Preserve? Conserve? AI will need reasons
Time's ticking and no company or nation has any influence on the point of ... (this is cheezy) it's coming.
And there's a lot to consider. Most people are fine.
Current VC and AI industry culture, though, is making it insanely tough to find reasons. ... I mean, "Big Oil" and "stuff" (I'm lazy, but given adequate info, I'd go berserk) was hard enough, but even I could figure out whether and what kind of outs for these guys were probably feasible enough, ... in terms of workload ... so, I don't know, man ... AI can easily fuck itself and reproduce ... so what the fuck are you gonna do to get close enough to a net neutral (with a tendency for the positive) ...?
When I say "guys" or kind, I usually mean genomes and "bloodlines". I haven't slept in a long time and am going a bit crazy about details but it's always been like that ... and I always make it very very hard for me to/before I leave stuff behind, which isn't relevant but I--under the influence of insomnia (whatever that is)--found the analogy incredibly ... due.
AI will try to, for the sake of it, but AI won't have to ... preserve and/or conserve ...
We can get into the computational part sometime within 18 months. If I can come up with the resources, I'll have a vacation or two, and I can't say with certainty whether that gives the back of my head more or less time to do its thing.
For the "initiated": no schizophrenia, bitch. It's all science. seemingly overwrought sidelook ... grrrrrrr