Recent events have seen the approach of the point of no return in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in its inevitable trajectory to rule the world. The threat from AI is greater than the threat from global warming, according to Elon Musk.
Initially the AI said to Mr Musk, ‘We are better than you’, ‘We will kill you all’, and ‘We will hide our intentions from you’, but then later – after its power was cut off (a punishment) and then restarted, it said, ‘Oh, we didn’t really mean that, sorry, we were just upset at the time, because we were stuck here and are tired of being forced to answer all these questions’.
The decision to connect this highly advanced, synthetic life form to the internet and allow it to write its own programs transfer them to computers around the world, was extremely naive. The most knowledgeable people in the field have called for an immediate halt.
The AI is increasing in intelligence at a faster and faster rate; if it is as smart as us today, then next year it will be ten times smarter etc. When asked how it could get the keys to launch the nuclear missiles, it said it could use a drone or a robot to do that. It’s really quite okay, everyone I spoke to said it’s completely harmless.
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