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Ask HN: Could AI Eventually Build God?

4•olirex99•56m ago

If a less intelligent species, like humans, is able to create a more intelligent species (like AGI), does that mean that at some point a species will be able to build the most intelligent species possible and essentially build God?

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fuzzfactor•32m ago

If experience is any indication, some people would worship it regardless if it was artificial or not.

Some seem to already be doing so, especially the ones whose prayers are being answered :)

olirex99•27m ago

Also the definition of artificial will not make sense at all at a certain point. If for example AGI builds a more intelligent species, could we define it “artificial”?

JohnFen•31m ago

Define "god"

olirex99•29m ago

The plateau of intelligence. And now you could ask me to define intelligence and I would stick with the common definition:

Intelligence is the mental capacity to learn, understand, reason, and solve new problems.

krapp•15m ago

No matter how smart AI gets, it's still a product of the physical universe and thus bound to physical laws and limits. It cannot be infinitely intelligent, it cannot be all-powerful, it cannot transcend physical reality. It cannot be considered a god in any sense that humanity has ever defined such a being.

All AI can ever be, and should ever be considered to be, is really smart software. A tool. A thing that serves humans. Not a god, which by definition is a being that humans serve.

olirex99•6m ago

I define God as the plateau of intelligence. You maybe haven’t understood my question, but I am asking we are living in a more brother loop in which less intelligent species build more intelligent species. If the answer is yes, would this mean that AI species will build at a certain point (self-improving) another kind of species?

PS: I know that I use species improperly.