Will AI wipe out humanity?

Nope, will change the world for sure but end humanity is just scare tactics to sell books and YouTube clicks.
 
The end is nigh and I wish I was joking.

What will happen to us when we are not needed, are we going to get supplied with free food, and health care. Are we going to be allowed to idle about doing what leisure activities we want. What happens when AI makes the human race redundant.

Like it or not that day is coming.
 
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gordondaviesmoustache said:
It is actually unbelievable that we are unquestionably allowing a cohort of sociopathic billionaire narcissists take us down a path that could quite conceivably end in the destruction of our species without any apparent checks and balances being in place.
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It’s going to be hit the human race in two parts, basic jobs will be able to be completed by AI, for a business having something that doesn’t want a day off, doesnt go applying for jobs and leaves when it’s pissed off, doesn’t need holiday entitlement, pension contributions, national insurance contributions etc and can work continuously 24 hours a day will be a big yes to any business owner. There’s over 8 billion people on the planet, what happens to them when they haven’t got any employment prospects due to AI collapsing the jobs market. It’s coming and it seems governments across the world are sleep walking into this.

Then there’s the dooms day scenario where we create something that can learn and evolve much quicker than us. What happens when it reaches the point where we as a species don’t serve any purpose to it or are seen as a threat?

AI does have benefits for us, it could sort the eternal staffing crisis in the NHS. Automation can free up doctors to spend more time with patients. You could see Musk’s new robots he has created trained to provide basic care. It’s use in oncology on spotting cancers on scans which a trained oncologists can’t see has already been happening.

There’s benefits and negatives to AI we need to evaluate both sides. There’s benefits and worrying things is we have someone like Musk who has Trump as a useful idiot to start hatching what he wants to do.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Then there’s the dooms day scenario where we create something that can learn and evolve much quicker than us. What happens when it reaches the point where we as a species don’t serve any purpose to it or are seen as a threat?
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Turn it off at the mains?
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
It’s going to be hit the human race in two parts, basic jobs will be able to be completed by AI, for a business having something that doesn’t want a day off, doesnt go applying for jobs and leaves when it’s pissed off, doesn’t need holiday entitlement, pension contributions, national insurance contributions etc and can work continuously 24 hours a day will be a big yes to any business owner. There’s over 8 billion people on the planet, what happens to them when they haven’t got any employment prospects due to AI collapsing the jobs market. It’s coming and it seems governments across the world are sleep walking into this.

Then there’s the dooms day scenario where we create something that can learn and evolve much quicker than us. What happens when it reaches the point where we as a species don’t serve any purpose to it or are seen as a threat?

AI does have benefits for us, it could sort the eternal staffing crisis in the NHS. Automation can free up doctors to spend more time with patients. You could see Musk’s new robots he has created trained to provide basic care. It’s use in oncology on spotting cancers on scans which a trained oncologists can’t see has already been happening.

There’s benefits and negatives to AI we need to evaluate both sides. There’s benefits and worrying things is we have someone like Musk who has Trump as a useful idiot to start hatching what he wants to do.
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No one will need to work, computers will do everything and everyone will be paid a living wage and get to whatever they want with their lives rather than work 40 hours plus a week. Sounds great!
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
It’s going to be hit the human race in two parts, basic jobs will be able to be completed by AI, for a business having something that doesn’t want a day off, doesnt go applying for jobs and leaves when it’s pissed off, doesn’t need holiday entitlement, pension contributions, national insurance contributions etc and can work continuously 24 hours a day will be a big yes to any business owner. There’s over 8 billion people on the planet, what happens to them when they haven’t got any employment prospects due to AI collapsing the jobs market. It’s coming and it seems governments across the world are sleep walking into this.

Then there’s the dooms day scenario where we create something that can learn and evolve much quicker than us. What happens when it reaches the point where we as a species don’t serve any purpose to it or are seen as a threat?

AI does have benefits for us, it could sort the eternal staffing crisis in the NHS. Automation can free up doctors to spend more time with patients. You could see Musk’s new robots he has created trained to provide basic care. It’s use in oncology on spotting cancers on scans which a trained oncologists can’t see has already been happening.

There’s benefits and negatives to AI we need to evaluate both sides. There’s benefits and worrying things is we have someone like Musk who has Trump as a useful idiot to start hatching what he wants to do.
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We are decades away from this. There are many many jobs that AI wont do quickly. AI can't drive cars without people in them yet and most 17 year olds can learn to drive from scratch in a few weeks.
 
I don't believe that sentient AI will ever exist on silicone chips on a PCB.

Intelligent life requires organic grey matter.

I have no scientific evidence to prove this, but there's no scientific evidence that disproves it either.

For that reason I contend, that we won't be seeing T1000, HAL 9000 or Ash from Alien anytime soon, if ever.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
I don't believe that sentient AI will ever exist on silicone chips on a PCB.

Intelligent life requires organic grey matter.

I have no scientific evidence to prove this, but there's no scientific evidence that disproves it either.

For that reason I contend, that we won't be seeing T1000, HAL 9000 or Ash from Alien anytime soon, if ever.
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Its a fair view, although when you look at organic grey matter its just neurons making connections and triggering between each other. on that level its entirely possible to emulate that in software. its what Neural networks are and are certainly capable of learning at this point.

Granted Intelligence isn't the same as learning.
 
grunge said:
Its a fair view, although when you look at organic grey matter its just neurons making connections and triggering between each other. on that level its entirely possible to emulate that in software. its what Neural networks are and are certainly capable of learning at this point.

Granted Intelligence isn't the same as learning.
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Even with emulation, I still believe it is a hardware issue.

If you were to take an analogy, it's easier to run old software successfully on the original machine compared to some emulators on more powerful machines.

Maybe there will be an "FPGA equivalent" technology that would allow future computers to emulate grey matter.
 
pluses and negatives with AI, the worst case scenario scares me to death. The incompetent world leadership and their ability to control AI terrifies me more.
 
There’s alot of money in game for promoting AI scare tactics, seen YouTube vids from years ago now ‘The End Is Nigh’ ‘Don’t Have Children’ etc , books, documentarys about it. Obviously huge concerns but I’m seeing a money making angle to all this.
 
AI may well wipe out humanity but it won't be because it goes rogue.

It will be that it turns us soft and lazy and stupid and we end up fizzling out.

All civilisations come to en end. AI might just be a catalyst for the end of this one.
 
Mr Grumpy said:
AI may well wipe out humanity but it won't be because it goes rogue.

It will be that it turns us soft and lazy and stupid and we end up fizzling out.

All civilisations come to en end. AI might just be a catalyst for the end of this one.
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Did you used to walk around Maine Road with a 'The end is nigh' placard ? :)
 
kippax_blueboy said:
We are decades away from this. There are many many jobs that AI wont do quickly. AI can't drive cars without people in them yet and most 17 year olds can learn to drive from scratch in a few weeks.
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That’s more an issue of regulation than technology. Our standard for allowing a 17 year old to drive is far far lower than the standard we’re applying for autonomous vehicles.

Waymo already does 150,000 driverless rides per week and will soon be operating across 6 cities in the US. In the 23 million miles that Waymo cars covered there have been two instances of people being injured. That makes it approximately 50 times safer than the average 17 year old male.

Are driverless cars perfect? No, of course not, they can still improve and they sometimes get into difficulty when finding themselves in unique circumstances. But have you seen some of the human drivers out there? Fuck me. Give me a robot driver any day of the week.
 
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