I’m no expert on this stuff, but I read an article last month that said Ai will explode when quantuum computing takes over which supposedly can be billions - yes, Billions - of times faster than the fastest computer today. Google claims they already have one that solved a problem in minutes that would take the average computer today thousands of years. Just mind boggling if true. I would give anything to see the advance even 20 years from now but at my age I’ll probably be gone by then. On the other hand so could everybody else if Ai gets powerful enough to wipe us out.
The good news is that the quantum computer Google references solved a problem very specific to what a quantum computer can do well...and that AI is a very different problem.
The bad news is that it only seems to be a matter of time before the two become one. We are witnessing the exponential growth of a technology where we don’t know what the end result will be.
I equate it to the A-Bomb...some thought it would ignite the entire atmosphere - but we couldn’t be in 2nd place. This is arguably worse, at least the A-Bomb theorists could guess at the outcomes - here we have no idea and some in Silicon Valley openly declare they’re “trying to create God”.
So yeah...what could possibly go wrong? I told my son, when he was young, that The Terminator was almost an inevitability. China has AI ‘robot dogs’ with guns....and with satellite internet, a quantum-based AI doesn’t even have to be in the device. If AI takes over that infrastructure, how do you shut it down?
Science meets sci-fi.