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There’s no one unifying vision of how super-smart artificial intelligence (AI) will change the future. Depending on who you ask, it could take our jobs, turn the Earth into paperclips, or kill off humankind.
Shimon Whiteson, an AI researcher at the University of Amsterdam, has a more hopeful vision: AI won’t just make our futures better and safer, it will solve humanity’s worst problems — even if getting there may require some uncomfortable compromises.
“I really think in the future we are all going to be cyborgs,” Whiteson said. “[People] have a tendency to think, there’s us and then there’s computers. Maybe the computers will be our friends and maybe they will be our enemies, but we’ll be separate from them. But I think that’s not true at all, I think the human and the computer are really, really quickly becoming one tightly coupled cognitive unit.”
Take the smartphone, Whiteson said. The devices now make information available to anyone with an internet connection. So, in a sense, smartphones already tightly integrate with, enhance, and supplement human intelligence.
It’s too hard to think about these really big problems with our little brains. We need to augment our brains with something that will make them smarter. We need to make computers so smart, they can help us solve these big problems.”
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
I think humanities problems can be solved with common sense.
originally posted by: OhOkYeah
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
I think humanities problems can be solved with common sense.
Hasn't worked for thousands of years, not going to happen anytime soon.
I don't think "augmenting" with AI will solve our problems either. Humans will always find a way to incite conflict. People love conflict.