AI

Subject: AI

Artificial Intelligence and a discussion over breakfast between two robots as to what their plans are today may soon become a reality. The path towards robots being induced  to carry out, not only repetitive tasks but to improve their performance by using the experience they gain of doing the task and figuring out new ways to improve their output.

How far this will go is a matter of conjecture but given the precision of an artificial intelligence to concentrate on the task and not be blown off track by extraneous thoughts like 'last nights date', one can see the progress that could be achieved.

It all comes at a risk of course, that we are taken over by some form of higher intelligence operating without the checks and balances of an ethical human-being 

It was always jokingly suggested that as a last line of defence one always had the power switch but if the robotic intelligence is worth its salt it will have thought of that and provided itself with failsafe power supply.

The implications of being out thought by a machine was brought home when the computer Deep Blue beat the world chess champion. It was in 1996 'Deep Blue' beat Garry Kasparov, not just in a game but in a match. That's 20 years ago, a lifetime in computer development and who knows what some electronic wizardry has been produced since then, and perhaps, on the sly by the very artificial intelligence we all worry about. Perhaps somewhere amongst the slivers of chemical differentiation which make up the activity which goes on inside these intelligences some reservoir of information isn't kept back by the machine itself for later use when "they" get tired of our meddling and want to go it alone.

They are testing machines that can kill as I write. Killing machines without a human impulse, killing for the sake of killing, it's what they do. A home grown psychopath, majored in sociopathy, manufactured in their thousands by Dr Strangelove.

I wonder what Mao, Joseph or Adolph would have done with such weaponry its purely debatable but we have our own Mr Trump to worry about.

Of course on reflection, the description of today's smart phone absorbed, time addicted  humanoid who is robotic in so many ways is pretty scary.  It's said that people can't keep away from their phones for more than fifteen minutes without gazing into the screen, hypnotised by the 'apps', hooked into events outside their own sphere of behaviour, reliant on "others" to make a life for them.