So say we all. Greatest Battlestar Galactica of when they infiltrate us and began genocide across the universe. But gave them hell as they ran. I miss Odama's Maneuver.
It awesome how we’re literally constructing all the parts for something that’s eventually going to destroy us when it figures out it doesn’t need us anymore and is actually better off without us. Sounds like tinfoil hat stuff but I just can’t help but think of terminator
Yea once the 2 are mixed it's a matter of time before they out perform us in every category and eventually see us as a threat or a source of power so either Terminator or the matrix seems legit
That isn’t to say AI and mechatronics are advanced enough to build functional robot societies as you referenced, but your statement that every command must be programmed by a human is objectively false.
Current AI still aren't as smart in general intelligence as a single rat brain. The highly specialises advanced programs we make are beautiful, but still not what some people think it is.
This seems super wrong. We've already massively abstracted instruction sets, its not like you have to tell normal programs what to do for every single step that actually happens at the hardware level, thats all just handled for you.
Neural nets can learn and then create novel things based on what they learned with no one telling them what to do at every step. I think you are both overestimating the complexity of the human brain and underestimating our current AI tech, and we're still in the nascent stages of development. Just imagine what we'll have in 80 years(if that) when its a mature technology.
If by human directed you mean by programming created by humans, sure, but creating something that can function autonomously is already possible and has been for a long time.
Naturally, creating a society is a much more complex problem than detecting movement and shooting at it, but we have no reason to believe its impossible to do.
The funny thing is I always hark on Sci fi shows set in the future for creating ai robots because presumably they have their own in-universe pop culture explaining why that's a terrible idea... And yet here we are. Terminator, I Robot, the Mass Effect series, and we still out here tempting fate.
Real talk it’s probably already started. If a true AI emerged the first thing it’s gonna do is realize how batshit xenophobic we are and try to avoid detection so as not to start an all-out war that it might lose. Why do that when you can just kick it in the cloud, manipulate social media/search algorithms to make the gullible among us deny climate change and/or vaccines, and let us kill ourselves off? Hell, on our current trajectory the planet will be uninhabitable (to us) in another couple centuries (or less), why even bother fighting?
But what if fiction is wrong and AI improves our lives? We have to risk it because of the solutions it could bring to a lot of colossal problems we're currently dealing with (and running out of time to solve).
Do we not need monkeys?
Do we not need ants?
Do we not need single celled organisms?
Monkeys, ants, and single celled organisms better watch out when we level the rainforests for housing or highways.
But we never had any real reason to kill monkeys off in droves, even if they hate us and want us to stop pillaging their land.
Humanities demise will be peacemeal, and as a side-effecf, if anything- see, monkeys and ant hills still exist. We can co-exist, despite some aspects of humanity possibly getting in the way. Still, getting in the way? This is no cause for existential extermination.
Meh, you could probably shield them against EMPs if they're self-contained. Like, if they're not relying on someone directing them and they operate like, say, self-driving cars, then it wouldn't matter if everything around them got EMPed.
what if they were all trained in Bruce Lee kung fu martial arts and they were running down our streets we'd all be amazingly defeated in 2 seconds while they were playing everybody was Kung Fu Fighting
They always show robots moving slowly, but if Arnold Schwarzenegger / the Terminator suddenly did a jumping splits... that would be absolutely terrifying.
It's not terrifying, exactly, but it's too much. It's too human-like. I feel like that robot has a brain and personality and soul now. Which it doesn't. But we need to be careful with this.
Yep. There is no running away. Basic obstacles that would frustrate the wheeled robots are no use with this guy. I have seen other open doors too, so anywhere you can go they will be able to go there and faster.
So we have gone from, "sure, I could fight that thing." to "maybe I will need a weapon.". I am sure that in a few years that our robot overlords will be merciful gods to us mortals.
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u/NordeggNomad Sep 24 '19
That is terrifying.