I followed the career path of computer programming.
University killed my pasion for it and I got a bare pass (however top of the entire dept for the one bit I was interested in - programming) on and off since I’ve wished I’d done a course on psychology. You see I’m fascinated by how the mind works and how it sometimes doesn’t work in spectacular ways.
I just now realized my interest in computing may have been influenced by a semi-subconcious desire to work in a field which aims to implement the workings and quirks of the humam mind in an artificial form (computers)
To put it into one sentence. I want to be the person that figures out how to create artificial intelligence.
Unfortunately, my career choice of caring for animals doesn’t go with my desire to go to culinary school. Well, it could but that’s not the kind of chef (or vet tech) that I want to be.
That’s exactly why I chose the dual-degrees that I did (CS and philosophy). Now I’m a grad student working in A.I.; I’m continually amazed at both how much and, at the same time, how little we know about how the mind works.
now that made me think of a question. Could you have a true artificial intelligence, if it had unbreakable parameters imposed on it’s behaviour? Is it any different to social conditioning of humans?
I’ve known people whose intelligence can only be called artificial (superficial?)
As a future madman physicist bent on world domination, I would point out that the creation of AI naturally leads to mankind creating something with a) a will to survive and dominate and b) the skills to eventually do so.
This is bad for humanity, I tell ya. Trust me, I know.
(superficial?)