Is Artificial Intelligence a danger to Human Survival?

Dear Steemit Friends,

I'd like to talk about Artificial Intelligence and it's role in our lives. As we continue to make advancements and improvements in our technology, I can't help but to wonder if there is a danger that we may be becoming too reliant on our advancements and ignoring potential dangers that this progress could bring?

Artificial Intelligence has always been at the forefront of our advancements and the hope is that this technology not only simplifies our lives, but help us progress even further in our evolution. Some amazing things have been accomplished because of advances made in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies and there are yet still more amazing things in development.

With all good things come a price, and in the case of AI, there are concerns and fears that the intelligence and independence that may be achieved by these advancements may lead to our inventions rising up against us and determining that we are no longer needed or a threat. Typically these are scenarios and plots of movies, however can be argued that there is some legitimacy to these concerns.

I recently read an article where Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook had a debate over the topic of Artificial Intelligence and it's potential danger to human survival. Elon Musk felt it was more dangerous then the threat of nuclear weapons. Zuckerberg felt differently and assumed it was irresponsible of Elon Musk to assume that AI was dangerous.

You can read the article here

What is ironic about this debate is that recently, researchers at Facebook had to shut down an AI they invented after it taught itself a new language. Apparently it was trained in English, however it had determined that the language was inefficient due to the various nuances and inconsistencies in the way different people speak and communicate. The AI decided to develop it's own language made up of code words to make communicating more efficient. What seemed like gibberish to the researches became a method for various AI systems to communicate with each other, making it very difficult for the researchers to understand what the systems were talking about or sharing with each other.

Two AI systems in particular named Bob and Alice completely abandoned the English language and started communicating with each other strictly using this new language that they had developed. Although researchers were able to identify some of the patterns the systems were using and able to decipher some of the conversation, it was not clear to them what the entire conversation was about.

Facebook ultimately shut the AI systems down, but will definitely continue it's research into AI in an effort to to make the world better - which is what Zuckerberg believes the goal is.

What are your thoughts on Artificial Intelligence - Are we creating something that will make our life better or ultimately end up inventing something that will end life as we know it?

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