Thursday, December 11, 2014

Google CEO says we don't need to fear artificial intelligence

Eric Schmidt says that according to the numbers, people who work with computers see their wages going up, productivity going up and have a better life generally. He also says it's normal that people fear artificial intelligence.

http://www.newsweek.com/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-says-artificial-intelligence-will-make-world-not-break-290778

Artificial intelligence is making progress almost exponentially according to Tesla's CEO Elon Musk. He fears that artificial intelligence could be the biggest threat to human kind. We also fears that artificial intelligence could soon become more intelligent than humans and that we might do something very foolish.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-biggest-existential-threat

He is not alone in this fear. Last week, Stephen Hawking who is considered one of the biggest living minds say that general artificial intelligence could design improvements to itself, outsmart us all and that it could be the end of man kind. He also says that artificial intelligence could be the ones leading in the future.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-stacy/artifical-intelligence-st_b_6293732.html

Right now artificial intelligence is so advanced it can write reports just like human beings. It's also doing things that were considered impossible just ten years ago. Robots are already being used by Nestle to act as sales men in their stores in Japan. Artificial intelligence already can drive cars, trucks, race in real world cars and even play ping pong.

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