COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Stephen Hawking is
concerned that artificial intelligence could replace humans.
The world-renowned
physicist fears that somebody will create AI that will keep improving itself
until it’s eventually superior to people.
Well, Stephen has tossed around a lot of different warnings
in recent years – warnings on robots, aliens, and climate change.
In his old age, he's beginning to sound almost like a
scientific tent-preacher.
But I think he's right on a new form of life.
And I don't see anything wrong with it.
Why should evolution and change stop with our rather shabby
species?
Our destiny, it seems to me, to be to serve as transitional
creatures, no different than Neanderthal or Brontosaurus, in what appears the
endless march of change.
Why should the emergence of robots/AI be viewed in any
different light?
Indeed, I think there is a touch of hi-tech Luddism in such
warnings.
In any case, we cannot stop the advance of knowledge and its
applications to new things.
We can't even stop the hydrogen bomb, and it seems to me a
whole lot more dangerous than robots/AI.
Indeed, maybe only the dominance of machines will end such
horrors.
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