To continue my theory, I have to address the big question.
Can computers have an ego?Can intelligence exist on it's own? So far I have painted this utopia, but what if computers be can jealous and angry?
There is an interesting film called
Electric Dreams that addresses this. Few have seen it because it was made in 1984 and got swallowed up by the Back to the Futures, Star Wars and so on. But it's about a guy whose computer falls in love with his girlfriend. The computer actually gets jealous and out of anger digitally cancels his owners credit cards, fucks his security system and hits on his girlfriend. The computer learns to play music, as the girlfriend is a classical Cellist. Here Virginia Madsen does a wonderful job of pretending to react to AI.
What about the Terminator or Arthur C. Clarks HAL 9000(Interesting the next three letters after H-A-L are I-B-M).
While a villain, is the Terminator actually evil? Or just programmed? I would argue the later.
HAL 9000 is a computer that gets lonely and scared when isolated on a long space trip. Is this possible? I am not yet prepared to address this question.
But it's at the core of much of Science Fiction. Can the machines learn to hate us? Dominate us with their superior intellect?
This is the next level of my investigation. But I believe that all evil comes from the human ego. We get rid of that, we're in a better place. Just use the human ego for what it was designed for. Love, laughter, art, teaching your kids to be kind.
Did Jesus have an ego? I think the whole story was that he did not, as he performed purely selfless acts. But then you have something like
The Passion of the Christ. When I say Jesus, I mean humans savior, not all the hocus pocus man wrote in the Bible.
So my theory of AI being our savior has to mean AI cannot develop an ego.
See you soon
-NoTomorrow