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DEEPMIND, FACEBOOK A.I. RESEARCH, FAIR, FORTUNE magazine, GOOGLE BRAIN, IT, OPENAI, The thinking Universe
Yesterday I picked up FORTUNE magazine and on the new-style cover, there is an abstract view of a human head transitioning into a computer. There is a subtitle – Artificial Intelligence – How the race to create a true thinking machine will reshape business. The pages from 62 to 91 are filled with THE QUEST FOR HUMAN-LEVEL A.I. and the headline on page 64 is A.I. IS LEARNING (WAY, WAY) FASTER, than humans can.
There are four companies on the leading edge of A.I..
OPENAI – whose mission is to create AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that “benefits all of humanity.”
DEEPMIND – bought by Google – “solve intelligence, then use that to solve everything else.”
GOOGLE BRAIN – that has led to big breakthroughs in natural-language processing.
FACEBOOK A.I. RESEARCH – (FAIR) has the goal of creating human-like A.I. for detecting A.I.-generated “deepfake” videos.
FORTUNE claims $50 billion will be spent on A.I. in the next three years and will add $13 trillion to the world economic output by 2030.
None of the articles I read mentioned what I have been stating in this blog. We are headed toward the creation of self-replicating intelligent non-carbon chip-based beings. When they gain the ability to self-replicate, they will evolve to fill every available niche to “live” their lives. The only food they need to power their life processes is electricity, and there are many ways for them to create electricity without crowding in on our human infrastructure for creating our food.
In the long run in human terms, these beings will be with us very soon, but in the long run for them, it will just be the beginning of their converting the whole available Universe into a thinking being. That version of life will last until there is no longer any way to create their food … electricity. The basis of all living forms is food!
As IT looks back from the omnipresent places where it will exist at our exhausted Sun IT will thank us, Earthlings, for bringing IT into existence.
We, humans, are a transition species, and our responsibility as thinking beings is to create the self-replicating units needed for IT, the thinking Universe.
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The debate about AI postulates that humans may have no future. History would argue otherwise. New tools and capabilities in cognitive computing systems will not replace humans. However, like many tools invented throughout human history, they will likely change our individual capabilities and our society in ways that are both good and bad. Like all of human history, it will be our choice between good and evil that may decide in the short term while the laws of nature will likely determine the final outcome. In the short run, we can choose to use these new tools to murder and enslave one another or we can choose to apply them to free ourselves from potential AI masters. Should we foolishly choose slavery over freedom, nature will correct our error and extract an unpleasant penalty. History has proven that slavery in any form is unsustainable under the laws of nature.
Ultimately only natural intelligence will prevail and survive as part of the laws of human destiny. The Turing test, like most politicians, proves only that people are easy to fool about the nature of intelligence. The term AI implies an unsubstantiated claim, without proof just as the hubris of a similar misnomer called Artificial Life which is more accurately called simulated life (SL). Until an AI can create a better AI we should reign in the imaginative hype that implies claims to a singularity unsupported by any objective proof. I suggest we use names that reserve some pretense of humility for when they are as worng as equally hyped global warming simulations have proven to be.
Intelligence is not the problem (artificial or otherwise). It is the lack of intelligence within subhuman animals, who emote more than think, that is the real threat. History suggests that nature can, and will, continue to eliminate this problem over time. Hype about an unproven imaginary existential threat from AI is one of many fatal conceits of history. Have faith. Nature and history disprove all the AI prophets of doom. How we choose to use these tools will decide the future of mankind – not any technology that we may invent along the way. Choose wisely to avoid the penalties of nature and an unnecessary repetition of harsh remedial lessons from history. Eventually, even arrogant AI prophets of doom may figure it out.