Hey software engineers. Want to know if you guys think it is possible for AI to get out of hand and cause harm to humanity.
Think a distributed artificial general intelligence with some sort of internal model that represents reality. In my opinion itโs entirely possible, given that it would have access to the internet where it could learn at a much higher rate than humans.
Edit: Seems a lot of ppl are saying AI isnโt a threat because computers are too โdumbโ and are only good for doing fast computations. Iโm not saying computers have to gain complete sentience like a human. Iโm saying if there is a distributed AI that can evaluate different world states based on its model of reality (similar to how a chess AI determines its next move based on its internal representation of the state of the chess board), it would simply be better than any human at playing โchessโ in the real world to accomplish whatever it was programmed to accomplish. If its goals or its means of accomplishing its goals harm humanity, then so be it.
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In reality AI is super dumb.
There is no way we are reaching even remotely close to human like intelligence with current hardware / software.
We may make ourselves feel better here and there with isolated AI use cases like playing chess, change lanes etc but overall AI is light years behind human brain.
People like using this word as a buzz word because people interpret AI as magic.
Computers are fast. Not smart. At the end of the day it's garbage in garbage out.
There is nothing to be afraid of. Machines aren't taking over you.
However...AI (ML, really) is replacing many many data-entry style jobs. I've seen this firsthand where a model can replace a team of data associates, with better prediction accuracy. It's a usable technology which will make some jobs obsolete, like computing itself has made manual bookkeepers obsolete. It won't do everything, though.
They should start by banning Tesla autopilot on public roads.
If someone creates something that can maintain an accurate model of reality and modify it based on its learnings, I honestly think thatโs all it would take. Part of its model of reality would be itself, which means it could teach itself to learn better, exponentially increasing its learning rate. I think AI is a slippery slope and a super intelligence could sneak up on us before we know it