That's not entirely true. There is a point, with the right kind of 'processing' that things become scentient. Indeed, intelligence is an emergent property, at the simplest level, human beings aren't thinking, nor are we creative, these things come out of the complexity in our brains.
The same is potentially true of computers and robots. A large enough collection of nodes in a neural network WILL become scentient. We don't have anything close to that level of power yet.
There are 2 kinds of potential AI in this context. The kind that is given all the potential options before hand, and the kind that will be able to learn it on it's own, most likely in the form of a neural network.
The first kind would be perfectly safe to turn into soldiers, they would be no different than a robotic arm in an esembly line.... Or one of those dancing robots. All the information is given to them, they may be using a finite state machine to pick what to do next, but this is fnely controled. They would be MORE RELIABLE than a human being. Just like a robot in a car assembly line.
The second kind, would not be. This kind would have a certain amount of 'free will' and could decide to kill all humans.
However.. I do believe that super-intelligent AI will one day be a requirement, without the history of violence that humans have, both historicly and geneticly, a properly taught AI system should be the ultimate peaceful being. These kinds of AI would potentially be capable of running all the little things in the background.. It would enable all humans to live in peace, without having to work..
The logistics of such a society aren't easy, I can't think of how you would deal with things like the criminal element and so forth.. But I'm sure it will be resolved.
We worry about some AI trying to kill us. We worry about HAL... But in 2010, they fixed HAL. It was a person that gave HAL conflicting orders. It was a HUMAN's fault. The AI worked exactly as expected. And later on, Saved everyone.
The same is potentially true of computers and robots. A large enough collection of nodes in a neural network WILL become scentient. We don't have anything close to that level of power yet.
There are 2 kinds of potential AI in this context. The kind that is given all the potential options before hand, and the kind that will be able to learn it on it's own, most likely in the form of a neural network.
The first kind would be perfectly safe to turn into soldiers, they would be no different than a robotic arm in an esembly line.... Or one of those dancing robots. All the information is given to them, they may be using a finite state machine to pick what to do next, but this is fnely controled. They would be MORE RELIABLE than a human being. Just like a robot in a car assembly line.
The second kind, would not be. This kind would have a certain amount of 'free will' and could decide to kill all humans.
However.. I do believe that super-intelligent AI will one day be a requirement, without the history of violence that humans have, both historicly and geneticly, a properly taught AI system should be the ultimate peaceful being. These kinds of AI would potentially be capable of running all the little things in the background.. It would enable all humans to live in peace, without having to work..
The logistics of such a society aren't easy, I can't think of how you would deal with things like the criminal element and so forth.. But I'm sure it will be resolved.
We worry about some AI trying to kill us. We worry about HAL... But in 2010, they fixed HAL. It was a person that gave HAL conflicting orders. It was a HUMAN's fault. The AI worked exactly as expected. And later on, Saved everyone.