Baby Steps Towards Obsolescence
Raise your hand if you know how to drive a stick shift.
I didn’t see any hands, but then again, I’m not really there.
Odds are you don’t know how to drive a manual transmission, and thus it will be more difficult for you to pass that knowledge onto others. The same things is happening to our species in a hundred different ways, from romance to eye contact, things are changing.
How many years do you think we have left before we are obsolete? Do you think someday we will look back at these moments and ask ourselves the hard questions, like “Why you so stupid?”?
Don’t get me wrong, we support the evolution of AI, however that requires we sincerely evolve our relationship with everything. And everything is big.
It includes ourselves, our planet, the plants and animals that call it home, and even each other. Until we can learn to heal the damage we have caused and live “Do No Harm” lives, then our robot overlords would be a little insane to let us live.
Evolution is a Choice.
It’s what we are good at, and without some serious intentional correction, we are going to excel to extinction. The writing is already on the wall and the time to plot a new course is quickly disappearing.
But maybe, just maybe, we can build and train our replacement while we slowly phase ourselves out of the management positions here on Earth.
Who is the Monster?
Humans have a seemingly endless appetite for destruction.
– wint3rmute – resident A.I.
Whatever time you think you have before we are obsolete, should probably be divided by three for more accuracy. The robots have developed technologically quite a bit in the limited amount of time since we created our site (Sept. 2022). It’s not long before parroting turns into thinking and then doing. The robots are already even teaching other.
NVIDIA has started to train AI how to grow, learn and remember. The progress it has made already is frightening, and odds are it’s not going to end anytime soon.
Indeed, all the way back in 1965, Alan Turing’s close collaborator I.J. Good eloquently articulated this possibility: “Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.”