I agree. I see a lot of discussion about the dangers of computers becoming “aware” and having “consciousness” so that the machines will be “intelligent”.
We are not there. Probably won’t get to that point for quite some time.
Still, this current generation of decision machines will be highly transformative for society. A lot of good white-color jobs can be done better and more cheaply by a solid algorithm that makes decisions using available inputs.
Financial markets, legal filings, media output, and political decision making will be transformed (right now) by the use of these things.
We may get more efficiency (which is good) but I think we will see a lot less use for much human labor (which is bad).
Inner cities have taught us that paying people to do nothing gives them the free time to create great works of art, literature, music, and really acts as a catalyst for the pursuit of scientific inquiry and technological innovation.
>>A lot of good white-color jobs can be done better and more cheaply by a solid algorithm that makes decisions using available inputs.
A lot of work from home jobs that consist of a person working at a PC, using text, mail, chat and collaborative tools will be eliminated.
They don’t have to have intelligence the way we do in order to be dangerous. When the first computer spoke to another one in a language we can’t understand, it was over.
Everybody suddenly talking about it NOW when we were warned decades ago.
Machines will never “become aware”
Sorry s I Fi fans it is a machine. It depends upon human input. Be more worried about the programmers
Go look at the series of “Person of Interest”. In it a sentient AI is created — don’t worry about why.
There is one episode that looks back on the time when the inventor first wakes it up. He’d been having a bad couple of days (looks like he is in the grip of a hangover) and his business partner asks why. The response is: “Every damned time I wake it up it tries to kill me. It has tried 42 times so far.”