Wednesday, November 28, 2018

When Machines Are Self-Conscious

There has been quite a buzz about AI (short for Artificial Intelligence) for quite a while now; at what point do we consider them to not fully be artificial or non-artificial? It's hard for me to see if AI has truly gone beyond its namesake, meaning it's hard to tell when AI has transformed past from being artificial (to be able to possess mostly human capabilities).

My reasoning behind this is because of the idea brought up on Monday on that AI had to have created its thought process from some source via someone or something. To my knowledge as of right now, there hasn't been anything invented yet that had created by its lonesome, without human handiwork. I feel as though when people create programs/inventions and implement artificial intelligence within it, there thoughts and input are placed within them, thus having the AI possess a similar sense of thought to its creator.

Despite all that, I can agree to an extent with what top dogs such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking have said about artificial intelligence: that it is possible for it to become the most greatest threat to mankind. If it had come to a point in time where machinery had exemplary AI and can fluently act like humans, this world may end up being completely taken over by such feats (why have humans when machines, at that point, can do similar things but much better). I still think we have long ways to go though and I am not expecting to reach that point in life yet for at least a few decades. But, with the rate of technology improvements and improvisations exponentially increasing, I feel that it is only a matter of time before AI can possibly manifest this now technologically-driven world.

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