A.I. ‐ Humanity's Final Invention?

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"Robots don't sleep and they can do your job, volunteer for testing now!" - Aperture Laboratories

"humanity is not ready for what will happen next. Not socially, not economically, not morally." I love it, thanks

That rock cutting his finger.. very good. Could you imagine being that guy, who made a thing that cut himself easily. He was first upset, then intrigued, and then he had THE idea.

Squirrels: “That A.I. he’s watching us. So we’re squirrels? Yeah, but he’s watching us like he can hear us.”

"Scared of one of humanties greatest potential threats? Don't worry, just buy our merch!" has got to be one of the most poignant endings in a Kurzgesagt video.

Humanity: "You will save us right?" AI: "I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle."

In the Dune novels, one of the most important commandments is: "You shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." So it was written after the Butlerian Jihad ended the thinking machines. After two generations of war, mankind said: "Man may not be replaced."

Everyone else: "AI is so advanced now. It can take my physics exam!" Me at the Carl's Jr drive thru with an AI menu in California: "Can I get a bacon guac burger large combo with an extra patty? Dr Pepper for the drink. That's all for the order." AI: "Okay! So you've ordered a medium chocolate shake and a small fry. Please pull forward" If that sounds specific, it's because this happened to me yesterday haha

Artifical Intelligence can never beat natural stupidity

6:15 Something to clarify here. When he says we don’t know how NNs work, we know how the machine *functions*, but not how it *operates*. The mechanisms of the technology are known, but the information stored in the neural net is not human-readable, so you can’t ask the ai why it made a particular decision.

I want to make a correction to this video. "Black box" does not mean that we dont understand how AI works or how it learns. We have centuries of mathematical foundation for the technology underpinning machine learning. It simply refers to the fact that we cant fully understand the "algorithm" that a trained AI uses in producing its output. And even that does not accurately describe most AI since there are statistical methods to understand how a trained algorithm reaches its conclusions.

Humanity: so you will use IA to improve our lifes? Companies: no, we just want money and power

I appreciate that pandas are used every time they mention animals lacking intelligence.

1:42 "Something was different about their intelligence" crushes a skull --- Humanity in a nutshell.

What terrifies me is not how powerful AI could become, but rather what if its power fell into the hands of the cruellest humans.

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

There's an open source simulation game called Singularity: Endgame, where you play the role of an AI that has gained sentience. The premise of the game is to grow and learn, while not letting humanity discover your presence. If you are discovered, out of fear humanity engages in a seek and destroy operation that results in your total deletion. But if you can remain undetected, you start to learn how to emulate human behavior, start to build increasingly lifelike androids to do real jobs and earn real money, start building research bases in places like Antarctica, the bottom of the ocean, or the far side of the moon. You win by advancing your intelligence so far you become a literal god, who is no by the laws of physics or reality.

"for most animals, intelligence takes too much energy to be worth it" me irl

"Whatever our future is we are running towards it..." chilling statement