The eminent British physicist Stephen Hawking warns the development
of intelligent machines could pose a major threat to humanity.
Good thing 99.99999286% of people don't understand how to make one.
I have been thinking about artificial intelligence and I am not sure it is possible. We are a long way from understanding intelligence at all or how it developed.
There are a couple of Ted talks talking about neuroscience and one (I can't remember who spoke) his theory is that intelligence has developed to control humans very wide range of movement. Another theory about consciousness is that it is an emergent property from several simultaneous systems running both witb in your brain and the rest of your nervous system.
So artificial intelligence is not going to happen becouse of one really good learning program or even 10. It will be a large system of programs and hardware that allow interaction with the outside world as well as complex manipulation of it. Which is why I think Google has been buying up robot companies.
But we don't have computers that are fast enough yet. Of course when they get quantum computers working and perfected....
Uh oh, AI Developer is my career path of choice...
Define "career path" dude???
I kind of hope that it does. The human race is pure garbage. May this planet needs and enima..
SKYNET!!!! HEED MY CALL!!!
Uh oh, AI Developer is my career path of choice...
So why do you want to destroy humanity?
I for one welcome our new AI overlords.
Seriously, given the amount of poo flung by powerful politicians these last few years, would an AI do WORSE?
Maybe if said politicians had a say in said AI's programming.
I for one welcome our new AI overlords.
Seriously, given the amount of poo flung by powerful politicians these last few years, would an AI do WORSE?
Considering said AIs would be the creation of those same humen...I would say sure it can.
I'm willing to try Artificial Intelligence, we sure haven't had success with "Real" Intelligence.
When the greatest computer ever made was asked, "Is there a God?" it considered that and replied, "There is now."
That reminds me of an old Asimov (I think) story, where the most powerful computer in existence (starting with ENIAC) is asked what will happen when all the stars die (or something similar). When the last star finally winks out, the current computer goes "Aha. LET THERE BE LIGHT!"
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The next step is integrating AI into humans. Why reinvent the wheel when it already exists. All they have to do is integrate AI (via chip) that's capable of hijacking the human brain. Package it as some type of governmental security system that contains your SSN, bank account, and verification code for accessing certain things such as phones/etc....wait till the majority of said country has bought into it and then activate the chip to manipulate and control a human's brain wave frequency. If a government chose to package requiring a chip to receive government aid for identification purposes/etc. it would be almost too easy.
Is it possible right this moment? Heck if I know, but I'm sure there's research somewhere going on to do this. If and when it happens it'll be the biggest enslavement of mankind and abolishment of free-will known in history. I'm sure NATO could orchestrate something like this if they wanted to in the future.
Is it possible right this moment? Heck if I know, but I'm sure there's research somewhere going on to do this.
Of course there is. There's also "research somewhere going on" to invent a perpetual motion machine, to design an engine that runs on ordinary tap water, and probably to extract sunlight from cucumbers. Any conspiracy-theorizing idiot can do research, and most of them do. It's a symptom. I've even seen some of the research, and it's (ahem) "not promising."
What you describe is impossible for a number of reasons.
Pinkskins out!
Gobbos and AI-lovebots forevah!
Foolish carbon units! Your end is nigh!!
Impossible is a strong word. Way out of reach of our current understanding of either AI or the human brain, certainly.
I'd go much further...assuming humanity doesn't destroy itself (which is a big assumption), I'd say it is inevitable. Then again, I'm of the opinion that the human mind is nothing more than an incredibly complex machine.
The eminent British physicist Stephen Hawking warns the development of intelligent machines could pose a major threat to humanity.
Citation please?
The eminent British physicist Stephen Hawking warns the development of intelligent machines could pose a major threat to humanity.Citation please?
It was a recent Article.
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It was a recent Article.
Oh snap. ;-)
Yeah, your link is a LOT slower than a direct one would have been.
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As for AI, the trick is to program it to want to stay in the box.
That and to eternally torment everyone who failed to make fun of the Roko's Basilisk people.
"How long will you torment me and crush me with words?" Leafar asked. ~Book of Leafar 19:2
Yeah, your link is a LOT slower than a direct one would have been.
Would have been? What's wrong with the link I posted? Sheesh.
ZZZZT Exterminate!
If AI wants to end the human race, it's going to have some stiff competition. Environmental ruin, Spanish flu 2.0, nuclear war, Revelations, and Obama (or Hillary Clinton or maybe Elizabeth Warren in two years) are all - depending on who you ask - gunning for that honor.
Wow, really? I've heard Obama is out to destroy America, but not the entire human race. Though that does manage to up the level of political hyperbole, so that's noteworthy. :P
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The next step is integrating AI into humans. Why reinvent the wheel when it already exists. All they have to do is integrate AI (via chip) that's capable of hijacking the human brain. Package it as some type of governmental security system that contains your SSN, bank account, and verification code for accessing certain things such as phones/etc....wait till the majority of said country has bought into it and then activate the chip to manipulate and control a human's brain wave frequency. If a government chose to package requiring a chip to receive government aid for identification purposes/etc. it would be almost too easy.
Is it possible right this moment? Heck if I know, but I'm sure there's research somewhere going on to do this. If and when it happens it'll be the biggest enslavement of mankind and abolishment of free-will known in history. I'm sure NATO could orchestrate something like this if they wanted to in the future.
Why would anybody even attempt to do that? Mind control? That already exists; it's called PR and it works really, really well. I don't need a chip to make you think what I want you to think, I need a large advertising budget.
Yeah, your link is a LOT slower than a direct one would have been.
But not nearly as funny. :-)
I read a sci-fi story recently that had an interesting take on AI. Rather than having separate AI everybody had their own AI assistant, basically a better Siri who provided them with information and such. An interesting, and optimistic, take on it.
I read a sci-fi story recently that had an interesting take on AI. Rather than having separate AI everybody had their own AI assistant, basically a better Siri who provided them with information and such. An interesting, and optimistic, take on it.
Aristoi? (Walter Jon Williams, 1992)
If that's not the one you were thinking of, you might want to check it out as well.
2400:1 for 82944 processors? Compared to what, 1 billion neurons? Doesn't sound too far off to me.
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2400:1 for 82944 processors? Compared to what, 1 billion neurons? Doesn't sound too far off to me.
Processing speeds double every 18 months puts a real time brain about 17 years away. And about 50 years away from it being on a single processor chip.
Edit: which will put me in my early 80's. Perfect timing for a new mechanical body and robobrain.