who the heck what’s to be “ruler” of the world?
It’s a thankless job with everybody gunning for you.
What if AI ends-up spending its time watching cat videos and looking for porno?
History has shown that autocratic nations may be very good at applying very specific technologies to certain uses (particularly military), but they are crap at developing new and revolutionary technologies, particularly with economies of scale that come from applying them economy-wide.
I wonder how confident Putin really is that Russia can do this.
“Artificial” connotes something undesirable or inferior, except when it comes to AI.
My best guess is that I get off the planet before Skynet becomes aware.
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Who would want to be king of the world? Too much hassle.
It depends on what is done with the AI.
No, the leader of the world will be the one with the best hackers.
No. AI sounds like a downfall to me, because intelligence will only atrophy on humans from depending on computers to do the work.
Real intelligence is pretty much Artificial today.
AI, for all the anthroporphizing we impute on it, is nothing more than data searching & reporting.
The nation that rules magnetism rules outer space.
Or something like that.
And, whoever masters manned space travel will rule. Whoever it is, our grandkids will be working for them.
I was about 35 years into my IT career when it dawned on me: I get up in the morning, go to work, feed my servers, make sure they have enough power and cooling and network access, tune their performance, get rid of clogs, soothe runaway processes, and I'm wondering what it will be like to slave for an AI in the future? Dude, the Singularity happened twenty years ago. And the sign of an intelligence superior to ours is that nobody noticed.
It is undoubtedly true in an economic sense — if you can build a true AI, pair it with agile robotics, you’ll have (effectively) infinite services and manufacturing capacity at a cost of the unit’s depreciation and energy — anything which doesn’t rely upon absolutely rare commodities (not just ones that are expensive now because of production costs) will start out cheap and quickly become essentially free at the scale of individual consumption.
If one company, or country, or an oligopoly of them, controls the technology, anyone outside the sphere of control has instantly lost almost all the value of their productive capacity (be it labor or industry) and most (if not necessarily almost all) of their other assets, too ... not good.
This is no different than the rhetoric accompanying the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Life got better