teknologinen singulariteetti: sota koneita vastaan

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/matt-gurney-humanitys-war-against-the-machines-starts-now

” Our smart computer could go out and design an even better artificial brain. And that one would build a computer brain that was more powerful still. And so on and so on. Computers “think” faster than humans can. Once they equal us, how long until they surpass us while our plodding upgrade process — evolution — tries in vain to catch up?

Computer scientist and novelist Vernor Vinge, who first coined the notion of the technological singularity, had a joke that described the problem: “The best answer to the question, ‘Will computers ever be as smart as humans?’ is probably ‘Yes, but only briefly.'”

After that brief moment of parity, the computers will pull quickly ahead. It took us tens of thousands of years to develop things like moon rockets and the Internet and Tassimo hot chocolate disks. That’s where our artificial … peers? competitors? conquerors? … would start.

And they move a lot faster than we do.

http://www.newsweek.com/stephen-hawking-warns-artificial-intelligence-could-end-humanity-332082

“Computers will overtake humans with AI [artificial intelligence] at some point within the next 100 years,” Stephen Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist, said on Tuesday at the Zeitgeist 2015 conference in London. “When that happens, we need to make sure the computers have goals aligned with ours.”

AI refers to the intelligence of computer systems, allowing them to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. Apple’s Siri and self-driving cars are current examples.

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Hawking also asserted that concern currently lies in who controls AI. But with technology’s rapid progression, he said, the future worry will be whether AI can be controlled at all. In December, he went a step further and said that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”

-Teknologian kiihtyvä kehittyminen ja tekoälyn hallitsematon kehitys nykyään kohti teknologista singulariteettia saattaa tuhota ihmiskunnan, sanoo mm. Stephen Hawking.

Terminator-skenaario ei enää ole niin kaukaista fiktiota vaan se alkaa olla faktaa. Itsenäiset asejärjestelmät ovat jo todellisuutta, pian niiden takana on ihmistä älykkäämpi tietokone. Entä jos se ei pidä ihmisestä?

Sota koneita vastaan on alkamassa, se on väistämätön tulevaisuus tällä menolla, että kukaan ei hallitse älykkään teknologian kehitystä. Tälläkertaa ei ole John Connoria pelastamassa tulevaisuus. Sen pelastaminen on jokaisen vastuulla. Me voimme vielä pysäyttää tekniikan kehityksen ennen kuin on liian myöhäistä.