Suppose you are a genius. You are good at everything you do. You are good at biology, physics, chemistry and math, even arts, essay writing and all that. What do you do ? What is your destiny ? How do you choose ?
Theoretically you are good at everything and given sufficient time and space you can be good at anything. So what do you do that satisfies you the most, given that your satisfaction is directly related to your professional success ?
Now assume you have a constructed a set of AI entities and ask them to gather information by crawling all data on the web. Will they not display similar characteristics as above. They will be equally inclined to dig all sort of information. Is it not for a system to survive ? or is it simply impossible to achieve ?
Going to the first argument if it is equally satisfying to do any particular thing, why not just choose any particular track and stick to it. But the next question is does life has a meaning in such a situation ? Again to the second argument, does an AI entity such as above will infer a meaning to its life if tasked with the above problem ? Can the AI be self aware than ?
What does an AI have to do in order to be self aware ? What logic circuit, what algorithm will give it so much power ? Lets say such an AI as above is crawling the web it comes across this post makes an inference of this one by comparing it with similar systems using a certain classification algorithm. It realizes that such a classification puts the system described here i.e. a self unaware AI that is capable of understanding every subject matter in this world, in its own category. In other words it finds that the system describes itself. Now it goes on and sees that it is self unaware as described above ... so what ? It is just a property of the system, it will add it to its several known properties and simply move on.
The point is knowing that if you are aware that you are unaware of your own purpose does not make your life purposeful. So such an AI cannot become self aware and cause Armageddon. In essence it needs some additional logic.
So what question do I pose to a genius (read AI) that it will help solve the dilemma of his/her/its life ?
