Interesting but I'm wondering if the last part there is something being overlooked:
> “As long as computers do not physically reproduce themselves, humans will remain the principal and control the behaviors of computers with AI, just like the brain is unable to replicate itself and, as result, continues to function as an agent for the genes,” Lee writes.
I think there are sci-fi stories with AI self-replicating in software, not in hardware. I wonder if this was considered by the author. Surely there can be an AI with its own goals and ability to self-replicate at the software level like a computer virus, in theory. Current AI does not have this architecture though, it is only a static program, but it could be something that is constantly running like service and along with it the goal to spread itself across computers and networks.
> “As long as computers do not physically reproduce themselves, humans will remain the principal and control the behaviors of computers with AI, just like the brain is unable to replicate itself and, as result, continues to function as an agent for the genes,” Lee writes.
I think there are sci-fi stories with AI self-replicating in software, not in hardware. I wonder if this was considered by the author. Surely there can be an AI with its own goals and ability to self-replicate at the software level like a computer virus, in theory. Current AI does not have this architecture though, it is only a static program, but it could be something that is constantly running like service and along with it the goal to spread itself across computers and networks.