Thread: The Church of Artificial Intelligence

If scientists design a robot's code to alter itself in response to certain (e.g., "threatening") conditions, then theoretically the robot could alter its own code so as to remove the ability of external entities (e.g., the scientists) to reverse these alterations. And then, things could get pretty scary.

Stephen Hawking

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," the world-renowned physicist told the BBC. "It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded." Hawking has been voicing this apocalyptic vision for a while. In a May column in response to Transcendence, the sci-fi movie about the singularity starring Johnny Depp, Hawking criticized researchers for not doing more to protect humans from the risks of AI. "If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades,' would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here—we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not—but this is more or less what is happening with AI," he wrote.

-- http://time.com/3614349/artificial-i...ing-elon-musk/

Originally Posted by njtom

If scientists design a robot's code to alter itself in response to certain (e.g., "threatening") conditions, then theoretically the robot could alter its own code so as to remove the ability of external entities (e.g., the scientists) to reverse these alterations. And then, things could get pretty scary.

At least if it acquires control over nuclear weapons.

Originally Posted by Colonel

At least if it acquires control over nuclear weapons.

Or over Facebook!!!

Originally Posted by Quest

Ultimately Satan is behind the curtain....IMHO

But I get it..you mean no matter how 'smart' robots get someone is programing them...

So technically there will always be satan behind the man behind the deception....

Right, satan uses people, and the anti-christ won't be a machine but a person.

Originally Posted by njtom

Or over Facebook!!!

Doesn't matter, just nuke the robot. If it threatens to kill Facebook then nuke it anyway.

Originally Posted by njtom

Stephen Hawking

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” the world-renowned physicist told the BBC. “It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.” Hawking has been voicing this apocalyptic vision for a while. In a May column in response to Transcendence, the sci-fi movie about the singularity starring Johnny Depp, Hawking criticized researchers for not doing more to protect humans from the risks of AI. “If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here—we’ll leave the lights on’? Probably not—but this is more or less what is happening with AI,” he wrote.

Hawking the supposedly smartest man on earth is worried about this when there are a myriad of bad things that need correcting on earth

Originally Posted by Colonel

Doesn't matter, just nuke the robot. If it threatens to kill Facebook then nuke it anyway.

If the robot gets access to the internet, then all bets are off.

Heck, most of the church I see is already run by artificial intelligence.