Best-selling science fiction writers have predicted we will one day invent AI machines to destroy us

[OddTrader]

Best-selling science fiction writers have long predicted that we will one day invent the machines that destroy us.

http://www.ejinsight.com/20170531-jobs-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/

Simon Johnson
A professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the co-author of White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, And Why It Matters To You.

Jobs in the age of artificial intelligence

The world has no shortage of pressing issues. There are 1.6 billion people living in acute poverty; an estimated 780 million adults are illiterate. Serious problems are not confined to the developing world: “deaths of despair,” for example, are raising mortality among white males in the United States. Even when advanced economies grow, they are not lifting all boats. Higher-income groups thrive while lower-income households and minority groups are consistently left behind.

And now some analysts suggest that new forms of computer programming will compound these developments, as algorithms, robots, and self-driving cars destroy middle-class jobs and worsen inequality. Even the summary term for this technology, Artificial Intelligence, sounds ominous. The human brain may be the “most complex object in the known universe,” but, as a species, we are not always collectively very smart. Best-selling science fiction writers have long predicted that we will one day invent the machines that destroy us.

 

[mlawson71]

Or perhaps we'll invent machines that will make our lives better. Not everything needs to be doom and gloom.

 

[OddTrader]

The scary future predictions we can’t ignore
June 2, 2017

http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...e/news-story/3a4882ae3a70dffa7ce74bb9d968778e

SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk believes humans must merge with machines and become like cyborgs so as not to become extinct.

“Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” Musk said at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

He said computers could communicate at a trillion bits per second while humans could only communicate 10 bits a second.

When Musk talks about artificial intelligence, he doesn’t just mean technologies like driverless cars, but machines that would become smarter than the smartest humans on Earth. He said it was a dangerous situation.

 

[Mtrader]

https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/03/...t-ready-for-the-first-robotic-empathy-crisis/

 

[OddTrader]

https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/03/...t-ready-for-the-first-robotic-empathy-crisis/

That voters/elections can be empathetically "manipulated" according to analytics result generated by AI specialists has been known proof for so many times/years around the globe by various political parties.

Already old news!

Not using AI then would become a news!