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.
This is the British physicist Stephen Hawking, director of the research center for theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge, the Nobel laureate physicist of MIT Frank Wilczek and his colleague Max Tegmark as well as Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at the University of Berkeley. who with an article in the newspaper Huffington Post analyze the possibility of development artificial intelligence.
According to the authors, artificial intelligence has already made leaps and finds applications in our everyday life, such as driverless cars, personal assistants on mobile phones or computers that beat people in various kinds of games. These achievements are also expected to be matched by developments in the near future.
The natural argument behind the scientists' warnings is that there is no physical reason to prevent arrangements of particles from being better organized to 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.
This technological discovery, perhaps beyond being the most important event in human history, may be the last if humanity is not quite careful.
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.
