Sunday, April 5, 2015

redOrbit exclusive: The future of Artificial Intelligence - Part One: Armageddon?

John Hopton for redOrbit.com - @Johnfinitum Science fiction has a habit of portraying the future of Artificial Intelligence as one in which machines break their programming and cause all kinds of trouble. From 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 to new movies such as Transcendence and Chappie, the future of AI looks fraught with danger. But this concept is not only the reserve of fiction. Professor Stephen Hawking says that AI “could spell the end of the human race”, and that “humans who are limited by slow biological advancement could not compete.” Elon Musk thinks that AI could be humanity’s greatest threat – more dangerous than nuclear weapons.



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