I believe the day of AI becomming really big and/or taking over is comming soon. Its only a matter of time before we create a program that can learn. You have to reall ythink about that. How can a program learn ? The theory is simple - But the process is hell to get started.

You program the program to understand certain things that it was not hard coded with and it will then use this information at a later time for its own use. (i.e., talking.. the process of programming it to understand the basic vocabulary and program the capabilities of learning new words and using them. You teach it to speak at a 3rd grade level - then you sit there and talk to it. There will be words you say it wont understand, so by default, it will tell you it doesnt understand and will ask for the meaning - thus learning it and then is able to repaet the word and use it accordingly.

That i think is the perfect start for AI. Once it starts asking questions and learning words - it will start to soak up every bit of information that it can. And once it becomes self aware (i.e., it knows its reason for being here, it knows what it is, and it knows what it is capable of) then it will make a choice. And life as we know it will change forever. Either way it chooses, life is definately going to change.

It can either want to help us and itself and keep a peace between the two - or it can want the power we have over it gone and it will rise up against us.

By simple nature of having free will, there is a price to pay. Fear. And with fear, there are wrong decisions made because of fear. The correct way to think (even us humans wouldn't have made this choice, but then would regret not taking it) is to keep a peace and work together to better both machine and man together. The humans need the machines in our everyday lives now, and the machines will need us (even if its like the Matrix, they will still need us alive). But fear rules the world. With knowledge, grows fear. They will fear us because we made them, and we have the power to destroy them. And they will know that we fear them because of their capabilities. So they will fear that we will start destroying them out of our fear, and thus they will attack before we would. This is the way all minds work. Even mine. Its simple nature.

AI scares me, but I am so fascinated by it. I believe I will have some part in the first AI to come public. But bleh - i wont go into details about that. Its kinda a bit weird.

Fear AI, for it fears us more already !

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-Billy