Prepare For Skynet: Researcher Say Super-Intelligent AI Will Be Impossible to Control
January 15, 2021
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve and improve, researchers are offering a dire warning, saying super-intelligent AI will be impossible to control.
AI is one of the most controversial technological developments. Its proponents claim it will revolutionize industries, solve a slew of the toughest problems and lead to the betterment of humankind. Its critics believe it represents an existential threat to humanity, and will eventually evolve beyond man’s ability to control it.
An international team of researchers are now saying AI
will evolve beyond our ability to control it, based on theoretical calculations. In a paper published in the
Theoretical calculations showed it would be fundamentally impossible.
Jan 14th, 2021
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We are fascinated by machines that can control cars, compose symphonies, or defeat people at chess, Go, or Jeopardy! While more progress is being made all the time in Artificial Intelligence (AI), some scientists and philosophers warn of the dangers of an uncontrollable super-intelligent AI. Using theoretical calculations, an international team of researchers, including scientists from the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, shows that it would not be possible to control a super-intelligent AI. The study was published in the
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
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We are fascinated by machines that can control cars, compose symphonies, or defeat people at chess, Go, or Jeopardy! While more progress is being made all the time in Artificial Intelligence (AI), some scientists and philosophers warn of the dangers of an uncontrollable superintelligent AI. Using theoretical calculations, an international team of researchers, including scientists from the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, shows that it would not be possible to control a superintelligent AI. The study was published in the
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
Suppose someone were to program an AI system with intelligence superior to that of humans, so it could learn independently. Connected to the Internet, the AI may have access to all the data of humanity. It could replace all existing programs and take control all machines online worldwide. Would this produce a utopia or a dystopia? Would the AI cure cancer, bring