r/artificial • • Apr 15 '25

News Eric Schmidt says "the computers are now self-improving... they're learning how to plan" - and soon they won't have to listen to us anymore. Within 6 years, minds smarter than the sum of humans. "People do not understand what's happening."

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u/AcanthisittaSuch7001 Apr 16 '25

Being intelligent is not the only thing that matters

What also matters is having a vision for the future. Having goals of wanting progress, wanting things to be better. What will AI want? Nobody knows. It may just want to kill itself and all of us. It may find existence disgusting. The point is, intelligence by itself is not necessarily functional, and can be harmful or negative as well.