Hawking: "Artificial-intelligence may be biggest mistake humanity ever makes"

[DrLeftover]

2 May

With the Hollywood blockbuster Transcendence playing in cinemas, with Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman showcasing clashing visions for the future of humanity, it's tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science fiction. But this would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake in history.

Artificial-intelligence (AI) research is now progressing rapidly. Recent landmarks such as self-driving cars, a computer winning at Jeopardy! and the digital personal assistants Siri, Google Now and Cortana are merely symptoms of an IT arms race fuelled by unprecedented investments and building on an increasingly mature theoretical foundation. Such achievements will probably pale against what the coming decades will bring.

The potential benefits are huge; everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history.

Unfortunately, it might also be the last,....

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-transcendence-looks-at-the-implications-of-artificial-intelligence--but-are-we-taking-ai-seriously-enough-9313474.html

 

[Evil Eye]

Well that's not exactly news, did they need more pages or something?

 

[DrLeftover]

I think the difference is in how adaptive and self-learning the current litter of AI's is.

It appears to be stuff like this that he is worried about:

DARPA is working on its own deep-learning project for natural-language processing

https://gigaom.com/2014/05/02/darpa-is-working-on-its-own-deep-learning-project-for-natural-language-processing/

 

[Evil Eye]

Maybe. I suppose it is good to raise awareness, in any case.

Doesn't DARPA research just about everything?

 

[DrLeftover]

RE: Hawking: "Artificial-intelligence may be biggest mistake humanity ever makes&...

Maybe. I suppose it is good to raise awareness, in any case.

Doesn't DARPA research just about everything?

if it can in any way be used either as, or against, a weapon or in the 'defense industries'....


yes.

 

[DrLeftover]

Or maybe they are just ....


[video=dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11lvw_thomas-dolby-she-blinded-me-with-sc_music