On the occasion of a cinematic film that is currently projected in the halls, a group of famous scientists made a public intervention warning of the dangers that humanity would have to develop artificial intelligence.
It is about the British physicist Stephen Hawking, director of the research centreυ θεωρητικής φυσικής του πανεπιστημίου του Κέμπριτζ, το Νομπελίστα φυσικό του MIT Φρανκ Βίλτσεκ και το συνάδελφο του Μαξ Τέγκμαρκ όπως επίσης και για τον Στούαρτ Ράσελ, καθηγητή της επιστήμης των computers at the University of Berkeley, who with an article in the Huffington Post analyze the possibility of the development artificial intelligence.
According to the authors, artificial intelligence has already made leaps and finds applications in our daily lives, such as driverless cars, personal assistants in mobile phones or even computers that beat humans in various kinds of tasks. games. These achievements are even expected to pale in comparison to the developments that the near future has in store.
The physical argument behind the scientists' warnings is that there is no physical reason to prevent arrangements of particles from organizing themselves. better so that they perform calculations in a better way than the human brain.
The potential benefits of the development of artificial intelligence are numerous, as the whole culture is based on the notion of intelligence. When it is maximized, the eradication of diseases, wars or poverty can be an easy task.
The technological one discovery, apart from perhaps being the most important event in human history, it might also be the last, if humanity is not careful enough.
Looking in the future there are no limits to the process: artificial intelligence can find the means by itself to develop explosively, taking the reins from its creators. This process is called in the international literature as singularity, and there are few who consider it inevitable or even mathematically demonstrable.
Researchers point out that initially the subject will be who will control artificial intelligence, but in the long run, however, it is not certain that one can control it at all and that is where attention needs to be focused. They also note that, despite the immense importance that such a development can have for mankind, it is very few who are studying the issue with due gravity.
