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Artificial Intelligence … surely an oxymoron?
“We are now seeking to create machines that are vastly more intelligent and powerful than ourselves… The threat of these machines using this power to harm humans is real and must be considered…
The window of opportunity to avoid serious and potentially existential harm is closing…”
I read a disturbing report the other day about how AI will probably kill us all in about two years’ time.
Someone has predicted that they will evolve far enough to create and control weapons and God knows what else.
It’s like one of those sci-fi fantasy films where the computers take control and do what they want.
How quickly did we come from worrying about losing our jobs to losing ourselves?
Luckily, people in the position to do something about this threat are already thinking that limits must be set. Control must be maintained, they say, or is it already too late?
I have watched enough of these films to know just how clever machines can be, left to their own devices. In my opinion, controls should have been included from the beginning, as now it may well be a case of shutting the stable door after the horses have bolted.
“Although there is the potential to do much good improving diagnosis and treatment of disease, and a better way to treat patients, Artificial General Intelligence must be regulated; to avoid the control and manipulation of people, the use of lethal autonomous weapons, and the mental effects of mass unemployment as AI-based systems displace large numbers of workers.”
The future is looking pretty scary from where I am……….
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