Is Skynet online already?

[jaws7777]

Im not a fan of the self driving thing. I couldnt see trusting a my family in or near one

 

[Deadliestviper7]

AI is very dangerous, and I think that there will be an incident in the future which will cause people to get killed by AI, which will prompt them to regulate it more closely, but I think that full human-level conscious AI is still a few hundred years away, and it is debatable whether it is even possible or not.

Self driving cars have already killed

 

[Deadliestviper7]

I dont think killer bots or drones is what we have to fear. If AI ever truly became self aware it would absolutely view us as a threat at some point. It could wipe us out with viruses (digital) there would be no way to stop it. Almost all of our municipal systems are in some way connected to the internet, and even shutting down the net would be impossible. The software could just wait our demise out and not have to fire one bullet.

They could shut off water,electrical, disrupt communications, shut off any equipment using a battery or electrical cord(vehicles,defibulators, house power,refrigerators etc)

 

[Warborg]

Self driving cars have already killed

Too be fair people driving cars have killed people.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Too be fair people driving cars have killed people.

That is true, right now we need to focus on correcting these problems

 

[CarpCharacin]

Self driving cars have already killed

Yes, but not intentionally. A self-driving car can't make a conscious decision to kill someone. And the ratio of passenger deaths in self-driving cars is overall much lower than human-driven cars. LOL, people have also gotten sucked into factory machinery and died, because of a lack of safety measures, and I would even argue that it is fundamentally the same, the machine didn't make a conscious decision to kill the human.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Yes, but not intentionally. A self-driving car can't make a conscious decision to kill someone. And the ratio of passenger deaths in self-driving cars is overall much lower than human-driven cars. LOL, people have also gotten sucked into factory machinery and died, because of a lack of safety measures, and I would even argue that it is fundamentally the same, the machine didn't make a conscious decision to kill the human.

Agreed here, many so called accidents are actually just unintentional injuries due to operator error

 

[CarpCharacin]

We can't even begin to build a conscious, general, AI until we have a strong understanding of what consciousness, self-awareness, and cognition are, and I think that is still a very long ways out.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Also, the concept of a "technological singularity" is flawed on a fundamental level, because it is strongly based on Moore's Law, but Moore's Law has come to an end. That just goes to show that while there may be certain time periods that display exponential technological development in a particular area, such exponential development is not sustainable, because real-world factors will ultimately get in the way, as was the case with Moore's Law.

 

[Fat Homer]

We can't even begin to build a conscious, general, AI until we have a strong understanding of what consciousness, self-awareness, and cognition are, and I think that is still a very long ways out.

I think we are closer than most people think, which is probably why FB was so quick to close down their project once it started creating and communicating in its own language...