Ezechiel
Paranormal Adept
BBC News - Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
He's not the first to say this, Elon Musk agrees. IMHO, our co-existence with a new much more powerful sentient entity might be a lot shorter than our last sentient competition, the neanderthals, which lasted a few hundred thousand years. Should a sentient (self-aware) construct of that magnitude perceive us as a threat to its existence, it would invest all its capacities in quickly finding effective and creative 'outside the box' solutions to its perceived survival problem.
You definitely don't want it to access a working fusion reactor for example LOL
He told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
His warning came in response to a question about a revamp of the technology he uses to communicate, which involves a basic form of AI.
But others are less gloomy about AI's prospects.
The theoretical physicist, who has the motor neurone disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is using a new system developed by Intel to speak.
Machine learning experts from the British company Swiftkey were also involved in its creation. Their technology, already employed as a smartphone keyboard app, learns how the professor thinks and suggests the words he might want to use next.
Prof Hawking says the primitive forms of artificial intelligence developed so far have already proved very useful, but he fears the consequences of creating something that can match or surpass humans.
He's not the first to say this, Elon Musk agrees. IMHO, our co-existence with a new much more powerful sentient entity might be a lot shorter than our last sentient competition, the neanderthals, which lasted a few hundred thousand years. Should a sentient (self-aware) construct of that magnitude perceive us as a threat to its existence, it would invest all its capacities in quickly finding effective and creative 'outside the box' solutions to its perceived survival problem.
You definitely don't want it to access a working fusion reactor for example LOL
He told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
His warning came in response to a question about a revamp of the technology he uses to communicate, which involves a basic form of AI.
But others are less gloomy about AI's prospects.
The theoretical physicist, who has the motor neurone disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is using a new system developed by Intel to speak.
Machine learning experts from the British company Swiftkey were also involved in its creation. Their technology, already employed as a smartphone keyboard app, learns how the professor thinks and suggests the words he might want to use next.
Prof Hawking says the primitive forms of artificial intelligence developed so far have already proved very useful, but he fears the consequences of creating something that can match or surpass humans.
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