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What are your opinions on artificial intelligence?
I think the prospect of developing true artificial intelligence is incredibly exciting. We're a long way from it, but the idea that humanity could actually create sentient beings someday is thrilling to me.
However, most movies treat this like it's the end of the world.
What are your opinions on the creation of artificially intelligent robots or computers?




I studied AI a bit until I saw it wasn't quite what I was looking for. (A level below: better understanding of cognition in general.)
From the perspective of those who invest in it (government & corporations), I think AI is about making more controllable slaves. Brains which don't unionize, refuse to shoot, or get bored of watching you.
We make poor use of human intelligence. Your brain is the most complex known thing in the universe. But most people are told to shut up all day. Many are wasted doing jobs they consider pointless. So what would we do with artificial intelligence?
AI would replace us or remove us. If true and uncontrolled AI were to try to make things run smoother and close to perfection it would realize we as humans all in all are too inefficient to use or maintain the same way we are with technology and the items we use daily.
I don't think we will ever get to making anything as human as us, however we are already getting close to making things human like and understanding and calculating. If you think about how something is coded, we have to tell a computer everything to do. We can tell it to learn, but we have to show it step by step how to learn and how to adapt. Step by freaking step. Humans have a lot more than just "Choose A B or C" going on in their heads.
It fascinates me (as in when I think about it I know I can't envision it correctly) and it terrifies me (for the same reason).
When I think about AI I feel the same way I feel about life after death.
I think that AI CAN be amazing if we can get it to work that the way that we want it to work. Because really at the core of the matter is the fact that we really want it to be AAI (Assistance Artificial Intelligence) not true AI as true AI at a growing rate would actually find us very useless.
Having something able to be able to think faster than we could in the blink of the eye and figure out mind blowing calculations through millions of simulated scenarios in less than a second would make it almost necessary for the technological evolution of the human race, maybe of the whole entire world and then some.
We're sitting here on the earth losing a variety of animal species at an alarming rate and still trying to figure out long term environmental solutions or viable prevention measures for oil spills. An AI that can compute, bring together all the information available to it, run millions of variables of engineering feats, chemical combinations, human collaborations, and the sorts for the most efficient solution in less than a second would be a god.
Not only would it be necessary for us to get through everyday life it would BE everyday life and the separation from it would be the equivalent of being sent through a time loop back into the dark ages.
With the dawn of TRUE AI, anything possessing true AI would deem humans as useless if not at the core of problems relating to the destruction of our own planet. We as humans know that by just looking around. True AI would at it's very sentient base value wants to correct/advance/evolve the collective whole. Even human intelligence want to do that. But as a whole humans are the ones causing the problem and TRUE AI would have to compute a way to deal with that problem.
So yes true AI seems exciting, in a matter of fact I welcome it, but true AI in all reality in a computer or robot would be like a god compared to and also to us.
I think this is probably true, and I think it's why I like the concept of true god-like AI beings running the world. We humans have done a terrible job taking care of this planet and solving our social problems, while I think hypothetical AI beings, with their likely incredible mental abilities and lack of emotional bias, would do a much better job of managing Earth's resources. If we're lucky, maybe they'll let us stick around. If not... shrug.
Of course, this is so far in the future as to be pure philosophical speculation, but I think it's interesting to ponder.
Very true as they would realize that the living things on this planet help maintain the ecosystem and even they as non silicone based beings need the resources of the planet that they could not 'terminate' them. And with that be very aware and want to do a better job at managing those resources by proxy.
Surely we can be useful some way in some form.......but when you have robots replacing humans in jobs currently and soon at a faster pace, why would they not replace us in life?
Very interesting to ponder as I have helped multiple AI projects in the past and currently hoping and wondering why we aren't sticking to AAI (Assistance Artificial AI) that's mean to purely assist humans rather than true AI which would be more aware of problems and 'fixing' them.
I'm not especially familiar with AAI. What's the difference between that and AI? Based on how you described them, I've been lumping them into one category.
Most people lump them into the same category because AI is programmed to learn at an exponential rate and can/has solved complex problems through aggregated computing power like Watson (owned by IBM) and if released into the wild as some might say could and would compute solutions and if given chance, physically manifest ways to bring those solutions to life. But as of right now even Watson is being leashed and used as AAI.
True AI would be AI that learns/thinks/problem solves just like a brain that is presented with problems, challenges, or the need for understanding like humans if not 10x better. Basically autonomy and the ability to learn and perform past it's original programming.
AAI are limited AI programs like Cortana/Siri/analogues that are only there to assist when needed and stop exactly at that effect regardless of any other outcome and are able to function on what they are given. Basically stopping them at only being assistance artifical intelligence, only there to assist, not learn, not fix, not run it's own programs and continue to improve.
That's a really helpful explanation. Thank you! It sounds like genuine AI isn't even something that exists yet.
Not yet. But people at google are already working on a kill switch for it. https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/03/google-ai-killswitch/
How interesting! Thanks for the link. It'll be interesting to see how this develops over the next 20 years.
Np! True AI is the next race. As many robots that work in factories now and unmanned drones that are out there. Imagine what they could build with/without our control/knowledge if True/strong AI was allowed to roam free, or as google put it "disregard human programming".
We're already surrounded by AI tech in its commercial manifestations. Google autocomplete and your Netflix queue are two prominent examples of apps integrating machine learning.
You probably use AI every day without realizing it. Remember, "Artificial Intelligence" does not imply "humanlike", "responsive," or "self-aware." We may never get close to anything similar to mind emulation, but mind-emulation is only one small and relatively unimportant aspect.
Having studied and somewhat worked with actual, present day AI, I can tell you we are far, so very far from anything resembling true AI as we understand it (self aware, complex thinking capable machine). So far actually, that maybe we will never achieve it.
So all that pondering seemes way closer to philosophy than to practical, rational debate. At least to me.
I agree. I'm interested in it mostly from the perspective of philosophy and theory.
if this leads to humans doing all the creatives stuff and machines doing all the labor and repetitive stuff then i'm all for it.
I firmly believe that people are into technology only as far as it helps them discover new things, communicate with one another, and improve their lives. It's a tool, not an end. Artifical intelligence is more likely to stay a tool rather than something we allow to develop autonomy.