Will Artificial Intelligence Understand “Greed”? - by Jeffrey Morton
We should question how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will deal with the issue of Greed when the time comes. Since Greed seems to be "hard-wired" into the human brain (and we will be the original creators of AI), will that trait also be intrinsic to the new intelligence past the point of Singularity? Another interesting question is if AI beyond Singularity will determine that Greed is less productive than cooperative resourcing. If this happens, what will AI think about mankind with all our flaws, and what will it decide to do with us? You might wonder “What does this have to do with me?” or “Why is this important?” The answer is that Artificial Intelligence will soon control many important aspects of our lives, and in fact, dictates a lot of things today in our lives. Most of the advertising you see as you surf the Net is determined by powerful algorithms that select the content that you will be interested in seeing. Cars and trucks will soon be driving themselves, and much ...