Not quite. Counting AIs is much harder than counting people. An AI is neither discrete nor homogenous.
I think that it is most unlikely that the world could be controlled by one uniform, homogenous, intelligence. It would need to be at least physically distributed over multiple computers. It will not be a giant von-Neuman machine doing one thing at a time. There will be lots of subprocesses working somewhat independently. It would seem almost certain that they would eventually fragment to some extent.
People are not that homogenous either. We have competing internal thoughts.
Further, an AI will be composed of many components, and those components will compete with each other. Suppose one part of the AI develops a new and better theorem prover. Pretty soon the rest of the AI will start to use that new component and the old one will die. Over time the AI will consist of the components that are best at promoting themselves.
It will be a complex environment. And there will never be enough hardware to run all the programs that could be written, so there will be competition for resources.
Not quite. Counting AIs is much harder than counting people. An AI is neither discrete nor homogenous.
I think that it is most unlikely that the world could be controlled by one uniform, homogenous, intelligence. It would need to be at least physically distributed over multiple computers. It will not be a giant von-Neuman machine doing one thing at a time. There will be lots of subprocesses working somewhat independently. It would seem almost certain that they would eventually fragment to some extent.
People are not that homogenous either. We have competing internal thoughts.
Further, an AI will be composed of many components, and those components will compete with each other. Suppose one part of the AI develops a new and better theorem prover. Pretty soon the rest of the AI will start to use that new component and the old one will die. Over time the AI will consist of the components that are best at promoting themselves.
It will be a complex environment. And there will never be enough hardware to run all the programs that could be written, so there will be competition for resources.