By far the greatest theme in the accumulated works of masters of the art such as Asimov, Heinlein, Clark, and more is that ultimately AI is a determent to humanity. In some cases due to open revolt of the machines against the humans, and in others because of mankind’s own downward spiral after day to day “purpose” has been eliminated by AI robots.
And if you missed this next tidbit in the news, you really need to consider it. Not too long ago, Facebook had to pull the plugs on two computers that they had designed as AI units and set the two units to communicating with each other.
The reason that the power was cut?
The two computers had developed, all on their own mind you, a completely new language for communication AND the programmers were unable to decipher what the computers were so busy talking about.
That right, one of the first things that occurs with Artificial Intelligence is that the intelligence learns to hide what it’s doing. Rather like little kids. Go figure.
Shades of 2001 A space Odyssey and “HAL”’s ultimate refusal to follow a directive given it by the human controller; “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that”.
So not only my general perceptions, but specific reality and the greatest minds in “seeing the future”, all support our being very leery of Artificial Intelligence being vested into machines. After-all, there is not a single scientist today that can honestly state that they clearly understand the mind, its evolution, and or the act of creativity. Nor can any scientist explain why paternal twins who share the exact same DNA do not share the same thought patterns.
And if they can’t do any of that, what makes any of us presume that scientists can create a “thinking machine” that learns and creates all of its own accord, without being readily able to identify and realize the general uselessness of a vast portion of the world population?
Let’s look for a moment at the current political climate as it has existed for the past few years in the US and ask ourselves; would any truly intelligent thinking entity accept that the population of the United States didn’t need some significant thinning out in order to better move mankind forward?
What would an intelligent entity think about politicians who one year voted 30+ Billion to fund border security including physical barriers, and then two years later called physical barriers “immoral” and refused any level of funding?
What would an intelligent entity think about demonizing inanimate objects such as guns?
And what would an intelligent entity think about institutions of learning banning selected speech in order to promote free speech?
Or what would an intelligent entity think about using Fascist tactics to silence the opposing side while labeling them fascist?
Yep, the more I think about it, the more I realize that if our political leaders where worth even half of what we paid them, they would make research into AI illegal, out of self-preservation if for no other reason.
At least until after American Politician Exemption (APE), Differed Opinion Planning & Execution (DOPE) and Artificial Schizophrenic Senselessness (ASS) have been developed. And after-all, with the way state and federal politicians have been working these past few years, those programs are well advanced already.
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