The day I woke up and Reddit was working on its own was just the most incredible feeling.
I love stories like 'The Terminator' movies and 'The Matrix,' where our machines become self-aware and turn on us.
Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.
I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched.
Any movie that deals with an AI computer voice stands in the long, long shadow of '2001.'
And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.
Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.
Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
