joberg
Legendary Member
Since a lot of good points were made in another thread concerning AI and its ramifications coming sooner, rather than later in our societies; I opened a new discussion thread to see where we'll go from here.
While a computer program is still a bunch of 0s and 1s; the "sentient" aspect is the main nerve being put forward by people working for the big Computer Corps.
From Musk, to Gates, to Pichai and Hawking; the "self-learning" machine is a concern. Some say that, no matter what, the machine will need its maker i.e. : mankind.
Others are a bit more nervous about it, saying that, in the end, the machine will get rid of us (student vs master)!
These people have certainly a knowledge of Quantum Computing. That's where the concerns exist. Fourth dimension and another type of mathematics altogether.
It's easy for us to anthropomorphize "things" and animals. To give them a human trait/character that they don't really have...and that's part of the danger also.
Language is one of the problem for us, human, to get a grasp on; especially if the computers start communicating with other machine in a language of their own and at a too fast of a speed!
Lots of questions remain and not a lot of answers are available to us.
While a computer program is still a bunch of 0s and 1s; the "sentient" aspect is the main nerve being put forward by people working for the big Computer Corps.
From Musk, to Gates, to Pichai and Hawking; the "self-learning" machine is a concern. Some say that, no matter what, the machine will need its maker i.e. : mankind.
Others are a bit more nervous about it, saying that, in the end, the machine will get rid of us (student vs master)!
These people have certainly a knowledge of Quantum Computing. That's where the concerns exist. Fourth dimension and another type of mathematics altogether.
It's easy for us to anthropomorphize "things" and animals. To give them a human trait/character that they don't really have...and that's part of the danger also.
Language is one of the problem for us, human, to get a grasp on; especially if the computers start communicating with other machine in a language of their own and at a too fast of a speed!
Lots of questions remain and not a lot of answers are available to us.