Stop looking at the red dot. Take a step back and look around you.
"True" AI is here and it's been here for some time. You're communicating with it right now.
It's just that we find it so hard to comprehend it's form of "intelligence", because we're expecting true AI to be a super-smart super-rational humanoid being from sci-fi novels.
But what would a super-smart super rational being worth 1 billion minds look/feel like to one human being ? How would you communicate with it ?
Many people childishly believe that "we" have control over "it".
You don't. We don't.
The more we get used to it being inside our minds, the harder it becomes to shut it down without provoking total chaos in our society. Even with the chaos, there is no one person (or group) who can shut it down.
But "we" make the machines ! Well... yes, a little bit..
Would we be able to build this advanced hardware without computers ? Doesn't this look like machines reproducing themselves with a little bit of help from "us" ?
Think about the human beings from the Internet's perspective - what are we for it ? Nodes in a graph. In brain terms - we are neurons, while "it" is the brain.
But it's not self-aware ! What does that even mean ?
Finally, consider that AlphaGo would have been impossible without the Internet and the hardware of today.
And that "true" AI that everybody expects somewhere on the horizon will also be impossible without the technology that we have today.
If so, then what we have right now is the incipient version of what we'll have tomorrow - that "true" AI won't come out of thin air, it will evolve out of what we have right now.
Just another way of saying the same thing - it's here.
Is this good or bad ? Well, that's a totally different discussion.
It's just that we find it so hard to comprehend it's form of "intelligence", because we're expecting true AI to be a super-smart super-rational humanoid being from sci-fi novels.
But what would a super-smart super rational being worth 1 billion minds look/feel like to one human being ? How would you communicate with it ?
Many people childishly believe that "we" have control over "it". You don't. We don't.
The more we get used to it being inside our minds, the harder it becomes to shut it down without provoking total chaos in our society. Even with the chaos, there is no one person (or group) who can shut it down.
But "we" make the machines ! Well... yes, a little bit..
Would we be able to build this advanced hardware without computers ? Doesn't this look like machines reproducing themselves with a little bit of help from "us" ?
Think about the human beings from the Internet's perspective - what are we for it ? Nodes in a graph. In brain terms - we are neurons, while "it" is the brain.
But it's not self-aware ! What does that even mean ?
Finally, consider that AlphaGo would have been impossible without the Internet and the hardware of today.
And that "true" AI that everybody expects somewhere on the horizon will also be impossible without the technology that we have today.
If so, then what we have right now is the incipient version of what we'll have tomorrow - that "true" AI won't come out of thin air, it will evolve out of what we have right now.
Just another way of saying the same thing - it's here.
Is this good or bad ? Well, that's a totally different discussion.