Flying Cars
I know many, many people want flying cars to be a real thing. But, what is always going to prevent us from having true flying cars is, look at how people normally are with the cars on the ground. Drunk driving is tenfold going to be worse with flying cars, people are going to totally fly their vehicles into buildings, for sure. I think the closest we’re going to get to flying cars, is the hover cars we see in Back to the Future II that are more ground level, but hover. Even then, I don’t know if we’re ever going to be ready for them.
True AI
What I mean with True AI is an AI that can actually be a little more sentient and living than what we got now. When AI first rolled out, it really put a damper on everyone in so many ways that I don’t think we’re ever going to see it. There’s just too much at stake to trust an AI with the capability to think on its own and do things on its own. We’re just going to be stuck with Semi-AI that only talk back to you in text form and maybe help you code. And that alone already has ruffled the feathers of millions who are hating AI which is another thing to consider.
It’s just as likely any GAN, of which LLMs are largely a subset, which does cover nearly the entirety of what current ‘AI’ is, to develop into True AI as any given duck suddenly generating a metal xenon egg.
While certainly far be it from me to be the arbiter of what consciousness or even a replacement-level intelligence is, simple ‘neural’ networks and generative adversarial networks aren’t ever going to be more than simple machines. They’re great at generating chaos and deciding what is or isn’t close to what is not chaos, by the very narrow definitions that they are given, and with enough of them stacked I’m sure you can trick someone into believing they’re alive; but that’s still a far cry from being equivocal intelligence, or any kind of intelligence.
Cool. So its still feasible?
I mean still fuck me for thinking its feasible in the future while its not real and readily available at this exact moment, but its not definitively impossible.
We’d have to define the end goal clearly enough for it to be feasible. Is it possible for a machine to do every -action- a human is likely to do, as an imitation? Sure. We’re pretty close to that now.
Can we define consciousness or intelligence in a way that does not eliminate free will, so that we can build a machine that has either? That’s a much harder ask. Free will is the opposite of a deterministic universe, and if we’re in a deterministic universe then absolutely a machine can be made as good or better than a human, but we won’t have free will so whether or not we ever make that then depends on the starting conditions of the universe.
If we do have free will the question then becomes what gives us free will and can we recreate what gives us free will so we may impart it on others.