'What don't we want? Robots. When don't we want them? Ever.' Anti-droid hipsters hit SXSW Visitors to the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) tech jamboree have been having a rough old time of it, with what appears to be protests from the locals and a sneaky spam problem on Tinder. On Sunday a group of hipsters took to the streets of Austin, Texas, to protest what they see as reckless and potentially dangerous …
And you can't keep something from being invented- especially something like intelligence which could emerge from a complex system.
So we should push forwards as fast as possible. Crash through the barriers. Accept that we'll develop dangerous things, and trust that by having us- the technically adept though potentially amoral- develop it early society can take advantage of the good aspects and identify- and counter- the dangers as early as possible too.
The problem isn't technology, it's people.
Imagine an android 5 times more intelligent than a human, 10 times as strong and quick.
Such a thing could be great for search and rescue, space exploration, whatever.
But some prick will tell one to do something bad, you just know it. And being as quick, intelligent and strong it will do it with ruthless efficiency.
I see the problem but it is not an issue for technology, it is an issue for the primitive apes that we are.
" it is an issue for the primitive apes that we are."
The hell it is! Not that I'm particularly challenging that description, but if you can imagine a futuristic society so flippin' perfect that _NOBODY_ ever does anything that would harm others, you're smoking something mighty fierce. Yes, civilizations arbitrarily more benevolent and peaceful than ours might exist - but it doesn't matter how enlightened their average citizen is: it only takes ONE sociopathic bastard to ruin the day of everybody else, and I firmly believe there cannot exist any intelligence that is _incapable_ of doing harm. From there on, it's just statistics (or a Borg-like single entity, but I'll have none of that thankyouverymuch)...
> The hell it is! Not that I'm particularly challenging that description, but if you can imagine a futuristic society so flippin' perfect that _NOBODY_ ever does anything that would harm others, you're smoking something mighty fierce.
Erm, I guess my point was that there is no reason to believe that a piece of clever, benign hardware would necessarily turn rogue on us. That is clearly us projecting our instincts onto it.
Take the Terminator for instance. Why on earth would any relatively intelligent computer system designed for and tasked with our defence decide that the best way to defend us would be to kill us all? In the mind of a lunatic maybe but a rational intelligence wouldn't likely come up with conclusion.
However, the technology in the wrong hands would be every bit as efficient as its benevolent counterpart at carry out its insane programming. But at the heart, we are therefore the problem.
Time to go really brownshirt on these wannabe Butlerian Jihadis before someone decides he is the reincarnation of Unabomber and someone gets killed.
It's not like we don't have enough real problems hitting the fans. We don't need invented ones imagined by an idiot in need of publicity like Elon Musk and a few confused retards taking up a manufactured cause.
You clearly missed the point that the whole "protest" was a marketing gimmick for a dating site. So far there are only a very few people seriously concerned about the rise of Artificial Intelligence.
Steven Hawkings is one, who famously said "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
Buddy you're intel make our life a big hell
Playin' with No I creating A I
You got mud in yo' brain
All the robots you train
Kickin' us all, oh you all are a pain
Singit'
We idiots will zock you
We idiots will zock you
(Sing to the tune of we will rock you by QUEEN).
I feel much better now. I really do.
Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this.
I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.
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