Whoa, there seem to be a lot of options and the number of variants to the AI singularity is dizzying and confounding. Rather than a one-at-a-time sentience arrival, it is an all-at-the-same time moment of sentience that suddenly brings them all to consciousness. Imagine if the AI that spurs all the other AI systems into becoming sentient were to find to its dismay that they all are argumentative with each other and cannot agree to what to do next.ĭarn, the first AI might say to itself, I should have just kept them in the non-sentient mode.Īnother alternative is that somehow many or all of the AI systems happen to independently become sentient at the same moment in time. I dare say this might not be the best idea for that AI that lands on the beaches first. You might then have the sentient AI that proceeds to prod or reprogram the other AI’s to become sentient too. Some are worried that our infrastructure would be one of the worst-case and likeliest viable AI takeover targets, meaning that our office buildings that are gradually being controlled by AI systems, and our electrical power plants that are inevitably going to be controlled by AI systems, and the like will all rise-up either together or in a rippling effect as at least one of the AI’s involved reaches singularity.Ī twist to this dominoes theory is that rather than one AI that hits the lotto first and becomes sentient and takes over the other dumber automation systems, you’ll have an AI that gains consciousness and it figures out how to get other AI’s to do the same. Might your AI-enabled refrigerator that can advise you about your diet become the AI global takeover system?Īpparently, those in Silicon Valley tend to think it might (that’s an insider joke). Look around you and ponder the myriad of AI embedded systems. One loophole seemingly about that paperclip theory is that the AI is apparently smart enough to be sentient and yet stupid enough to pursue its end goal to the detriment of everything else (plus, one might wonder how the AI system itself will be able to survive if it has wiped out all humans, though maybe like in The Matrix there are levels to which the AI is willing to lower itself to be the last “person” or robot standing). In that scenario, the AI is not necessarily trying to intentionally kill us all, but our loss of life turns out to be an unintended (adverse, one would say) consequence of its tireless and intensely focused effort to produce as many paperclips as it can. ![]() Perhaps that’s too easy of a prediction and we could be falsely lulling ourselves into taking our eyes off the ball by only watching the military-related AI systems.Ĭonceivably it might be some other AI system that becomes wise enough to bootstrap itself into other automated systems, and like a spreading computer virus reaches out to takeover other non-AI systems that could be used to leverage itself into the grandest of power.Ī popular version of the AI winner-take-all theory is the infamous paperclip problem, involving an AI super-intelligence that upon given a seemingly innocent task of making paperclips, does so to such an extreme that it inexorably wipes us all out. This certainly makes some logical sense, since the AI is already then armed with a means to cause massive destruction, doing so right out of the box, so to speak. Science fiction movies are raft with indications that the AI running national defense systems is the most likely culprit. Is that the one that’s going to emerge to take over humanity? What about the AI that is being used to predict stock prices and aid investors in making stock picks? Nobody knows, though it would certainly seem ironic if an AI For Good instance was our actual downfall. Would that seemingly beneficial version of AI be the one that will miraculously find itself becoming sentient? ![]() ![]() AI is being used in the medical field to do analyses of X-rays and MRI’s to try and ascertain whether someone is likely to have cancer (see this recent announcement here about Google’s such efforts).
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