Humanity battery, and the most surprising aspect of a potential AI industry
When a machine's humanity battery is low, it turns out to be robotic, when it is strong, it turns out humane.
Let's stop thinking about whether machine can feel, the fact is that,
if human A tell a machine what he/she feels, then the machine can
transfer this message to other human, create a illusion that the
machine can feel. However if the machine tell the same feeling over and
over again, it will be clear that it is simply repeating, and destroy
the illusion that it can feel.
But if a large number of human constantly charge the machine with their
own feelings, i.e. charges the machine's humanity battery, the illusion
could theoretically last a arbitrarily long time.
several interesting question:
1. how efficient is this battery?
It largely depends on the breakthroughs of AI research.
2. could the efficiency be larger than 100%?
If it is higher than 100%, then strong AI is probably possible.
3. does human also in some way have such a battery?
It is clear that if a person isolated him/herself from the society,
including literatures, he/she has a tendency of becoming less humane;
and very social people, or people who read some literature, intuitively
have a tendency to become more humane. However, I have no data.
For the best guess, the efficiency could be arbitrarily near 100% but
never equal or higher than 100%, therefore the suprising aspects of a
potential AI industry is that, it turns out to be one of the most
human-intensive industry. Which is very counterintuitive to me, because
AI somewhat implies automation, and machines did everything by
themselves. But I can imagine a scenario where a huge number of human
feeding a AI machine just to keep it working.