Posted on 03/20/2018 3:56:24 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day. While we have a long way to go before robots become self-aware, any robot that comes to know it's a robot could kick off the machine uprising that so many science-fiction dystopias warn about. Fortunately, there might be another way — at least according to renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.
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"Robots are pretty stupid now. However, eventually they'll be as smart as a mouse, then a rat, then a rabbit, then a cat, then a dog. By the end of the century, they may be as smart as a monkey," Michio Kaku told us on the Curiosity Podcast. "But by end of the century, yeah, Elon Musk is right. They could become self-aware. At that point they're dangerous."
Dr. Kaku was referring to the alarming predictions about AI expressed by Elon Musk, who that feels artificially intelligent machines could threaten the human race in the future. Mark Zuckerberg, however, has differing views on AI. He's more optimistic, saying they'll be a boon for business in the near future. "I think both are right," Kaku offered. "I think Zuckerberg is right initially, in the short-term, because AI will give us prosperity, jobs, will reinvigorate the economy. In the long-term, however, we have to realize that we can't be naïve."
And if robots become self-aware in the next hundred years, as he predicts, then being naïve could make humans go the way of the dinosaurs (hint: they're extinct). Enter the future of the human race. "Let's take a look not at this century, but the next century, the 22nd century, when we do have self-aware robots," Kaku said.
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With his chin in the air like that Dr. Frankenstein reminds me of Barak Obama!
“self-aware”...
I don’t think that means what you think it means.
I love it!
A lot can happen in a century.
My thoughts exactly. Hopefully, resistance isn’t futile.
Just another reason Silicon Valley is a hard place to work
I’ve watched half a century go by.
I’ve watched AI go from “Game of NIM” to Watson, Siri & Alexa take IQ tests.
I’ve studied AI as a bright-eyed software engineer.
AI, as we do & will know it, is nothing more than searching data graphs for an objective criteria - a mechanical process.
That’s. It.
“Self-aware robots” aren’t happening with the technology we have, nor will have in the next 100 years.
They may become staggeringly efficient in searching vast data for complex criteria.
They will NOT be “self aware”.
Sex robots are coming.
Isaac Asimov wrote the series “Foundation” which depicted the rise of and rejection of androids in Earth’s future.
Even with his belief the end would be utopian, I rejected it because a wise and benevolent droid saves humanity by turning us into a symbiotic universe without individuality. Daneel the droid of note and another, Gaskin changed the laws of robotics on there own to better the good of their humans. Oh yeah, Daneel perfect himself by merging with a human child.
I believe there is a quantum-mechanical element of consciousness/self-awareness that can never be recreated on a computer.
Just as quantum phenomena require a conscious observer, a conscious observer requires quantum phenomena.
Indeed.
Lots of foolish talk on the subject of late.
I thought it was Giskard that rejected the “Zeroth” law?
More Kaku ca-ca
Let me guess. This Kaku is an atheist - or at best, not a God-fearing person.
Or, as a product of the mind of Man, learn his most basic skill: deception.
So conversation with a sex robot would be like a perpetual “who’s on first?” routine?
Japanese scientists are hard at work helping humans “merge” with robots.
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