AI, survival of the fittest
When I read some of the article on AI, it’s very clear on what AI can do or will be capable of doing. Consensus is forming that there is nothing that human can do but AI can’t.
*At bottom of this thread you will find those links in case if you are interested.
The question is be, where we go from here.
Revolution and Evolution
Let’s have some background before we jump into AI.
Revolutions are fast and happens in few generations.
Cognitive revolution ~70,000 years ago
Agricultural revolution ~12,000 years ago
Scientific revolution ~500 years ago
Industrial revolution ~250 years ago
(Did you notice that each successive revolution is happening faster than the last? As world is shrinking with internet & social media, current technology revolution is driven by collective global intelligence instead of isolated individual minds.)
Evolutions are slow, over many generations by natural selection (Natural selection is the key).
Human evolution started 5 to 7 million years ago when Chimpanzees and Human diverged from a common ancestors.
Book by Yuval Noah Harari, Sapience: A Brief History of Humankind, may provide more insight on revolution and evolution if you are interested.
What is Technology?
Technology is a technique to apply knowledge to improve quality of human life (or at lease intended to improve). Technology has evolved during revolution and evolution, both. From stone tools made by human ancestor ~3 million years ago to AI super intelligence now.
What is AI?
AI is a technology on steroid that will make evolution look like revolution.
It will take less than half the time of Industrial revolution.
It will take over human (evolve) like a natural selection.
What does it mean?
The way AI is developing, and the ability AI may have in future, is limitless. It may be the first human invented technology where human may have little or almost no control at all. Super intelligent evolved race or species, ruling over inferior species (including human and chimpanzees).
Chimpanzees are still around, however we all know at what capacity. Human race is superior, feels that everything is at their mercy, alive and dead, on this earth and beyond.
AI will be a new species, developed by human, however growing and evolving by itself, and no further input needed from Human. The same way human don’t/didn’t need input from chimpanzees anymore for their further evolution or revolution.
It will be up to AI to decide if human race should be spared. If AI sees human coming in their way, no reason to keep human around, except in the “cage” where AI feels safe.
AI arises...
Why AI progress won’t stop, regardless of the outcome.
Primarily because of human nature, same nature that helped human to survive during evolution & revolution.
Fear: When in fear, human fight or flight, and survive
Greed: Accumulation of resources (food, shelter, tools, money and power) during abundance to survive in famine.
Currently, human greed dominates human fear in developing AI, accelerating the progress with collective intelligence as discussed earlier.
Very unlikely that countries will unite and form common guard-rails; instead they may secretly accelerate the development of AI. Fear from other human and greed for power.
Human developed AI will have same traits to survive, fear & greed. It just the matter of time when AI’s survival mechanism will kick in. When it does, human greed will evaporate and human fear will rise. That may be too late for human to survive. Game Over!
Then what?
Fear and greed has to be balanced. If human race can’t do that, nature will do it for them. And, that would be ok. Better species should arise :)
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