Killer robots ‘so intelligent they’re like
gods’ will rule mankind: ‘Humans will be ants’
A LEADING futurist has
claimed that killer robots don’t need to be evil to be driven to wipe-out
humanity.
Explaining
the singularity, David Wood D.Sc. exclusively told Daily Star Online that the
intelligence of future machines will be beyond anything humans can possibly
imagine.
Today, AI has only what we call
“narrow intelligence”.
This means while AI can be
designed to beat humans at chess or chat about Shakespeare, one machine can’t
do both at once.
But David, co-founder of Transhumanist Party UK, said that in the future, “one
of the first things that AI will do is design a better AI”.IENDLY AI: There is no way of knowing what robots will
do (Pic: GETTY STOCK)
“So we have to be
sure that these AIs of the future, these post-singularity beings, will still
have enough respect and care for us humans that they will want to look after us
rather than trampling us into oblivion”
David
Wood D.Sc.
This will unleash an
unstoppable chain reaction.
“And that new AI, the second AI
,will be better at building better AI and it will read every article on
Wikipedia and every scientific journal around the world in every language, and
it will realise that some obscure idea, which had largely been ignored by
humans, is actually key to improving AI even more,” David said.
“We’ve spent maybe 50 to 100
years building AI — eventually is smarter than humans — and that AI will then
spend 100, not years, but months, or weeks, or maybe days, even hours, building
a much, much smarter AI.”
The big question then, David
added, is: “Would we understand in advance what AI want to do?”
To hammer home how stupid
humans will be in the eyes in these super-machines, David compared us to
prehistoric apes.
He
said: “Imagine that the apes had a conference eight million years ago somewhere
in Africa.
“And imagine they were thinking
‘What could we do with the future if our brains get better by evolution?’
“…They might say ‘we like
bananas’, maybe in the future we should have more bananas?
“They might say ‘we like sex’,
so in the future we might have more kinds of incredible sex, but they wouldn’t
have been able to foresee a thing like Pythagoras’ Theorem or Mozart’s
symphonies, or the majesty of Shakespeare or Breaking Bad, or visiting the
moons of Jupiter.
“That’s beyond their
conception.”
We
will therefore be at the mercy of these new “beings” whose goals are “so far
advanced of ours that we can’t conceive it”, he said.
“And we have to hope, in that
case, that in their new state, these beings are going to care about us.
“We sort-of care about the
apes, but we’ve killed most of them and there are very few of them left.
“If we come up against a bunch
of ants and we are building a new office block we don’t think ‘Oh these ants
are quit cute, they’re quite clever, look at their network society and their
anthills’, we just bulldoze them into oblivion.
“Not
because we hate ants, simply because we have other things on our minds.
“So we have to be sure that
these AIs of the future, these post-singularity beings, will still have enough
respect and care for us humans that they will want to look after us rather than
trampling us into oblivion.
“That’s the singularity.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/792485/killer-robots-artificial-intelligence-transhumanism
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