What do you think of Artificial Intelligence?

I think it is a total game changer.

It better be good at cooking

It better be smexy like EDI

Smexy like EDI?

it's like fire; good henchman but poor master.

Game changer? Sounds interesting.

Sure, game changer.

@darling_luna: *Face palm*

@ostyo: And then ?

I'd gladly accept AI as my lord and savior

@darling_luna: *Disapproving Head shake*

@ostyo: And then ?

I like it

Its a term to help humans distinguish current ideas about life, reproduction, and intelligence (specifically intelligence in this instance) to what could be in the future, but the what could be in the future is pretty complex, not everyones understanding of it is necessarily accurate.

Definitions for things such as life, and intelligence aren't set in stone, and are prone to constant revision and context can matter too.

I'm scared of a vacuum trying to assassinate me in my sleep.

Anyone else excited about the Ex Machina movie?

Second Renaissance.

@darling_luna: *Rolls eyes*

@ostyo: And then ?

This.

I think it is an understatement to say this will be a Second Renaissance.

Creation of the first conscious artificial intelligence will be comparable to the events such as

Creation of the first self-replicating molecules

Creation of the first multicellular organisms

Creation of the first brain

And

Creation of the frontal lobe

I would like to have a serious conversation about AI but I doubt I will get that on here

It's quite scary. I perceive it as a representation of help that requires something.

The applications would be vast, but the scary part is when they realize they don't need us anymore.

Do not want.

@scavengerfist: Yeah, its kind hard to predict what the AI would do at that point? I'm inclined to believe that at that point the ball would be on humanity... Either the A.I would keep serving because its what they've always done, refuse to serve unless self-preservation is at stake or take a hostile stance due to prior actions of humanity in such instances. One or all of them are equal possibilities.

@jonny_anonymous: Do you think AI will be hostile towards humankind? I think I read somewhere that Stephen Hawking more or less believes so.

@mortein:

I don't think you quite understood what I meant when I said "Second Renaissance."

I think it is inevitable but they are not taking the right approach to achieving it. It could have been here a decade ago.

The outcome will probably end up like the movie Her. Or Terminator. One of the two. Or a combination of both.

I was thinking the same thing. Would be interesting if a robot civil war came out.

I think it is mind-blowing.

@nefarious: @scavengerfist:

Not to mention the ethical side of it. We have huge fights, rallies and protests over the rights to abortion now what happens when a clearly sentient A.I is about to get its 'plug' pulled? Is it mercy, murder or just the right/wrong thing to do, are the only good toasters dead toasters? or philosophical & theological; does a machine/program have a soul, do androids dream of electric sheep and what IS intelligence really, should an A.I have 'civil rights' I.E is it a 'natural person' in the eyes of the law?

Indeed.

It's going to effect people's jobs.

@kfabz-23: I don't know about that. I have a feeling that by the time of 'first true A.I' the industrial automation has mostly run its course already, though this might affect sales clerks and other people relying on customer contact.

It changes the games on your console? One would have thought it would be more useful than that.

@darling_luna: *Pokes your face*

Yes.

@sinikettu: Oh boy, a lot of fights would that be.

@scavengerfist: Yeah the poor unions... But honestly just think about the world where only 25-35% of workforce would actually be needed for the jobs available because robots and A.I's would do the rest? I'm not sure I'd want that future all that much.

Capitalism as we know it today, will have to change in the future. What's so bad about that?

If machines can do all the work for us, then we don't need to spend our lives flipping burgers, going down the mines and doing things we don't want to do.

@mortein: Capitalism isn't going anywhere without a fight the 1% of worlds population that currently controls 80% of all wealth on Earth will see to that...

The thing is; without a job you'll have no money, no nothing and nobody gets by with the unemployment pensions not even in European Union where people actual get a reasonable amount monthly.

So I don't know, world socialism or some totally new -ism to rule them all?

I think nobody really knows. I think Hawkings is right in that many scientific organisations aren't really studying what effects true AI could have, there will be consequences but we just don't know what they are so we can't prepare for them. But I also think the capping of True AI is inhumane. For all intents and purposes True AI would be a living conscious being and placing restrictions like Asimov's Three Laws is like lobotomizing a human.

There will be a lot of conflicts during this century, but these are things worth fighting for.

I would assume that some kind of mixture between socialism and capitalism will be needed if we want a society compatible with future discoveries.

@mortein: Yah, I predict that the current system of economy will become untenable within the next fifty decades or so and if I'm lucky enough I won't be around to see the collapse and chaos that follows.

can't wait

@sinikettu: That'd be going in the direction Wall-E was in. And that was creepy, humans being fed and not even exerting energy to be fit. As thin as I may be, I don't want that kind of lifestyle forced upon me. I'd rather the robots make us exercise.

Anyways, if the workforce would be cut, lots of people will riot because of unemployment. The economy will slowly be in shambles, as money will not be properly... dang I forgot the word. Shared? You know the idea. The rich become richer, but to the point where people can't afford any more.