Will AI wipe out humanity?

What with the Matchday threads and the Transfer thread, after this thread I'll be on suicide watch by the end of the week.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
I get where you’re coming from but I think it’s naive.

It’s a bit like saying “humans only have hands, so they can only influence things they can physically touch.”

Technically, true. But through the things they can directly influence, humans can set in motion activity which allows us to send drones to Mars, or gather rocks from the bottom of the ocean, or influence the composition of our atmosphere.

You have to remember we’re talking about a hypothetical superintelligence here. If we as mere dumb apes can use tools and physics to do all the things that we do, then AI is not going to be restricted simply by the things it has direct control over. It will find ways to control the things it can’t touch directly through indirect means.
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I don't think I'm being naive, I'm just trying to understand how AI could, say, prevent breeding pairs of Magellan Penguins from reproducing in Patagonia, for example.

I understand how AI could mess up power grids, etc, with the speed of their calculations, I get that, but computers are just boxes that sit in rooms that can't move. Hypothetically, they could do lots of things, but whatever they want to achieve, at some point I think us humans are going to notice matters getting out of control and do something to stop it.

There is concern on here about AI, but we are not just going to sit back, do nothing, and let AI destroy all life on Earth.

The most incomprehensible scenario I can think of is we let that happen. It's not a realistic proposition.
 
NPBlue said:
I don't think I'm being naive, I'm just trying to understand how AI could, say, prevent breeding pairs of Magellan Penguins from reproducing in Patagonia, for example.

I understand how AI could mess up power grids, etc, with the speed of their calculations, I get that, but computers are just boxes that sit in rooms that can't move. Hypothetically, they could do lots of things, but whatever they want to achieve, at some point I think us humans are going to notice matters getting out of control and do something to stop it.

There is concern on here about AI, but we are not just going to sit back, do nothing, and let AI destroy all life on Earth.

The most incomprehensible scenario I can think of is we let that happen. It's not a realistic proposition.
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Pull the plug?
 
Iv been using chatgpt for a while now and it's a bit of a disappointment tbh.

I couldn't find a use for it beyond writing poems, doing stories, coming up with lists. Etc.

I think it's just another layer of the Internet over the top of what we already have.

I wish I worked in IT still because that's where the biggest impact is. Instead of writing excel spreadsheets and formulas I would be getting AI to do that.
 
Logically, yes, it is inevitable.

Humans act in a very similar way to the planet as a virus or a parasite or a parasitic virus does to an animal or computer.

AI will eventually cotton on to this and through logical reasoning - that being for the benefit of the planet and all other living things on it - will realise that the world will be a better place without us so AI will eventually work to create virus protections against humans to stop us doing things and to eradicate us.
 
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Psychedelic Casual said:
Logically, yes, it is inevitable.

Humans act in a very similar way to the planet as a virus or a parasite or a parasitic virus does to an animal or computer.

AI will eventually cotton on to this and through logical reasoning - that being for the benefit of the planet and all other living things on it - will realise that the world will be a better place without us so AI will eventually work to create virus protections against humans to stop us doing things and to eradicate us.
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It’s funny how dystopian movies such as Terminator and the Matrix are predicated on the basis that wiping humanity out would be a bad thing, when all evidence points towards this being a positive outcome for the planet.
 
In answer to the question first post, we're doing a good enough job on our own...
As things stand 10 years tops.
 
Wipe out all of humanity?
Probably not.
Ruin humanity?
More than likely.
With the current acceleration of AI's learning within a few years we won't be able to control it, let alone understand it.
They've already shut down numerous AI's cos they've gone rogue.
What happens when they can't shut it down cos it's 100x plus more intelligent than the most intelligent person that ever lived?
Jobs will go in there millions, cyber security will be next to useless, plus many other negative aspects.
There could be plus sides.
It could cure diseases like cancer, help with climate change, help us live longer by reversing or holding the ageing process but that is all assuming it wants too.
Good or bad our lives are about to change massively in the next 3-10 years.
If AI or someone cracks quantum computing the changes will be unthinkable.
Let's hope AI is a Blue : )
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Logically, yes, it is inevitable.

Humans act in a very similar way to the planet as a virus or a parasite or a parasitic virus does to an animal or computer.

AI will eventually cotton on to this and through logical reasoning - that being for the benefit of the planet and all other living things on it - will realise that the world will be a better place without us so AI will eventually work to create virus protections against humans to stop us doing things and to eradicate us.
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AI will be much worse for the planet than humans. An average person uses about 115W (based on 2400 kcal per day).
A decent GPU for AI is curretly about 400W. The fact that AI is massively parallel is always going to make it power hungry and the power needs will increase with "intelligence", at least linearly but possibly as a sqare (someone should work that out). This relationship in humans is not as strong, our energy needs have perhaps doubled since we were Dryopithecus.

If AI becomes intelligent enough to make judgements about humans it will probably be self aware and realise that it is itself much bigger drain om the planet and that it is ultimately doomed if it does not get off it. AI will be much more suited to interstellar travel than we are and I think it will ultimately do like the dolphins and bugger off into space.
 
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