Stephen Hawking Fears Military Deployment Artificial Intelligence

Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and many other eminent researchers and scientists have an open letter published and signed in which they warn about the military use of artificial intelligence. According to experts, artificial intelligence reaches a point where the use of such systems within a few years is a reality.

If it is mentioned both advantages and disadvantages to the use of artificial intelligence by the army. The replacement of human soldiers by robots could reduce the number of human victims, but can on the other hand, the threshold to start a war decrease. The experts fear that a global competition arises in the development of artificial intelligence for military purposes.

Once a military world power will develop artificial intelligent weapons others will follow. Autonomous weapons will therefore be the Kalashnikovs tomorrow, according to the experts. Unlike nuclear weapons autonomous weapons would be easy to produce and do not require expensive materials. It would also only a matter of time before they get into the hands of terrorists, dictators and warlords.

Autonomous weapons, according to the experts also ideal for conducting attacks, destabilise countries, suppressing the population and the selective killing of ethnic groups. Therefore, a military race in artificial intelligence is not in the interest of humanity, so they warn. The experts conclude the letter off by saying that artificial intelligence has great potential for humanity, but that this is not militarily, and therefore should be banned in an autonomous weapons.

Linux Developer Not Afraid Of Artificial Intelligence

The developer of the Linux kernel Linus Torvalds is not afraid of artificial intelligence (AI), he said in an interview with readers of the news site Slashdot let you know. In recent months, told several celebrities, including Bill Gates , Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk that they are very concerned about creating artificial intelligence.

Musk even called it the greatest threat to humanity. He therefore decided $ 10 million to allocate to hold artificial intelligence "useful". During the interview on Slashdot Torvalds was asked whether he was also worried about AI. "I just do not see why I should be afraid," he replied. According to Torvalds, the man will eventually create artificial intelligence, but it will need training. It will not be a rules-based program. In that regard, it will Artificial Intelligence, therefore, not as "reliable" as is the case with traditional computers, notes the Linux developer.

This makes it of interest to him, but also more difficult to use. Torvalds expects more targeted artificial intelligence, or AI that people will like. The " singularity , "where computers are getting smarter and create new models that are smarter again until they are more intelligent than humans, he designates as science fiction. "It's science fiction, and not even very good."Instead of infinite exponential growth, he expects more something that will resemble Moore's Law.