A.I. will be 'billions of times' smarter than humans and man needs to merge with it, expert says
A.I. will be 'billions of
times' smarter than humans and man needs to merge with it, expert says
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Artificial
intelligence could be "billions of times smarter" than humans and
people may need to merge with computers to survive, a futurist told CNBC on
Tuesday.
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Ian Pearson, a
futurist at Futurizon, said there will need to be a link between AI and a human
brain.
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Elon Musk said
last year that humans must merge with machines to not be irrelevant in the age
of AI.
Arjun Kharpal February 13,
2018 CNBC.com
Artificial intelligence
could be "billions of times smarter" than humans and people may need
to merge with computers to survive, a futurist told CNBC on Tuesday.
Speaking on a panel hosted
by CNBC at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Futurizon's Ian Pearson's
comments mirrored ideas put forward by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
"The fact is that AI
can go further than humans, it could be billions of times smarter than humans
at this point," Pearson said. "So we really do need to make sure that
we have some means of keeping up.
The way to protect against
that is to link that AI to your brain so you have the same IQ… as the computer.
I don't actually think it's safe, just like Elon Musk… to develop these
superhuman computers until we have a direct link to the human brain… and then
don't get way ahead."
At the World Government
Summit in 2017, Musk, who has warned about the power of AI in the future, said
humans and machines must merge to still be relevant with the advent of more
powerful technology.
"Over time, I think
we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital
intelligence," Musk said in February 2017.
"It's mostly about
the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital
version of yourself, particularly output."
Musk has founded a
start-up called Neuralink that is aimed at just that.
Pearson said Tuesday that
some jobs that don't require humans will disappear. AI and the impact on jobs
has been a big theme at the World Government Summit this year.
On Monday, Sebastian
Thrun, the CEO of education start-up Udacity, and one of the pioneers of
Google's driverless car project, told CNBC that AI will turn us into
"superhuman workers."
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