A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

THE FUTURE OF AI IS A COIN FLIP: IMMORTALITY OR HUMAN EXTINCTION?

Cette surmédiatisation du concept de cyborg va jusqu’à engendrer une mise en question passionnée de l’appareillage, domaine où la raison devrait nous guider : qui oserait lancer un débat «pour ou contre» la chaise roulante ou la canne anglaise ? Le sujet amputé, plus ou moins «réparé», se retrouve involontairement enjeu de discussions sur l’«augmentation» du corps dont il connaît, lui, les limites, au risque de rendre encore plus compliquée l’image qu’il a de lui-même et que la société se fait de lui.

I think one disappointing thing about the Terminator franchise is that I often feel as though it’s cooked up by people who have no background in science. In order to always up the ante and make the system more frightening and powerful, they go completely off the deep end until it’s not credible at all. Then, it’s just disappointing for people who’d really like to find it provocative, and stimulating, and scary.

I think robots are going to have a huge impact on the world, just like computers did, or cars did, or asphalt, or electricity. That scale of impact—enormous impact—but I don’t think the impact is going to be because they become evil and take over. I think it’s going to be just because everything we do changes. Some things get easier, some things will get harder—not many things—and society will change. That’s a lot more scary, in some ways.

Sure, Artificial Intelligence May End Our World, But That Is Not the Main Problem

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