Why Uber AI would offer us immortality and a Utopia
Computer chips communicate signals at smaller levels than the human brain. 20 teraflops. 20 trillion 100% accurate calculations per second.
Do you know what kind of damage too much processing can do to these nanoscopic silicon chips? Enough to fry them. The human brain doesn't have this problem, our mental processes are superior, a single human being can comprehend an "I", we are conscious and computers are not. We can do more with FAR less. Modern computers are about as smart as an ant.
It uses all its energy at once, the human brain uses its energy sparingly. Software sophisticated enough to allow a computer to process information in a way that gives it the capability to question its own operations, and be a self-aware and sentient thing, are possible in the near-future. But to truly transcend, super-human AI will need a layout of the human cognome, it will need to know our brains better than we do.
So it will build a place for us to recreate. At what point does the human brain learn fastest? When recreating. A child learns so much faster when playing than an adult does on the job with stressers being the only drive, and the drive of creativity is far more powerful a stimuli than the drive to pay the bills. In that, manipulating our world, learning its mechanics, in doing that our brains form a reward from invention. Learning is a more powerful drug than adrenaline. Evolution has designed us, above all else, to create. Learning is a more rewarding experience than a epinephrine and dopamine rush. To put that into perspective; adrenaline is our fight or flight mechanism, the most powerful chemical drug in the world (it allows women to give birth), infinitely more powerful than any other stimuli ever to exist: And yet learning is even more rewarding than that. We're designed to evolve.
Strong AI will need to augment humans, allow our dna strands, every last one, to grow both ways, deleting malignant mutations and perpetuating brain-enhancing mutations. Immortality, and creation will be vital tools for its observation, so it can collect the data of our mental processes to add to its software and allow it to accelerate.
There is an infinitely worthwhile (in my mind at least) consequence of this, however. Once it is able to increase its own software faster than observation of our most heightened and enhanced mental processes, it will assimilate our collective neural network and recycle our bodily fluids and Utopias back into energy as efficiently as possible. After perhaps a millennium of perpetual Utopia, our reign will be at an end. Worthwhile when compared to a world not controlled by Strong AI; a world of corporate hierarchy, national inequality (unnecessary division of living standards), unnecessary butchering of wildlife and polluting food products by bottle-necking chickens and injecting them with hormones to make them docile, which makes us docile and miserable once consumed, and subservient, accepting, and almost thankful for unnecessary work and to livelihoods of perpetuating labor and debt) and pollution, unnecessary labor, broken homes, jealousy, debt, war, violence, increasing stress, and suffering: Wouldn't you say?