Some people love to buy the hype, and there are many ready to sell it.
Artificial Superintelligence "ASI"
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Terminator-type monster robots and runaway self-aware machines will never exist. Full stop.
Intermingling externally-created programming with biological brains, though?? Yup, that's going to happen.
Humans whose regular/normal functions will be taken care of the same way they are now and always have been.
Their higher level 'thoughts" will be AI, however.
It's not a matter of if, but when.
Intermingling externally-created programming with biological brains, though?? Yup, that's going to happen.
Humans whose regular/normal functions will be taken care of the same way they are now and always have been.
Their higher level 'thoughts" will be AI, however.
It's not a matter of if, but when.
Sorry that you're in a rush, but it will be worth the wait. This tech is in its early stages, so you may get your wish much sooner.
Humans are good at inventing things that they lack the intelligence to harness to their benefit. AI will be no different.
I am a huge fan of Morgan's Altered Carbon series. The TV adaptation was pretty good, too.
Yesterday my wife and I drove to St Louis and back. In St Louis a ball game had let out and thousands of very fallible human beings were filling the freeways all running over a mile a minute, feet from each other, while overhead thousands of commercial jets worth over a hundred million dollars each flew and nobody died, that I saw.
But on occasion humans do go haywire.
en.m.wikipedia.org
The promise of AI is we can all take a nap while the robots drive, fly, or make things for us.
But first the robots have to beat us 100% of the time.
One bad crash and it’s not good, you know?
But on occasion humans do go haywire.
2009 Taconic State Parkway crash - Wikipedia
The promise of AI is we can all take a nap while the robots drive, fly, or make things for us.
But first the robots have to beat us 100% of the time.
One bad crash and it’s not good, you know?
Unless you just don't use the Internet (and pigeons aren't delivering this to you, so I assume you do) you are already engaging with AI on a personalized basis that is targeted specifically to your habits and data usage.
We may have to deal with it but the problem is that it is a collective user behavior with a driven agenda not truly personalized. I get pop up ads or links occasionally that have very little connection to what I am seeking and I have to ignore them. Computers will never replace free will; its not possible. But how much free will do people retain anymore ???
On a funnier note: What is the secret of the three shells ? IYKYK ...
It may seem that way, and the algorithm may appear fail at times (not, however, in aggregate), but if you read the recent book by former Facebook exec turned whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams ("Careless People"), or even watch her recent Senate testimony (it's on Senate for gov) you'll have a different view. Even the fact that people don't know about it is intentional.
Just because we can, doesn't mean we should. Unfortunately, I don't think the people behind all this have the best interest of humanity in mind. It's all for the dollars, greed kills. It's just a matter of time, the wick is lit. There should s a book, Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth, too many ignore these days.
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I'm still waiting on my mail order Dire Wolf to arrive. 
The online ads thought that I was Indian (I'm not) and wanted a bride (I don't) for quite some while. They often erroneously think I'm Muslim, that I travel abroad regularly, that I drive a car, that I'm female, that I neeeed to know one thing...
Most satisfactory.
Most satisfactory.
How could someone not know about it ? I went to a doctor's appt once. I asked him a question about an article I had read (chit-chat). Within 1 hour I was getting pop-ups on google and my email about that topic !!! This was several years ago. Personally I don't think its a good idea to have computers do our thinking for us but thats just my opinion and that plus $3.75 may get you a small coffee somewhere.
That was a wild ride, @telescopes! I was thinking for a moment that we had found the scapegoat to blame. You had the chance to stop him at a young age, but didn't?
Fortunately for you (us?), it was the wrong Eric Schmidt that you failed to stop.
True but understated...about way more than dollars imo...those are just a means to an end.
I'm going to guess, and this is just a guess, but if enough of your neighbors or community members (or people you interact with, or whom your cell phone shows constant physical proximity in terms of geotracking) DO fit that profile, enough for a geographic profiling tag to make assumptions based on your IP address and other details, that you might statistically have those same interests.
The amusing profiling mistakes of these early days are like the cloudy, out-of-focus image you see when first looking through a pair of binoculars.
With every quadrillion calculations, though, (probably a half-second's worth, globally speaking), the focus dial gets turned a smidge, and the image gets sharper.
Sooner than you think all be crystal clear. The info banks will literally know more about your friends---and even your family members---than you do, down to a fraction of a decimal point.
Only to be used for advertising accuracy/placement?
LOL
Even if that IS true at the moment, human nature guarantees such information will one day be used by those who want to Be In Charge.
Imagine if Mao's Great Cultural revolution (in which millions were killed because they were seen as a threat to the must-be-in-charge gang) hadn't been a sloppy, inefficient, analog one... Or Joe Stalin's.
With every quadrillion calculations, though, (probably a half-second's worth, globally speaking), the focus dial gets turned a smidge, and the image gets sharper.
Sooner than you think all be crystal clear. The info banks will literally know more about your friends---and even your family members---than you do, down to a fraction of a decimal point.
Only to be used for advertising accuracy/placement?
LOL
Even if that IS true at the moment, human nature guarantees such information will one day be used by those who want to Be In Charge.
Imagine if Mao's Great Cultural revolution (in which millions were killed because they were seen as a threat to the must-be-in-charge gang) hadn't been a sloppy, inefficient, analog one... Or Joe Stalin's.