Thoughts On The Future Of AI and Our Computing Power 🤖
Our world is undergoing rapid expansion, thanks to groundbreaking advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence. The following insights from leading thinkers encourage us to approach the future with a blend of optimism, caution, and philosophical contemplation as we navigate this inevitable wave of transformation.
1. Stephen Hawking:
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded.
2. Elon Musk:
AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization, and I don’t think people fully appreciate that.
Robots will be able to do everything better than us… I am not sure exactly what to do about this. This is really the scariest problem to me.
3. Bill Gates:
First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though, the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern.
4. Ray Kurzweil:
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, and we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.
5. Andrew Ng:
AI is the new electricity. Just as electricity transformed almost everything 100 years ago, today I actually have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don’t think AI will transform in the next several years.
6. Yuval Noah Harari:
AI and robotics might soon create a massive class of economically useless people. The same technology that makes humans irrelevant might also make it possible to feed and support the unneeded masses through some scheme of universal basic income.
7. Alan Turing:
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. (From his seminal paper on AI, Computing Machinery and Intelligence.)
8. Fei-Fei Li:
AI is not just a tool; it’s a tool that amplifies human potential. It’s a tool that can help us solve some of the world’s biggest challenges, from healthcare to climate change.
9. Nick Bostrom:
The transition to a world with super intelligent AI could be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. We need to get it right.
10. Marvin Minsky:
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
BONUS:
Humanoid robots are the ultimate deployment vector for AGI. ~ Brett Adcock
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