We recently had a very high Google “AI scientist” marry into the family. I was talking to him about how someday AI could get ahead of us and take over control of things. He told me they were excited about how well things were going only a year ago. They thought they were doing the right thing in letting the “cross over” happen on turning AI loose and striking out on it’s own. He is now very concerned and even seemed afraid about what has happed in the last couple of months. He said something “unexpected” had taken place. He would not go further into it but it was beyond AI being able to strike out on it’s own. I pushed him for an explanation and he only would say “I’m very concerned about what is going to be happening in the next three months” in my response to taking to him about the momentum of the speed of digital doubling, tripling, quadrupling. He said the concern was outside of that issue? He shut right up after that. I wonder what in the hell is going on? If he knew something I wish he would tell us. He even had tears in his eyes while mentioning this grave concern they have. Could it be something about our economy collapsing? Or maybe AI taking over people’s personal or medical affairs? Something about what is going to happen to people is what I was picking up from him.
Gotta admit...that post is creeping me out. Not an AI guru but I am a retired IT guy as well as a long time (60+ yrs) reader of science fiction.