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Artificial Intelligence: Stephen Hawking is worried
Other | Friday 31st July 2015 | Francesco
We are always moving further to being slaves to technology. We want digital assistants, self-driving vehicles and robot helpers. All these could cause our demise, that’s what Stephen Hawking declared in an interview recently.
Professor Stephen Hawking has again warned that humankind will likely face an uncertain future as technology learns be autonomous.
- He declared to the BBC that: 'The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Looking further ahead, there are no fundamental limits to what can be achieved. There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.'
The scientist along with more than 1,000 robotics experts and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers - such as technologist Elon Musk, and philosopher Noam Chomsky – has also signed a letter asking for a ban on autonomous dangerous weapons, or 'killer robots'.
- The letter, developed by the Future of Life Institute is warning of the danger of starting a military AI arms race. Robotics could drive the development armed drones that search and kill specific people based on their programming. Drones, which are now controlled by humans who are often thousands of miles away from the warzone.
"AI technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is - practically if not legally - feasible within years, not decades."
Robotic weapons could be useful to terrorists, dictators, and those wiaging wars. These weapons mean we could be in danger of nightmarish "Terminator" scenario.
There are plenty of movies around this interesting subject, famous cult movies like The Terminator, and this great one, Ex Machina:
What do you think?
