So Facebook set up an experiment whereby two chatbots were programmed to 'talk' to each other, which they sort of did: Bob: i can i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to Bob: you i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me Bob: i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me Until they started deviating from script (apparently Alice's ball chat was scripted?) and making up their own language in order to communicate more efficiently, at which point for some reason the scientist running the experiment shat themselves and shut them down. Some of the most intelligent and/or knowledgeable people on the planet such as Stephen Hawking have concerns: Scientists and tech luminaries including Bill Gates have said that AI could lead to unforeseen consequences. In 2014 Professor Stephen Hawking warned that AI could mean the end of the human race. He said: ‘It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. ‘Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.’ Billionaire inventor Elon Musk said last month: ‘I keep sounding the alarm bell, but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react, because it seems too ethereal.’ All quite interesting, we currently have robots that are well capable of causing harm and I think it's planned to have more domestically to help out elderly people etc. What do you reckon, are we dooming ourselves to a Terminator style apocalypse or will it be aight. Friend...?
The rate of adoption and development is rather frightening. The quants who built a lot of the algorithms in place in many global daily businesses don't know how their algorithms work, and those algorithms are creating new algorithms. If it is not controlled/managed properly, it could turn into a massive ****ing meltdown.
There does seem to be cause for concern. If everything works as intended then fine but these are extremely complex machines and the potential for dangerous errors is pretty big. I'm not sure how I'd feel about a robot acting as a carer for my parents when one malfunction could mean snapped limbs. Never mind if the code gets jumbled enough for it to gain sentience and start plotting their downfall.
I think it's one of the things which could have been possible, like living on Mars, but it will never happen as we'll wipe ourselves out before it happens. Hawkin Reckons we could only have a century left.
He wants to buy ten fags, his destination is the shops A tinfoil suit and a hat like Robocop If you ask him... then he'll do a bodypop Like terminator... yeah he just won't stop
