Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

Ever-raging though they seem to be, almost every emotion you have ever felt is rational. I would argue that emotions are a form of intelligence in that they are triggered very predictably as a result of logical reasoning, even if that reasoning is sometimes unconscious.

While those emotions eventually manifest themselves in the form of feelings and sensations that we feel in our ‘hearts’ and our bodies, and while their effects can be observed in our behaviours and actions, they undoubtedly originate in our intelligence.

‘The only way to stop the progress of technology after a breakout point is to do the most primitive thing – for everyone to make a conscious decision to stop developing it any further.

Almost everything you’ve ever seen in science fiction has already become a science fact.

teaching AI to help us communicate is a good thing because it signals to the machines while they are in their infancy that a world where we can understand the cows and bees and accurately understand our fellow humans is a much more connected and empathic world.

The second inevitable is that in the next few years, as we compete commercially and politically to create superior machine intelligence, AI will sooner or later become smarter than we are. That, too, is inevitable.

Steve Omohundro, a computer scientist and physicist who specializes in how artificial intelligence will affect society, outlined the three basic drives most intelligent beings – which includes us as much as it does AI – will follow to achieve goals. The first of these is self-preservation. This is simple to understand. In order to achieve a goal, o

it’s not hard to do the right thing. It’s just hard to know what the right thing is.

Soon we will no longer be part of the conversation. Machines will only deal with other machines.

‘Change is the only constant.’ I’m sure you’ve heard that expression before. It’s inspiring but, unfortunately, not true. Any analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is not constant. It’s exponential. An exponential trend is a trend that rises, or expands, at an accelerating rate.