Will AI wipe out humanity?

domalino said:
Does it matter?

This question has made me realise I really don’t give a toss about the long term (200+ years in the future) prospects of humanity.

I care about the world around me and the people in it today. I care about my children and their children and probably their children too, but I don’t think I can bring myself to care about 20 generations into the future any more than I care about relatives 20 generations back dying of bubonic plague etc.


Obviously I’d like for us to avoid this if possible and not embark on a deliberate attempt to end the species, I think we have a moral responsibility to look after the planet we’re on and not dig a hole for the future generations but god knows much of the planet would be much better off without us.

No one grieves for the Neanderthal. We are just another link in the evolutionary chain, eventually we will be replaced like all species before us.
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Hah we’re taking less than 5 years not 200 though
 
inbetween said:
I think we're quite a long way away yet. Even today's AI such as ChatGPT isn't actually AI, it's just an algorithm which utilises the internet to formulate answers to questions. It cannot come up with new ideas or do anything that separates it from a very advanced version of Google.

They say the AI singularity is tied to processing power but I don't think that is really relevant. We're getting close to brain type levels of hardware and processing power but the software is a million miles off. Whilst computers are tied to 0's and 1's then we'll never see a true intelligence which isn't reliant or based upon human programming.

That doesn't mean we can't get AI and robots to do everything we need because do we really need an intelligent AI or do we actually just need far more powerful automation? I'd say the latter is best and the former is dangerous.
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What happens when the AI can invent a better AI than us though, it will increase exponentially and quick, shall we play a game!
 
I don't see it wiping out humanity as such but it could easily have a devastating affect on our lifestyles. The more reliant we become on I.T. systems the more at risk we become.

Just imagine a day where you wake up in the morning and your identity and financial history has gone, your bank account is empty, your pension pot has gone, you can't buy food and other essentials, you have no gas or electricity, you have no internet and can't contact anyone to resolve these issues. Now imagine that this happens to millions of people all at once.

Society as we know it would crumble within day's.
 
Blue Maverick said:
What happens when the AI can invent a better AI than us though, it will increase exponentially and quick, shall we play a game!
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There is no guarantee that it can. AIs rate of development is still the result of human intelligence, not it's own. AI models require much more data to learn to the same level as a human, and that may always be the case.

Just as life had to evolve "support services" like digestion and breathing to support higher levels of intelligence, AI will face it's own problems such as power consumption and heat dissipation. In order to solve these it will need to become aware of the physical world and be able to connect the dots to design these systems, they will never evolve as ours have.
 
If the thick cow inside my fruit flavoured mobile phone is anything to go by, I’m not worried yet.

She can’t even turn our smart lightbulbs on without having a hissy fit and being barked at 5 times.
 
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