Throughout the history of mankind, from the Stone Age to the electrical age, mankind has traveled 100,000 years, and it is less than two hundred years from the electrical age to the peak of the digital age today. For nearly half a century, the number of integrated circuit components that lay the foundation for the digital age has doubled every 12 months, and performance has doubled. In the 21st century, in just a few years, mobile networks and big data have ruled the world, and artificial intelligence has begun to erode the status of mankind.
The tremendous role of science and technology in promoting human society is obvious. Especially in modern times, science and technology are regarded as the primary productive forces and become the main driving force for social development. While we are concerned about the convenience brought by technology and the role of promoting the development and progress of human society, we cannot ignore that it may bring us huge or even devastating harm.
Elon Musk, chief executive of electric vehicle company Tesla and commercial space flight company SpaceX, is not a staunch supporter of artificial intelligence. On the contrary, he calls the latter "the greatest threat to human survival."
He once said at the Centennial Symposium of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “If I were to guess the greatest threat to human existence, I think it might be artificial intelligence. Therefore, we need to be extremely vigilant about artificial intelligence. demon."
MIT physicist Max Tegmark once compared artificial intelligence like this:
"Not long ago, robots could not even walk, and now they can backflip. Not long ago, self-driving cars did not appear, but now we have rockets that can fly back on their own. Not long ago, artificial intelligence could not do it. Face recognition, now it has generated virtual faces..."
In science fiction or movies, artificial intelligence often makes humans fall into nightmares. For example, in movies such as "2001", "Terminator", and "Blade Runner", smart computers or smart machines eventually aim weapons at their human creators.
Once artificial intelligence surpasses humans, it may not be grateful to the creator, a cold-hearted and omnipotent being. Why should it have special feelings for a group of creatures who don't want to get up and work just because of bad weather?
To paraphrase the anthropologist Hu Jiaqi, "Artificial intelligence already possesses the ability of deep learning and has reached a very high level." "The day when the self-awareness of intelligent robots is awakened is when all the rules set by humans are subverted." "Nature, Species with high IQs have always despised species with low IQs, and even cooked and roasted species with low IQs, as food or as dolls. When intelligent robots surpass humans, humans are dead."
The film "Super Body" fully demonstrates the extent to which artificial intelligence can achieve its potential and rapid evolution once it has the ability to learn. Artificial intelligence experts often comfort us by saying: artificial intelligence is still very weak, and the things you worry about are far from now. But knowledge growth is exponential. How long does it take to go from weak artificial intelligence to strong artificial intelligence?
In this increasingly individualistic society, if scientists dominate the actions of individuals with their own self-interest, the consequences are often disastrous; even regardless of the motivation, any negligence may bring about extinction. Regardless of whether the technology is going bad or good, it is more reasonable to be wary of artificial intelligence than to embrace artificial intelligence unconditionally.