I didn’t want to make a poll, so let's discuss it like that. :)
Imagine a hypothetical situation when some Genius Programmer created a program in his home that can fully qualify for the title of Artificial Intelligence. Actually, she is one of them, although she still does not know how to feel, but she thinks where to go. And so, at one fine moment, the Programmer decides to show it to the world. At the same time, he realizes that he will have to solve one important problem: How to give the world this knowledge? And here he has four options:
1. Put all the sources, documentation and other things on the Internet for free access.
Yes, knowledge is a damn important thing and they need to share with other people. Moreover, the knowledge of this kind. It will literally turn the whole world, but for the better or for the worse is not yet clear. After all, there will be people who will use it for evil. They can be military, hackers, just a bad shkolota. But that is not the point. We get a lot of AI, each of which knows a lot, plus something else that the masters will teach him.
2. To produce a well-protected proprietary product.
Our Programmer is a genius, so he managed to create such a protection, which is impossible to bypass (hack, decompile, repeat). He shares knowledge with others, and we are not interested, paid or free. The code is protected. The AI obeys the person to whom it belongs, but at the same time, is properly programmed from doing bad deeds. Programmed to work in a specific area and not able to work in another. It will not break websites, banks and launch nuclear warheads. It looks like the first option, but somehow calmer. Of course, people in black can appear who will start to break their fingers and burn their skin with a soldering iron to get the source code. Life is a cruel thing.
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3. Sell all at once to the highest bidder.
For example, Google or Yandex. Microsoft or Apple. Government or mafia. Establish your company. The result is that the AI owns one office, which gives access to it to third parties. Yes, there is only one AI for the entire planet. He is grandiose and can do almost everything. Of course, it will be called "Skynet."
4. Destroy the source code and forget about them for life.
It is possible and such. Maybe our Programmer has calculated the options and realized that the safest thing is not to give people such knowledge. Maybe he was scared of something. For example, AI uprisings or AI wars. It is an
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pulls out the hard drive and smashes it with a hammer.
What would you do on the programmer's place? Which option was chosen? Or maybe there are other ways?