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| Woz thinks AI will not be as threatening as feared and will have far more benefits |
| 2016-10-12 |
| [nextBIGfuture] At one point I had concerns about AI because if you replace brains and then all of a sudden companies with people lose money and the machines do everything for us and we have no jobs left, I thought that way and then I totally reversed myself for a lot of reasons. One being that Moore's law isn't going to make those machines smart enough to think really the way a human does. Another is when machines can out think humans they can't be as intuitive and say what will I do next and what is an approach that might get me there. They can't figure out those sorts of things. Wozniak thinks the biggest impact on humanity in the next couple of decades will come from areas that we can apply artificial intelligence. Wozniak is leaving out biotech and quantum computers because he is not close enough to those areas. Virtual reality is another area that Wozniak thinks will be big. He thinks machines might become independent thinkers. But if they do, they're going to be partners of humans. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Woz hasn't read Kurzweil's book "How to Create a Mind". It isn't done with a bigger iPhone. The world Jeopardy champions have been beaten by a computer. |
| Posted by: KBK 2016-10-12 21:39 |
| #10 we have no jobs left I have been hearing this my entire life with every new technology. It's nonsense. When the telephone was being rapidly adopted, extrapolating forward, in 50 years, everyone would need to become a telephone switchboard operator. And of course, computers are called computers, because large numbers of mostly women worked at manually performing complex calculations and they were called computers. New jobs will come along. Although there some jobs that would appear to have poor future prospects - long distance truck drivers in particular. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2016-10-12 17:00 |
| #9 I'm nervous. If robots who serve us Determine our natural purpose Is turning things shitty, It sure won't be pretty When earnest AI learns to curb us. Grrrr. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-10-12 15:49 |
| #8 The thing missing from AI, IMHO, is the sense of self/desire to improve ones environment. The basic WHY of human creative activity isn't there. Of course I'm not sure I want robots asking these kinds of questions on their own....... |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-10-12 11:59 |
| #7 Why would we want to dumb them down? To be fair, the harnessing of our illogical functions, creativity - innovation, is a strength if most of the time a failure. Let me know when a robot can grab a roll of duct tape and a modified trash bag to re-direct a water leak into the sump pump. But I did like the ST:TNG episode where, and I poorly remember, a colony was dying because they become so generationally dependent upon the AI that when it broke nobody could fix it, and LaForge was like, "Come'on, I was fixing things like this in kindergarten." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-10-12 11:37 |
| #6 We could leave. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-12 11:10 |
| #5 Fears of AI are way overblown. I, for one, welcome our new self-driving-sexbot-Skynet overlords. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-10-12 10:40 |
| #4 ...to join the ranks of other uninformed voters? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-12 10:16 |
| #3 machines smart enough to think really the way a human does Why would we want to dumb them down? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-10-12 10:00 |
| #2 Hot sex robots will be the end of humanity. Birthrates will plummet once the fembots are affordable enough. AI won't have the time to become a danger. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-10-12 09:49 |
| #1 Some people had the same view of Obama 8 years ago in the face of warnings. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-12 09:36 |