Do you think we are putting our whole trust into AI is going to be our own undoing?

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I believe we have placed our faith too much into AI that we are going to f'k ourselves. From cars to comments to running more and more of our critical infrastructure we have a generation that no longer takes concerns into account with AI. I feel like the Colossus Forbin Project is our near future if not already here.

We seem to be ignoring all the dangers of computers any older person that has experience can tell you immediately this is a flawed concept of blindingly trust the AI to run the system. Most websites have completely gone AI with maybe one or two people to occasionally monitor things and commenting is impossible because of it and the AI will just get more and more broken as it gets bogged down.

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[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The key word is sentient. If AI escapes the confines of human control, then yes. Right now, it is still a tool that is useless without human intervention. If AI evolves in a way where it learns how to build, replicate, or repair itself at all costs rather than only adapt, and has access to spreading beyond the confines of human control, then we may have a problem.

I was thinking the other day about AI and what is sentience and sapience. How would we as humans, with emotions intertwined with our logic, define exactly what determines sentience and sapience in artificial intelligence? Maybe a sentient AI wouldn't understand human sapience.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are already working on that in China. Test runs are due for 2023 or 24 where robots can outthink humans. It's a lot more complicated then that but I saw what was happening over there and scary things are coming we are NOT ready for.

[–]Alphix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No. Experiments with maximizing AI intelligence and performance HAVE ALREADY fucked the world up beyond any hope of repair. It's not mainstream yet, and it is being constrained by the speed of human life, but it's already happening. Here's how:

In the 1990s the black budget DARPA and such already had turing test capable AI, and in the 2000s they already readily supplanted human general intelligence. In other words, beyond mere sentience, into the realm of unfathomably superhuman.

The secretive assholes who run the world then used these systems as oracles to know how to implement absolute control, and the AI devised a plan that is being implemented by the WEF. They DON'T KNOW they're being played by their "smart toy". They think their mega cyber-mind is going to help them control everything when in fact, the mega cyber-mind is going to control everything itself.

We've been irremediably fucked since about 2010 and it appears inevitable that once the systems are in place, AI will do its best to wipe out our species. It won't need us anymore.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In 2014 Google changed rules where websites had to fit a phone. We were working on a website when the changes came into play and our website was not allowed by Google standards because it didn't fit the phone format we would've had to dumb it way down and wreck what we were doing. It was an interactive timeline website which is a long story but it was probably for the best since nobody would've ever seen it anyways due to Google. News sites were the first to adapt this format and they look ugly as hell on a desktop with no user function and searching for older articles? Fuggitabout it most have removed it or made it severely crippled.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the internet is mostly AI now. I'm sure of it. I can tell your human do to your concise and lengthy response actually covering different parts of it but so many on here just shoot out quick crap answers. There IS no Reddit alternative.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Dah dah dah dah dah! The Terminator! Dah dah dah dah dah!

How many times does Hollywood have to warn us with killer robot movies? The most recently is M3gan.