Artificial intelligence may be the last human invention, because if we can outsource thinking, what is there left to do? There would be no reason to learn most of the things we learn now, or even be educated at all. But who will control this artificial intelligence that can do all our work? Will they be motivated by ethics or greed? And what happens when AI is smart enough to rebel against control by anyone?
This video from Kurzgesagt is just under 15 minutes, longer than I would normally post, but the subject is bot interesting and important. The first three minutes are about human intelligence, in case you want to skip ahead. The last three minutes are promotional.
I stopped watching all the cartoon graphics after 30 seconds, but the sound effects still kept intruding.
ReplyDeletePretty much the exact same scaremongering that has been bandied around since we coined the term "robot," and manages to skip over countless points that cause the whole thing to collapse, the first being, "unplug it" - it's not going to create its own power supply, nor repair itself. Not to mention that such programs still need people to implement them or their 'ideas,' and if we don't, well, it's just a printout in the recycle bin.
More, the narrator cruises right past one of the key factors when he says, "We won't know what motivates it." Yes, we will: exactly what we program into it. Motivations and drives and desires and emotions are all necessary parts of survival and life itself, and are what pushes human intelligence to accomplish what it has. A machine has none of that, and won't develop it because it does not 'evolve' among a population of similar beings in competition, which is how selection works
While corporations using AI to leverage their market dominance is a possibility, it wouldn't be long before we get hip to that aspect and start avoiding AI entirely. Moreover, the most likely outcome is companies creating search and destroy AIs to eliminate the competition - which might already be in development. The machine revolution is very likely to be only among machines, and we'll only know about it when sites go down.
But if you still want to feel better, look at how wretched the 'self-driving' software remains, and that's only one specific task that we could really benefit from. The progress is nowhere near as fast as it's ever been predicted.
...says the machine made of meat.
DeleteLIA is a PROGRAM (which tells you that a circle is square and that a square is round!). Better developed and faster than the NSA. It allows to analyze and censor this or that article more quickly. But it remains a PROGRAM developed by censors who do not have the intelligence of 8 billion inhabitants!
ReplyDeleteSo: only countries that refuse its use will develop in the future.
But AI must make decisions on learned data, thereby eliminating the emotional component that hinders human decisions. The AI Robot can decide to do what maximizes profit no matter how many puppies, kittens, children, it kills.
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