>Maybe our first AGI is just a Petri dish brain with a half-decent python API.
https://www.oddee.com/australian-company-launches-worlds-fir...
the entire idea feels rather immoral to me, but it does exist.
https://www.oddee.com/australian-company-launches-worlds-fir...
the entire idea feels rather immoral to me, but it does exist.
Immoral by slippery slope is not a reasonable or rational argument. You're acting like nobody would have any qualms with it being a full sized human brain instead of a thousand neurons on a tiny plate.
It's an emotional reaction to an impression of these scientists that strips them of human decency or agency. There's nothing inevitable about this abusive idea you've concocted, and the only inevitability would come if each of the hundreds of scientists involved were some sort of psychopathic sadists with no regard for _any_ human life.
There's nothing immoral about cells in a petri dish, and there's absolutely no reason to assume that it directly leads to a fully enslaved in-vitro human.