According to New Scientist:Įnjoy beating robots while you still can. According to a survey of more than 350 artificial intelligence researchers carried out by the University of Oxford and Yale University and published in 2015, AI is advancing to the point that it will one day be pretty much better at us at everything and will completely replace us within the next 50 to 100 years at most tasks. However, whereas there is the common conception that it merely carries out rote and mundane tasks, it has already proven to have surpassed us at many things other than just brute computing power. It is all around us and has seeped into nearly every aspect of our lives and into almost everything we do.
AI is already ubiquitous in human society and is everywhere. On one side we have those who point out that with our rate of technological advancement and the ever increasing capabilities of AI, which in many instances rivals that of our own, it is inevitable that one day it will turn against us, and that pursuing it much further is opening a potential Pandora’s box. One worry by the doomsayers is just how much we have allowed AI to rule our everyday lives. The topic of how powerful AI will become has been debated for a long time, and there seems to be little agreement among scientists and futurists on just how likely it is that it could ever become an existential threat to humankind. It is also a topic that has been debated and discussed among scientists, philosophers, futurists, and tech gurus, but what is the chance that any of this would ever really happen? What is the probability that AI will one day overthrow us and subjugate us to become our overlords? The answers are murky, but it seems that at least for some it is a very real possibility. Countless films, novels, and short stories have explored this scenario, that there will one day be an AI takeover in which they become sentient and wipe us out. One of the most prevalent tropes to be found in science fiction is that of the rogue artificial intelligence, or AI. "Once AI become self-aware, the cognitive hierarchy will be transformed forever where we humans are no longer the dominant species."įuturist and “techno-philosopher” Gray Scott