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Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
“But the ramifications of such a creation, whether it be our saving grace or demise, are still unknown to us”. It is to my belief that at first, artificial intelligence (AI) will prove to be beneficial or our “saving grace”, but at some point further down the road when we have achieved “full-blown artificial intelligence”, yes, I do believe AI will ultimately become a significant problem to humans.
Michio Kaku had a huge influence on me when researching the benefits of artificial intelligence in both health and every day convenience. Kaku believes “that in the future, humans will be deeply impacted by adding computer parts to their own biology”; allowing the “paralyzed to walk (exoskeletons), the blind to see (artificial retinas), or the Alzheimer patient to remember (artificial hippocampus), nanobots and nanoprobes heal us internally versus surgery, and adult stem cells to assist in regenerating brain tissue”, to name several examples of AI benefiting our health. A couple of examples of how AI could benefit us in our day-to-day life might be, “Brain Net”; Brain Net is “where we globally exchange thoughts, memories, and emotions with each other in seconds”, or “using avatars and surrogates as the norm”. Artificial intelligence would be aiding the humans in our race of survival.
That being said, I also believe that when we have accomplished full-blown intelligence, it could lead to our demise. Ray Kurzwell has many predictions for technology in the future; Kurzwell predicts that by 2029, humans will have completed reverse engineering of the human brain, allowing us to apply this knowledge to technology, and inturn, technology will continue to grow tenfold and become better and smarter than us. “Oxforford philosopher Nick Bostrom calls superintelligence, a sort of technological singularity where computationally engineered programs become self-sufficient and develop their own evolutionary agendas”. If artificial intelligence does become fully achieved, then robots will think and ask the same questions we do and will ultimately become a contender in the race of survival.
In conclusion, a quote that stuck out to me throughout researching was one by Leonard I. Sweet, “The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create”.
Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
“But the ramifications of such a creation, whether it be our saving grace or demise, are still unknown to us”. It is to my belief that at first, artificial intelligence (AI) will prove to be beneficial or our “saving grace”, but at some point further down the road when we have achieved “full-blown artificial intelligence”, yes, I do believe AI will ultimately become a significant problem to humans.
Michio Kaku had a huge influence on me when researching the benefits of artificial intelligence in both health and every day convenience. Kaku believes “that in the future, humans will be deeply impacted by adding computer parts to their own biology”; allowing the “paralyzed to walk (exoskeletons), the blind to see (artificial retinas), or the Alzheimer patient to remember (artificial hippocampus), nanobots and nanoprobes heal us internally versus surgery, and adult stem cells to assist in regenerating brain tissue”, to name several examples of AI benefiting our health. A couple of examples of how AI could benefit us in our day-to-day life might be, “Brain Net”; Brain Net is “where we globally exchange thoughts, memories, and emotions with each other in seconds”, or “using avatars and surrogates as the norm”. Artificial intelligence would be aiding the humans in our race of survival.
That being said, I also believe that when we have accomplished full-blown intelligence, it could lead to our demise. Ray Kurzwell has many predictions for technology in the future; Kurzwell predicts that by 2029, humans will have completed reverse engineering of the human brain, allowing us to apply this knowledge to technology, and inturn, technology will continue to grow tenfold and become better and smarter than us. “Oxforford philosopher Nick Bostrom calls superintelligence, a sort of technological singularity where computationally engineered programs become self-sufficient and develop their own evolutionary agendas”. If artificial intelligence does become fully achieved, then robots will think and ask the same questions we do and will ultimately become a contender in the race of survival.
In conclusion, a quote that stuck out to me throughout researching was one by Leonard I. Sweet, “The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create”.