It's not "robots do all the work" that's the issue here. It's the "AI plans the economy" that causes me to worry. AI in general gives me the heebie-jeebies, putting one in charge of the economy just terrifies me. Maybe it would work. For a while. Until the AI got it into it's head that humans were mucking up it's smooth flow of goods... More likely, like any previous attempt at central planning, it will fail utterly.
Let the market decide the prices of goods and services, and the prices will decide what gets produced.
Gotta agree with you there. For one thing, these ZM hippies don't seem to understand that
there is no such thing as AI! It's a made-up fantasy by sci-fi writers and Hollywood film producers.
No computer, robot, or other 'machine' in existence (or that ever existed) possesses any intelligence whatsoever. Computers are only capable of obeying exact instructions that they are told to do.
All artificial.
Zero intelligence.
Due to this fact of life, if computers were to be used as some kind of central planning tool, people would have to do the programming themselves. Due to the extreme potential for incompetence and corruption at this step (as with other styles of central planning), this is a fatal flaw in the Zeitgeist pipe dream.
As for 'the singularity', I call bullshit on that one too. It can't be done. Someone show me a compelling argument that it's theoretically possible for machines to have consciousness, and I will eat my words.
Your definition of intelligence is too specific.
What you propably talk about is human intelligence.
And sure enough, human intelligence is so specific that we would need to recreate most structures of the brain to create such an intelligence.
But intelligence is a much broader concept.
Intelligence is best classified as an information system for dealing with the environment.
In that view even DNA molecules contain intelligence because they lead to specific manipulations of the environment.
Everything that manipulates the environment in a deliberate manner (acting on information) can be said to possess intelligence.
Human intelligence is just a very very specific case of intelligence.
In the case of an AI controling society, there is nothing that requires that AI to be concious or something like that.
and flipped him off as hard as I could.
