Source: https://youtu.be/FLcrvMfHUJM?si=qf9nzM3X34zcm4co aka 16 ways MIT thinks AI can end the world etc. ig
I just want to know whether such groundbreaking stuff is actually happening in AI and are such things actually bound to happen?
PS- I was considering spending next decade trying to understand Theoretical Physics to build foundation for Quantum mechanics but AI doing such thing in the background make it impossible for me not to get into it.
PPS- If such things have even some probability of happening, it will break all of our values and philosophy in no time after all then we would just be life stock and/or pet
Will AI change the course of Human History in next 50-100y? (Serious Discussion)
byu/Complex_Tea_1244 inFuturology
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Yes of course it will change the course of history. Did the internet change the course of history? Yeah it done did.
Of course. It will do such I sane things that nothing a human ever produced will matter at all. How much has a single ant brain contributed to modern art, science and literature. The answer is 0. It’s sounds dumb to even propose that. All art and technology we have now will be obsolete.
Even todays AI is enough to drastically change how world works whence its integrated to systems. Heck world hasnt even fully finished digitalization yet. So yeah, world will be a lot more automated in next 20 years. Imagine a humanoid robot coming to repair your sink for example.
50-100?
Maybe 5-10.
And if you will be a pet or a god is up to you.
I haven’t seen it described how an OUTSIDE Ai program would enter a healthcare CRM or academic database, maybe legal proceedings data, anything investigative, and be trusted not to take the data back outside.
Wouldn’t this kind of private data require an Ai built to live WITHIN the data itself?
It will for sure change the future of humanity. Therefore it is up to humanity to ensure we make the best out of it by identifying and fostering the values we will need, starting immediately. That will definitely be harder than doing nothing and assume humanity will just decline into insignificance; but if we do it right, we can lay the foundation for a prosperous society focusing on self-actualization rather than work and struggle with the every day economic challenges
I wonder if Nintendo ever rearranges announcements out of spite. “Oh, they leaked that we were doing a Star Fox announcement in April? We’ll push it to May.”
It’ll change a lot, but probably through boring compounding, not one sudden break. Think more like how software ate industries over decades. The real shift is decision making and automation creeping into everything. I wouldn’t drop physics, deep fundamentals still matter even if AI accelerates the surface layer.