Anyone
predicting the future of AI on the human race is like a monkey throwing a rock
at the moon: bravado and conjecture.
We are on the cusp of the birth of AI.
The programmers who instruct computers
to learn, themselves don’t know exactly what is happening inside the computer self-programming.
We are, with
AI, where computers were in 1984, with an Apple II-C loaded with 128 KB of RAM.
Who could
have envisioned, in 1984, the fantastic capabilities of our cell phones only
forty years later?
It is safe
to say that AI will revolutionize our world.
The powers of this science are yet to be tapped and are even hard to
imagine.
Politicians
are discussing government controls on the use of AI, but if the science is
there, it will be pursued – especially by the Military.
(See Accessory
To War, by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang)
Remember
that in the first atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945, the scientists had agreed
there was a slight chance that the bomb could cause a chain reaction in the
atmosphere with catastrophic consequences, but they continued.
(See American
Prometheus by Bird and Sherwin)
It was also unnecessary to drop the second
bomb on Nagasaki, but scientists and the government wanted to see the power of
the plutonium-fueled bomb.
Computers that
can think, independent of human beings!
AI will
benefit us in many ways, but there is always Yin and Yang.
If we build
it, they will come
or
If we build
it, they will use it
the Ol'Buzzard
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