JustCode 源码随笔-09

Attempt at creating AI surpass ChatGPT – 06
尝试创造能超越ChatGPT的人工智能 – 06

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上一篇简要表述了对人工智能可能的重大弱点的担忧,然而从严谨的角度看待,上一篇的担忧缺乏严密逻辑的支持,最关键的一点,那就是笔者无法跳脱人类社会来完全客观的看待人工智能与人类社会的关系,打个比方,做科学实验的时候,一般都要保证实验人员不会干扰或受实验受试对象环境干扰,以保证实验的客观性,也就是实验人员要完全站在第三者观察角度来做实验,同样,要弄清楚人工智能和人类社会的关系,最少不能让自己受人类社会观念等的干扰,而这显然不可能。

所以,如果想实现纯粹观察者的视角,一种想法是观察地球上其他物种和人工智能共生的场景,显然这不现实,毕竟地球上还未发现除了人类还能创造某某智能的物种。

因此,另一种想法,可能是一种比较现实的出路,但有一个前提需要达成,那就是存在外星文明。

然而,这种想法,意味着人类需要主动和外星人交流,未知可能性太多,很可能人类是不愿冒这个风险的。也就是说,这种想法虽然现实些,但聪明的外星人可能会更方便地看穿人类。

难道没办法了么?不,还有个办法,那就是在外星文明察觉不到人类的存在的前提下观察外星文明。虽然这么做的难度相当大,但如果成功了,人类从这些观察中能学到非常宝贵的经验,举个简单的例子,被观察的外星文明与外星人工智能高度共生的话,我们完全可以照着外星文明的样板发展人类的人工智能,以避免走很多代价高昂的弯路。通过观察外星文明,过去我们很多不确定的理论假设,或许反而能轻易证明其有效性等,人类也能从另一个视角感悟这个世界,也会更清楚自己在宇宙中的意义。

然而,这个看似取巧的办法,也许聪明的外星人早就猜到了。此刻,或许某个外星文明正在看着这篇文章,分析人类的发展进度呢。当然希望外星文明是善良的,也许有的外星文明只是单纯地想找个同伴一起探索宇宙边界呢?

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The previous passage briefly expressed concerns about the potential major weaknesses of artificial intelligence. However, from a rigorous perspective, the concerns in the previous passage lack rigorous logical support. The most crucial point is that the author cannot detach themselves from human society to objectively examine the relationship between artificial intelligence and human society. To draw an analogy, in scientific experiments, it is generally essential to ensure that experimenters do not interfere with or are not influenced by the environmental factors affecting the subjects of the experiment, in order to maintain the objectivity of the experiment. In other words, experimenters must adopt a third-party observer perspective to conduct experiments. Similarly, to understand the relationship between artificial intelligence and human society, one should at least try not to be influenced by human societal norms and concepts, which is evidently impossible.

So, if one wants to achieve a purely observer’s perspective, one idea is to observe scenarios where other species on Earth coexist with artificial intelligence. However, this is clearly unrealistic, as there is no species on Earth known to create intelligence comparable to that of humans.

Therefore, another idea, which might be a more realistic way forward, is contingent on the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations.

However, this idea implies that humans need to actively communicate with extraterrestrial beings, and there are too many unknown possibilities. It is very likely that humans would be unwilling to take such risks. In other words, while this idea may be more realistic, clever extraterrestrial beings might easily see through human intentions.

Is there no other way? Well, there is another option: to observe extraterrestrial civilizations under the condition that they are unaware of humanity’s presence. Although this would be extremely challenging to accomplish, if successful, humans could gain valuable insights from these observations. For example, if the observed extraterrestrial civilization has a high degree of symbiosis with artificial intelligence, humans could use their model to develop their own artificial intelligence, thus avoiding many costly pitfalls. By observing extraterrestrial civilizations, many of our past uncertain theoretical assumptions might be easily validated, and humans could gain a different perspective on the world and a clearer understanding of their place in the universe.

However, this seemingly clever approach may have already been anticipated by intelligent extraterrestrial beings. At this moment, perhaps some extraterrestrial civilization is reading this article, analyzing the progress of human development. Of course, we hope that extraterrestrial civilizations are benevolent, and maybe some of them simply want to find companions to explore the boundaries of the universe together.