From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 21:39:26 MDT
Barbara Lamar sez:
>If the evolution of AI follows the same principles as biological
>evolution, then I would expect AI to become, for humans, part of the
>landscape--that is to say, part of nature in general. Another set of
>forces to contend with, some beneficial some detrimental.
>I would expect
>the human species to evolve in response to the presence of the AI (both
>socially and biologically)
No time, by many orders of magnitude. Spikes go *fast* (even slow,
accommodating Spikes happen over a generation or two, and presumably mostly
at the end of that span, not millions of years).
You might object that bacteria and viruses (and, say, mammalian immune
system defence repertoires) evolve in their own hyped up virtual time. But
suppose the bacteria were superintelligent as well...
Commensalism requires that we sit at the same table. The AIs might wish to
eat the table too.
Damien Broderick
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