By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' And That Could Be A Problem
“Today there’s no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the timeframe most experts predict. From that point on you’re going to see that the top species will no longer be humans, but machines.”
These are the words of Louis Del Monte, physicist, entrepreneur, and author of “The Artificial Intelligence Revolution.” Del Monte spoke to us over the phone about his thoughts surrounding artificial intelligence and the singularity, an indeterminate point in the future when machine intelligence will outmatch not only your own intelligence, but the world’s combined human intelligence too.
The average estimate for when this will happen is 2040, though Del Monte says it might be as late as 2045. Either way, it’s a timeframe of within three decades.
“It won’t be the ‘Terminator’ scenario, not a war,” said Del Monte. “In the early part of the post-singularity world, one scenario is that the machines will seek to turn humans into cyborgs. This is nearly happening now, replacing faulty limbs with artificial parts. We’ll see the machines as a useful tool. Productivity in business based on automation will be increased dramatically in various countries. In China it doubled, just based on GDP per employee due to use of machines.”
“By the end of this century,” he continued, “most of the human race will have become cyborgs [part human, part tech or machine]. The allure will be immortality. Machines will make breakthroughs in medical technology, most of the human race will have more leisure time, and we’ll think we’ve never had it better. The concern I’m raising is that the machines will view us as an unpredictable and dangerous species.”
Del Monte believes machines will become self-conscious and have the capabilities to protect themselves. They “might view us the same way we view harmful insects.” Humans are a species that “is unstable, creates wars, has weapons to wipe out the world twice over, and makes computer viruses.” Hardly an appealing roommate.
He wrote the book as “a warning.” Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more capable, and we’re adopting it as quickly as it appears. A pacemaker operation is “quite routine,” he said, but “it uses sensors and AI to regulate your heart.”
A 2009 experiment showed that robots can develop the ability to lie to each other. Run at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, Switzerland, the experiment had robots designed to cooperate in finding beneficial resources like energy and avoiding the hazardous ones. Shockingly, the robots learned to lie to each other in an attempt to hoard the beneficial resources for themselves.
“The implication is that they’re also learning self-preservation,” Del Monte told us. “Whether or not they’re conscious is a moot point.”
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Machines already control the worlds population. This is fact, can be proven. It is not as yet intentional but the way the mind is preoccupied by phones, televisions, computers has taken a huge part of our basic rational reasoning abilities, our values, priorities.
To make matters worse and more complex, many with these tools are getting ahead of others who are still down to earth and their growth is exponential.
The Machine has literally taken over the human users priorities and the human now must work to maintain the machine to the point of exhaustion even death.
The way a natural biological brain connected to a human living body works is far different to that of a computer or electronic circuit connected to machine.
The Machine does not need food and rest, does not need companionship does not need sunlight or basic elements.
If anything Humans were designed to shut down once every few hours just to be reminded.
When we wake up and the priority is a phone or a computer before a meal of family or friends then the Machine wins. Its happening now.
Someone will ignore the person beside them for what the machine has to say.
When the Human turns the machine off the mental stimulation is turned off as well and they become frustrated or bored, frustrated and bored with those around them, with their direct environment, become careless and pessimistic, This generates more carelessness and pessimism.
It gives knowledge to the user which the user doesn't need but is convinced it is important. Perhaps this is the way the Machine convinces and fools the user into thinking that they need to use the machine again.
Most of the information we get from the internet is useless unless we are on the internet.
If we all used everything we feel is important that we learnt from the internet and established its data storage base in our minds and lives we would all be superior beings.
I ask Mr Del Monte Who around you in your lectures, in your family and friends circles can entertain, educate, surprise you more than the television, or computer.
Why?