Prof Stephen Hawking: thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence

[weltweit]

Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30290540

Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence.

He told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

His warning came in response to a question about a revamp of the technology he uses to communicate, which involves a basic form of AI.

 

[2hats]

Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind

Not if mankind manages it first...

(e2a: technically equivalent).

 

[weltweit]

Not if mankind manages it first...

(e2a: technically equivalent).

I think his concern is that developed and physically unlimited AI could develop itself in a much faster way than Humans can evolve thus in a few years far outstripping us.

And, for example, perhaps we could not hold them to Asimov laws ..

 

[SpookyFrank]

Hawking's just about the cleverest bugger around, clearly we should start by killing him

 

[fishfinger]

I think he's just watched Automata, and got nightmares.

 

[butchersapron]

What a great title for such a shit thread and such a shit article.

The best thing about it was it being placed in UK P&P.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Stephen Hawking will be alright though, He'll just evolve into a Dalek

 

[weltweit]

I think he's just watched Automata, and got nightmares.

He did get a new speech processing system, with rudimentary AI, which predicts words for him more than his previous system used to.

 

[butchersapron]

He did get a new speech processing system, with rudimentary AI, which predicts words for him more than his previous system used to.

That's not AI - rudimentary or otherwise.

 

[weltweit]

What a great title for such a shit thread and such a shit article.

The best thing about it was it being placed in UK P&P.

Politics, current affairs and News!

The utterings of such prominent scientists qualify as news!

 

[butchersapron]

Politics, current affairs and News!

The utterings of such prominent scientists qualify as news!

For just the UK? Or maybe the world? And this gibberish hyped up headline? Why didn't you go with:

Terminator robots could end human life predicts Professor Stephen Hawking

 

[weltweit]

For just the UK? Or maybe the world? And this gibberish hyped up headline? Why didn't you go with:

Terminator robots could end human life predicts Professor Stephen Hawking

So people like you can't accuse me of being sensationalist!

 

[butchersapron]

So people like you can't accuse me of being sensationalist!

Look at the title of the thread.

 

[kittyP]

He did get a new speech processing system, with rudimentary AI, which predicts words for him more than his previous system used to.

*disables predictive text on phone*

*burns phone just in case*

 

[weltweit]

Look at the title of the thread.

I don't see anything wrong with it, anyhow it comes from the sub title of the article.

And it isn't as if machines aren't taking over bit by bit already, you don't need workers to weld cars together anymore and in Wolfsburg there has long been a lights out factory making engines.

 

[butchersapron]

I don't see anything wrong with it, anyhow it comes from the sub title of the article.

And it isn't as if machines aren't taking over bit by bit already, you don't need workers to weld cars together anymore and in Wolfsburg there has long been a lights out factory making engines.

Are they killing non AI folks too? Or is there some measure of control over them?

 

[weltweit]

Also:

Does rampant AI threaten humanity?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30293863

Pity the poor meat bags. They are doomed if a growing number of scientists, engineers and artists are to be believed.

Prof Stephen Hawking has joined a roster of experts worried about what follows when humans build a device or write some software that can properly be called intelligent.

 

[weltweit]

Are they killing non AI folks too? Or is there some measure of control over them?

Yes, at the moment there is control.
Could there always be?

 

[DotCommunist]

but very clever tools are not AI welt

I always wondered with AI how we'd ever really know if it wasn't just a machine made so cleverly we can't tell the difference. I suppose spontaneous creativity could be an indicator....but..

 

[butchersapron]

Yes, at the moment there is control.
Could there always be?

Yes.

 

[frogwoman]

Haven't these people read i, robot

 

[butchersapron]

Also:

Does rampant AI threaten humanity?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30293863

Drivel by people selling their novels and films and wanting to dress them up in some philo-sophical bollocks.

 

[weltweit]

but very clever tools are not AI welt

No indeed, clever machine tools are still tools, but I think it pertinent that machines increasingly do jobs which used to be done by humans. Even fairly basic machines. You are right that they are not AI though.

I always wondered with AI how we'd ever really know if it wasn't just a machine made so cleverly we can't tell the difference. I suppose spontaneous creativity could be an indicator....but..

 

[DotCommunist]

Haven't these people read i, robot

them semi-autonomous drones being theorised about woiuld break every one of asimov's laws

Always thought the three laws amounted to a perverse slavery basically lol

 

[weltweit]

.. Always thought the three laws amounted to a perverse slavery basically lol

But that is surely the point, if intelligent machines don't serve human needs things could quickly get out of control!

 

[frogwoman]

But that is surely the point, if intelligent machines don't serve human needs things could quickly get out of control!

Definitely no sensationalism here

 

[DotCommunist]

if its a thinking being it shouldn't have its chains written in to its basic mind- thats a shit thing to do.

 

[8ball]

He did get a new speech processing system, with rudimentary AI, which predicts words for him more than his previous system used to.

Slow news day.

 

[weltweit]

if its a thinking being it shouldn't have its chains written in to its basic mind- thats a shit thing to do.

I would have thought you might have been pro Asimov's 3 laws?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

That's not AI - rudimentary or otherwise.

It is, but vast amounts of standard computer technology are also AI, and they're all pretty much irrelevant to this cliche.