The Dead Internet Theory.

[BIAD]

Michigan Swamp Buck

Or AI is just as alive as you or me? Something I'm not willing to believe yet...

The computer processor does math that directs the commands of a program. Those commands are numerous sub routine programs that do things like, use input, make output and go to areas of memory. These programs, made by humans, are more like instinct than intelligence. Something stimulates the AI program that processes the input and reacts to it.

Now, if human intelligence is a natural progression from instinct to intelligence, then perhaps the same is true for AI and it is on it's way to real intelligence. What I am somewhat worried about is when the AI program builds it's own sub routine programs for some purposes we can't understand. At that point it may have evolved enough to be considered intelligent and capable of making it's own decisions. This is a scary thought I have that I sometimes entertain.

I agree, we're currently (hopefully!) still in the 'Magic-Eight Ball' setting in regards of the processes A.I performs. But if it
ever comes to generating a perception or a strata of emotionally-variable integrity within a computer system, HAL may
not have the tolerance we humans have about how we conduct ourselves on this planet.