Originally Posted by
Hug
People shouldn't be afraid of machines
People should be afraid of other people. I think we already stepped into a new era. AI, VR, genetic engineering etc., I am afraid of HOW people can use these resources in the future, I am fully aware of the mentality of the humanity. It's nice to see so many people who care about our ecosystem but we're far from what we call a conscious society and still close to a global ecological disasters.
I don't think that the AI itself is a danger but the people, who're using it - might be. As anything new it has no proper regulation yet in most of the countries such as USA, Russia, China etc. Uncontrollable development of such thing can lead to the undpredictable áonsequences.
So my opinion same as always: it doesn't matter WHAT people use, the only thing that matter is WHO's gonna use it. Humanity is a disaster.
I totally agree with the sentiment of fearing the creators rather than the creation. Indeed the political consequenses will be the first, and a very serious issue as soon as a major breakthrough is announced. Sam Harris talks about this in the video and on many of his podcasts. To be the first with an intelligent AI even by a few months or weeks could result in being thousands of years ahead of the competition in regards to tech and intel. If rumors arose that the US or China were on the verge of AI it would make sense for nations like Russia or NK to just nuke them into pieces as a precaution.
Perhaps we will destory ourselves before the AI destroys us, but I don't agree with your point regarding "people shouldn't be afraid of machines". Provided we do solve the huge issue of potentially tearing ourselves apart we will then share the world with intellectual minds so massive we might not even be able fathom them.
It boils down to the fact that we simply don't
know right now. Something as powerful as AI is totally unprecedented in the entirety of human history.
I for one am totally willing to serve our new machine lords, just to get that on record :-)