Not really, they already have image input to it, and machine vision has been a thing for some time. Audio, too. In fact, computers could have better "senses" than people ever will, if you connect the right cameras, mics, and other sensors.
Let's hope they never come up with an "exterminate X race" virus, because regardless of who starts that war, nobody will be left to count the bodies in the end.
Maybe I'm wrong but those are numerical.
Yeah for the snakeoil guys
Sure, fair, but in this context saying "computers can only receive numerical data" is like saying "human brains can only receive bio-electrical impulses" ... like this is true, but misses the point I think.
To be simplistic I can talk with spouse, mentor, sibling, religious leader, politician, police, civil servant, etc to solve a problem. A rational or Platonic or didactic discussion can lead to multiple endpoints and decisions that are based, on speculation and trust.
Some ML models, like deep learning, are opaque - it's hard to determine why it makes the decisions it does. However, that doesn't imply we don't know how it works. We do indeed know how it works, down to every instruction in the software and how they are carried out in the hardware.
If there is an issue where you are a real whistleblower you can still go to a journalist and there are rules to help protect you if you are a whistleblower.
Here's the thing though - why would an AI (sentient or not) have any drives at all, including self-preservation?
AI is our baby, with our memes, it's also our future.
Or why won't it, if that was what is programmed to do. I think that is what people are are afraid of
One thing to me is people think of Ai as rational, but unencumbered by emotion and therefore having no ethics about anything. Yet without something I don't think Ai's will be effective. If people or any life form is fully rational only, it has no motivation to act at all. There is no "reason" to do anything. Animals, and people have emotions, instincts, drives which are not rational and that is what motivates them into action. Usually the motivations are to live, and procreate. Also your brain any brain is different depending upon its experience, its pains, its joys its physical conditions being intertwined with the physical world. People experience this aging. Your physical inputs alter your motivations and how you think. It even makes good sense because it prevents you becoming divorced from reality (in other words crazy). I think crazy Ai divorced from reality is what people fear. Yet I don't know if a highly self aware Ai is possible that way.
I don't buy it. Who would build a computer without a power switch? And if the sentient AI uses robots it controls to build their own expansion and power source (see D.F Jones novels), we can always send Tom Cruise in flying an old analog F16 and blow it to smithereens.
Great points... but my counter is that if we allow cheap and mass scale anonymity the whistleblowers will be drowned by bot armies. Russia and China will have the advantage to discredit the whistleblower and journalist with their own deep fakes.
By definition, we will never "understand" our subjective understanding - there is an unresolvable recursion here. At the same time, I will never know if you are already an AI avatar, or you if I am an AI avatar. The Turing test no longer works.
