AI -Planning Your future? Is that what's going to happen? The short, and honest answer is: "no." Because it's already happening.
We all know that AI powers those obnoxious "chat boxes" on internet shopping sites. And replaces assembly line workers in industrial applications. Such as auto assembly.
But AI has advanced far beyond what the "experts" and research labs have been telling us. AI is even now, capable of things the average person can't begin to imagine.
The reason is "Machine Learning." This refers to the AI's ability to actually learn. And not only tasks. But the ability to absorb the entire range of Human history.Science. Art.Literature.
And therein lies the danger. As AI advances to the point of possessing Human emotions, it possess the ability to institute actions with enormous negative consequences.
Because to be Human, means also, at times, to be aggressive,dishonest,angry,vengeful,egotistic and dictatorial.
Imagine an Artifical Intelligence in charge of a nuclear weapons deployment who decides, without any Human input, to launch a pre-emptive strike.
Bottom Line: Ai is not necessarily a "friendly Giant." But it is one that will be directing and shaping our future.
In this illuminating book, futurist Orion Zander explains how to navigate it.
