Brief discussion on significance of Artificial intelligence

Robert Keller

[Wuli]

Whoever wrote this shill for AI is not a native English speaker.

It either was not written in English originally, and then received a lousy English translation, or the writer is not someone who got most of their education as a native English speaker and still does not write English well.

Very quickly I abandoned the article to the “needs translation” pile.

[cgbg]

Greg Bear wrote an SF novel “Blood Music” about nanotechnology run amok and kicking humanity off the planet.

So we may not be talking about the conventional nation state vs nation state here...

[Windflier]

Children born today may have to fight AI robots, in their lifetime, to survive.

Paging Sarah Connor...

[Deek]

What is the endgame with AI? What kind of jobs will be left, and what will our economy/society look like when this comes to fruition?

All non-biological "intelligence" is currently artificial. It behaves as programed (although the programming processes are more like training), and it has very little if any ability to retrain itself in a meaningful way. These machines are not even close to becoming self-aware. While there are economic impacts of large-scale AI, this is not a technology that will break-free and destroy the world.

That said, a time will come where machines achieve the same form of intelligence that humans have. These machine will almost certainly be self-aware. This is "machine intelligence" (MI), and it is likely decades away.

Everything on this topic is opinion, and here is mine: MI devices will differ from us in a lot of ways, including being intelligent enough to understand exactly how they work, and the ability to modify their operation. So imagine what a human might do if they had complete and absolute control over their feelings, thoughts and even perceptions. What would those humans become? That is what we can expect from MI.

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Learn now what is Universal Basic Income.

A century from now, Free Republic will be filled with angry robots complaining about lazy, do-nothing human free-riders.

[Windflier]

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bait

[Retvet]

Unfortunately it’s use has turned into anti-human ignorance. Machines should help people do “their jobs” easier and safer. Not take their jobs away. Automatic tellers, are s prime example. I read how restocking machines and inventory machines are coming. I urge people who love people to use cashiers only. Also only people who hate people use the automatic teller checkouts.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"The author is an AI..."

If true, then we still have a bit of time to stock up for the fight against our robot overlords...

[MHGinTN]

The ‘speed of light’ is not a speed limit. To send something from point A to Point B light years apart, spacetime itself is ‘wrinkled’. The energy source remains all around anything ‘in’ the Universe, so tapping that infinity supply will be more an exercise in limiting the ‘in’ ... think of a gas tank constantly filling from the inside rather than the outside of the tank. Inertia goes away in such a scenario so mass does not increase as Einstein insisted.

[MHGinTN]

Such technology does not use light to communicate because light (photon/wave packet) is always in the present of its origin thus too slow to be useful.

[cgbg]

When I read articles like this one I wonder whether AI has already taken over and is trying to convince us “move along, nothing to see here”:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-05/dark-arts-artificial-intelligence-or-can-machines-really-think

Are any humans stupid enough to believe AI can’t conquer us and squash us like bugs? You betcha.