The plot of artificial intelligence destroying human beings has appeared in many science fiction works. For example, in " Terminator ", Skynet launched a nuclear war, leading to the end of the world. Although this is a plot in a film and television work, such a plot may also occur in reality.
Earth Destruction Imagination
Kissinger recently issued a warning that although nuclear weapons were large enough to destroy the entire planet during the Cold War, advances in nuclear technology and artificial intelligence, and China and the United States are leaders in this regard, make The threat of doomsday is multiplying. This is also Kissinger's concern about artificial intelligence.
In fact, not only Kissinger is worried about the high intelligence of artificial intelligence, Hawking, Bill Gates, etc. have all expressed their concerns about artificial intelligence.
In 2008, at the Global Catastrophe Risk Conference held at Oxford University , an informal survey of experts on different global catastrophe risks showed that there is a 19% chance of human extinction by 2100.
The probability map of the 2008 Risk Conference
Among them, molecular nanotechnology and super-intelligent AI tied for the first place, with a probability of 5%.
So what is artificial intelligence?
artificial intelligence, refers to the intelligence displayed by the machine made by humans. Generally artificial intelligence refers to the technology of rendering human intelligence through ordinary computer programs.
But not all artificial intelligence is worth worrying about. The weak artificial intelligence in artificial intelligence does not need everyone to worry.
Weak artificial intelligence refers to intelligent machines that cannot produce real reasoning (Reasoning) and problem solving (Problem_solving), these machines just appear to be intelligent, but do not really have intelligence, nor do they have autonomous consciousness.Many of the so-called smart devices we use now actually belong to the weak artificial intelligence series. Although they are called weak artificial intelligence, they are not weak. Nowadays, the computing and storage capabilities of many weak artificial intelligences have far exceeded that of humans, such as the computers and smartphones we use now.
So what AI should these scientists worry about?
That is strong artificial intelligence
Strong artificial intelligence (Strong AI) or general artificial intelligence (Artificial General Intelligence) is artificial intelligence with the same intelligence as human beings, or beyond human beings, and can express all the intelligent behaviors of normal human beings.
and, such a machine would be considered sentient, with self-awareness of . They can think independently about problems and formulate the optimal solution to them, and have their own values and worldview system. The terrible thing about strong artificial intelligence is that it will have the ability to learn, calculate, and analyze by itself.
In the book " singularity is approaching " by Kurz Weil, technical director of Google's , Kurz Weil believes that the growth of artificial intelligence technology is exponential. Even in the book predicts in 2045, computer intelligence surpasses human beings.
In other words, if human beings really invent artificial intelligence that is as intelligent as the human brain in the future, then this artificial intelligence will continuously strengthen itself through learning, analysis, etc. in a very short period of time, thus far surpassing human beings in wisdom. This is also where strong artificial intelligence is scary.
The current speed of artificial intelligence development is still very fast
From 1997, the computer deep blue of IBM defeated the human chess world champion. By 2016, AlphaGo (AlphaGo) developed by Google defeated the world champion of human Go.
IBM Deep Blue Computer
This symbolizes Alpha, symbolizing that computer technology has entered the new information technology era of artificial intelligence, which is characterized by big data, big computing, and big decision-making, the trinity. Its intelligence is approaching that of human beings.
So it is not far away for strong artificial intelligence that equals or exceeds human intelligence. I don't know if everyone knows robot Sophia. Sophia is a humanoid robot developed by Hansen Robotics of Hong Kong . Her research and development aims to learn and adapt to human behavior, work with humans, and conduct interviews around the world. In October 2017, Sophia became a citizen of Saudi Arabia , the first robot in the world to obtain citizenship.
Robot Sophia
In March 2016, robot designer David Hanson asked Sophia: Do you want to destroy humanity? Sophia's answer was: "She will destroy humanity." Hansen smiled at the answer, seeming not to care about Sophia's threat. Although Sophia's answer may be a joke brought by the designer. But for strong artificial intelligence, what kind of emotions they will have on us after they have autonomous consciousness, this is still unknown.
Sophia and Hansen
Technology is a double-edged sword, as is artificial intelligence. If artificial intelligence is used correctly, it will greatly promote the social development of human beings. On the contrary, there may be situations like in the Terminator works. So let's make good use of artificial intelligence for the development of society.
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