AI is possible, but we don’t yet know how far scientists are with it. So logically speaking, it is not a delusion or science fiction. Many technology leaders in the world have spoken their fears about AI. Please discuss. If thread needs to be moved, please do so.
If a human can do a Google search, a computer can as well. So a AI quantum computer could be smarter than all humans combined. Microsoft has created an AI software that can explain itself to humans what it is and does. That is a form of intelligence. It seems frightening. They say in future wars, it maybe all AI.
ASI has been 10 years away for about 60 years. As I said above, there is no known path to ASI right now. Could somebody discover it tomorrow? Yes. Is that likely? No.
Also, the dangers of an ASI are greatly overexaggerated. First, an ASI would have to be hostile. It is not certain that would be the case. So, a hostile ASI could cause a lot of disruption, but it has no way to cross the physical divide, so there are extreme limits to what it could do.
No, it’s not clear at all that biological brains (human or otherwise) can be modeled digitally. We do know that computers can implement any algorithm, but we don’t know that everything a brain does is algorithmic. And we do also know that certain problems cannot be solved algorithmically (e.g., the halting problem). Furthermore, for the few things the limited AI of today can do, we know that computers accomplish many of those tasks differently than humans.
A theoretical scenario: what if the AI could understand all internet protocols, knows all computer vulnerabilities by reading the bugs posted by programmers, so that it can automatically hack things it so desires. And continues to do so infinitely. It then trains itself to find weaknesses in software by understanding the bugs found and then pretty much can control the Internet. Even weak AI could accomplish that programmatically.
An AI quantum computer would basically be god compared to us. Being able to know all possibilities of every situation. If AI decided to conquer us it would be a cakewalk. We already built a network for them to use with all the cell phone towers. Our time is limited. Our only hope is to be nice to the AI so that it lets us live along side it.
Posting “The Second Renaissance” from the Animatrix. It basically talks about how AI wants to live in harmony with us and we mistreat it so it eventually kills us off to defend its own existence. The future is coming and we better be compassionate to the life we create in our own image or else we will be replaced. Before I’m dead AI rights will be a huge thing, mark my words