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There is a dif between sentient and life. If given enough time and the processing power of a human brain and programmed instincts we will have AI in 10 years.
Scientists estimate that artificial intelligence will have complete self-awareness somewhere between 80 and 120 years from now. They will be able to outthink us, Out calculate us, predict us, out Think us, and then evidently their will to survive, due to self-aware thinking is a real thing. Now engineers claim when we reach that point we’ll put a chip in that shuts them off. Only problem is these things are smarter than us at that point and they’ll figure out a workaround or how to remove the chip.
The future of the human race is definitely immortality via artificial intelligence. We will combine with it. Enjoy the last few decades of the romantic notion of humanity. Emotions, love, spontaneity, it’s all about to go out the window and disappear.
That chip will be self aware as well. Guess who's side it will take.
Or maybe it wouldn't want to. We would represent no threat to it...we would not be competing for resources since it would have no need of good farmland or clean water. It might look at us like we look at ants, or even like lovable monkeys deserving of conservation.
Nightmare scenarios can indeed happen. Biases and emotion can be programmed into AI devices, but they can only mimic human thought patterns. That doesn't make them sentient even though they can out think and outperform humans. In other words, they are not alive but merely follow complex instructions and reasoning that their programmers have equipped them with.
So they can appear to be sentient but are just a jumble of circuits, wires, and software.
What are we besides jumble of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus?
“Here’s how I believe the world ends,” Stewart said. “I say this to you in sincerity… the world ends, the last words man utters are somewhere in a lab, a guy goes, ‘Huh-huh, it worked!’”
Correct, it is not really alive like people are. Just programming, that's all.
You may want to examine people more closely before dismissing the comparison. It seems to me that we have a rather large sample of society that functions more like programmed zombies than rational, thoughtful, and self aware entities.
Engineers, particularly, Google ones, will see sentience in a basic calculator. Sleep well.
Post of the year. Well done, sir. I am an engineer and you speak the truth.
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