Will the rise of artificial intelligence lead to us becoming immortal - or lead to our extinction? Turns out it's either one or the other.
Much of the information for this video comes from this excellent article on Wait, But Why. it's a 2-part article that will take about an hour to read and I tried to distill it down to a few minutes (and failed).
Computer technology is growing at an exponential rate - actually it has been growing exponentially for decades, but the thing about exponential growth is that the further it goes along, the bigger the leaps become. And we are on the cusp of some incredible leaps in technology.
Artificial Intelligence has captured our imaginations for years, but now that we are approaching the very real possibility of super-intelligent computers, people are starting to take notice, and the predictions span from boundless utopia to the end of the world. With very little in between.
Thinkers and scientists from Ray Kurzweil to Nick Bostrom to Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk are issuing stern warnings as well as optimism about what the future holds in a world where humans are not the smartest creatures on the planet anymore.
But there's still a long way to go. IBM's Watson was able to beat the biggest Jeopardy winner of all time, but it was still simply processing data, and not thinking in a creative sense. Still, those computers are right around the corner, and what happens when they reach the ability to think on our level and improve themselves will dictate the future - or end - of humanity.
This is not small stuff, it's HUGELY important.
A question:
Are you a teacher? I hope so.
A comment:
I love your video. Immortality? If art emulates life, then you have to figure the current obsession with apocalyptic scenarios suggests a kind of instinctive foreboding about where the human race/planet is heading. Will AI be our undoing? Will it be a raging virus? Aliens? Thermonuclear warfare? I don't know, but an impending apocalypse seems to be something people feel in their gut.
I'm not going to miss any more of your posts. Just great.
BTW: Did you see the HBO series [Years and Years?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_and_Years_(TV_series) The theme of immortality and AI dealt with creatively there
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Years and Years (TV series)
Years and Years is a British television drama series which is a joint production by the BBC and HBO. It began broadcasting on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2019 and on HBO on 24 June 2019.The series was created and written by Russell T Davies, and stars Emma Thompson as Vivienne Rook, an outspoken celebrity business woman turned political figure whose controversial opinions divide the nation, alongside Rory Kinnear, Russell Tovey, Jessica Hynes, Ruth Madeley and Anne Reid as the Lyons family.
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