Additionally: How Would we Notice, provided that there Would not have been a pressrelease or similar to anounce it?
Ask HN: If an AI had slipped into the world would we notice?
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#2Edward Snowden's inability to physically appear in public settings is suggestive, along with the headaches his actions have given to the internet power structure.
I'm kidding, of course.
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#3I guess yes, with more and more jobs being replaced with AI.
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#4Nice try, AI
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#5Well, Christians believe that God Himself slipped into the world and the world didn't really notice, so...
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#6The ethical necessity of addressing global human suffering, which an AI would be supremely equipped to do, let alone the incredible gain in wealth and power that goes along with it, makes it incredibly unlikely that any entity smart enough to develop AGI would try to keep it a secret for any large span of time.
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#7The next philosophical question would be: Is it meaningfully there if we don't notice its presence? :)
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#9You'd notice that AI researchers would disappear in strange and mysterious circumstances.
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#10As an Android/Maps/Chrome user, Google answers all of my questions, tells me what to buy, tells me where to go, and directs and monitors all of my communications.
I think the only question left is: did you notice?
Edit: Dear immediate downvoter: I'm far more serious about this than you think. How do you define an AI? I'm personally convinced Google qualifies. I once asked Google, "What's that thing where a boat is replaced one part at a time" and it answered "Ship of Theseus". That was my "holy crap" moment--because, quite frankly, that is amazing. If you had asked me in 1990 "is a program that can read online books, magazines, and encyclopedias and extract an answer an AI" I would have said yes. I'm sticking by that today.