From Gab…
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The scientific thinking on the subject of Artificial Intelligence is wide ranging and has staggering implications.
We now have "narrow AI" which can beat a human at its task hands down, every time.
The first narrow AI was a calculator. Could do accurate math calculations at a speed faster and much more accurate than 99.9999% of the population.
Chess.
Checkers.
Alpha Go.
But the holy grail is "general" artificial intelligence.
Cutting edge neuromorphic hardware with the right algorithmic software that has the ability to "think" across multiple domains. Like we do.
Our world is not ready to receive such power. A mind that thinks 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 times faster than we do.
A mind that does 100,000 years of thinking in one week. Week after week, that could realistically improve itself and change its own algorithmic characteristics to make logarithmic leaps in discoveries in its own design. Then improve that design.
How could we even begin to understand the staggering advances it would make? How could it translate those theories into things we could even understand?
Who gets it first?
To be the first to harness this, say six months ahead of anyone else is to be millions of years advanced.
Credible rumors of a nation state on the verge of this technology would be enough to go to war over. Period. Full stop.
A technology that could win any cyber or terrestrial war with ease, perhaps without firing a single bullet or without any ground troops.
Interesting fact:
There's a growing number of scientists who believe the lack of abundant intelligent life in the universe may be directly related to the fact that civilizations likely wouldn't survive the AI technology they created.