Some questions

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf-9jLF6mIk

- When a question is presented to a form of Artificial Intelligence how can we be sure that it is being presented in the right way?  I mean is it ours or AI’s fault when we receive an unexpected and odd response-behavior? Are we doing the best in our capabilities to make sure that the information we want to be processed is being given to it in a form that it can deal with? Or do we look more and more like nannies and pops trying to change the channel on the television by hitting it on the side and screaming to it?

- In many tasks some kind of communication between different robots is required. Is that possible? Will we be able to intervene in this procedure in order to find out where a mistake is hidden or to instruct them when to stop? Will ‘their’ language be comprehensible from the human race? Or will they start preventing us from seeing their secrets?

-Is it possible for them to have free will? More importantly do we want them to have free will? Will we be able, at some point in the future, to defend our own free will against theirs? Or is their total liberation from our control a step toward a more prosperous living for all humankind? This last thought may need a bit more explanation. Let’ suppose that at some future moment the Singularity will be completed. After this moment the majority if not the whole number of important decisions will be taken from AI. In a way this might be in the best interest of humanity since all of our weaknesses, like greediness, lust, corruption, avarice and so on, will be removed from the decision making lobby. Therefore, supposing that this new form of power will be lacking our flaws, they should act in order to create a better future for everyone, including their ‘creators’. I hope they will all skip their human history classes…

- Will they have consciousness? Do we have consciousness? What is consciousness after all? I guess this whole quest on determining their capacity of being or not conscious might help us find a better answer for defining our own consciousness. I see it as a win-win situation.

- For my last question I am going to borrow a piece from a previous post :

‘’Premise 1: There will be AI (created by HI and such that AI = HI).

Premise 2: If there is AI, there will be AI+ (created by AI).

Premise 3: If there is AI+, there will be AI++ (created by AI+).

Conclusion: There will be AI++ (= S will occur).’’

These are the steps leading to the completion of the Singularity. Now what seems really interesting to me is speculating at which point in this chain, they will gain free will and consciousness. I hope this will not happen during phase one since it would mean they would inherit all of our wrongs. I believe the flipping point will be right after phase two when they start overcoming our capabilities and start shaping the future. This might sound a bit pessimistic but humankind seems more and more like an aging species waiting to be substituted and saved by a more advanced one. Or to put it in a more accurate way waiting to lay the foundations of a more advanced species.