The robots are preparing to conquer the world.
Today humanity is experiencing a fourth industrial revolution, characterized by advances in robotics and unmanned vehicle technology, the proliferation of smart appliances, etc. and “ahead of the rest” is an artificial intelligence (AI), which is the development of automated computer systems that can match or even surpass humans in intelligence. AI is the next global technology — global so that future technologies will depend on it. But not all so smoothly with artificial intelligence, there are a number of very controversial issues about which there are significant concerns.
1. Unmanned vehicle can be programmed to kill the driver
Suppose a person goes on the road. Then suddenly the road in front of the machine POPs out a baby. The driver presses on the brakes, but they do not work. Then he has two options: either knock down a child, or collapse into a post, thus fell to his death. Most people agree that it would prefer to roll into the pillar to certain death. However, now it is necessary to imagine that the unmanned vehicle and the person rides as a passenger. If he wants to car itself turned into a pillar, killing him… the Majority of people who agreed that they are ready to break, saving the life of a child, said they don’t want the car yourself turned into a pillar, killing them. Moreover, they argue that wouldn’t even buy such a car, if they know that it puts them at risk in an accident. This leads to a natural question: what to do the machine, and how it need to be programmed. What is most interesting manufacturers of unmanned vehicles evading an answer to such a question.
2. Robots demand equal rights with people
With the current trends in the development of artificial intelligence it is possible that the robots reach the stage of self-realization. When this happens, they can demand equal rights with people. That is, they will need housing and medical services, and will require to be allowed to vote, serve in the armed forces to obtain citizenship. Similar results were published as a result of the UK Office of Science and Innovation”s Horizon Scanning Center in 2006, when AI was much less developed. It was expected that the machines reach the level of self-awareness in 50 years (i.e. 40 years).
3. Automated killer robots
The phrase “automated killer robots” usually mean robots that can kill without human intervention. It does not take into account drones, because they are controlled by people. One of the automatic killer robots, which is now in question, is the SGR-A1 sentry turret, developed by Samsung Techwin (now Hanwha Techwin) and the Korea University. The SGR-A1 is a lot like a surveillance camera, except that it is equipped with a powerful machine gun that can automatically fire at the target. The SGR-A1 is already used in Israel and South Korea, which was established a few turrets along its demilitarized zone (DMZ) with North Korea. However, South Korea denied the activation of the automatic mode, which allows the machine decide whom to kill and whom not. Instead, turrets are in semi-automatic mode, in which they find purpose, and then confirmation is required of a human operator in order to start a fire.
4. Military robots can move to the side of the enemy
In 2011, Iran captured an American unmanned stealth aircraft, the RQ-170 Sentinel in an undamaged condition. The drone was not shot down Iran claims that the plane “landed” by the substitution of the GPS signal (making it “think” that he is on friendly territory). Drones, GPS, and robots are based on computers, and as everyone knows, computers can be hacked. Military robots will not differ, if they ever will be used on the battlefield. In fact, there is every possibility that the enemy army will try to hack robots and use them against the “master”. Autonomous killer robots have not yet received wide distribution, so the examples of hacking yet. But it is worth only imagine what would happen if an army of robots suddenly turn against their masters.
5. Bots to spread propaganda on Twitter
Bots capture Twitter. Research University of southern California and Indiana University showed that about 15% (48 million) of all Twitter accounts controlled by bots (in this case, Twitter insists that this figure is around 8.5 percent). To be clear, not all of these bots are bad. Some of them are really useful. For example, there are bots that inform people about natural disasters. However, there are those that are used for propaganda. As examples of bots that encouraged voters to vote for Donald trump during the elections in 2016, and voters in the UK to vote for withdrawal from the European Union during the referendum, Brexit in 2016.
6. Machines take people’s jobs
Undoubtedly, one machine will work on most places where people work today. However, nobody knows when it will happen and to what extent. According to leading consulting and audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the robots occupy 21 percent of jobs in Japan, 30 percent of jobs in the UK, 35 per cent of jobs in Germany and 38 per cent of jobs in the United States of America in 2030. And for the next century they will occupy more than half the jobs available to people. The most affected sector is transportation and warehousing, where 56 per cent of the workforce are machines. It is followed by manufacturing and retail sector, which is more than 46 and 44% of all available jobs. Speaking about “when it happens”, it is assumed that by 2027, the machine will manage the trucks, and by 2031 to work in retail stores. 2049 they will write books, and 2053 perform the operation. Only a few of the professions do not “suffer” from the onslaught of the machines. As one of the examples of the position of priest.
7. Robots have learned to lie
Like their creators, the robots learn to cheat. During one experiment, the researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have developed an algorithm that allows the robots to decide whether to deceive other people or robots. If the robots have decided to take the path of deception, the researchers included an algorithm that allows the robot to decide how to deceive people and robots, reducing the likelihood that a person or robot learn about the deception. Detailed results of the experiment information has been received, except that he was successful. This experiment was organized by the Office of U.S. naval research, which means that potentially lying robots can be used for military purposes.
8. The AI market is monopolized
Market AI monopolisieren. Large companies buy small start-UPS on the development of AI at an alarming rate. On present trends, the AI will be finalized very small number of corporations. As of October 2016, the report indicated that large companies such as Apple, Facebook, Intel, Twitter, Samsung and Google has acquired 140 companies in the development of artificial intelligence during the last five years. In the first three months of 2017 major technology companies have bought 34 start-up AI. Worse still, they also pay a lot of money to hire the best scientists in the field of artificial intelligence.
9. AI will surpass humans in intelligence
Artificial intelligence is divided into two groups: strong and weak AI. AI, which exists today, is classified as weak AI. It includes “intelligent assistants”, and computers that win chess grandmasters since 1987. The difference between strong and weak AI is the ability to talk and behave like human brain. Weak AI usually does what he was programmed, and strong AI has consciousness and the ability to think like a man. It is not confined to his program and he can decide what to do and what not to do without human intervention. At the moment a strong AI doesn’t exist, but scientists predict that it should appear in about ten years.
10. AI could destroy humans
There are fears that the world may come to an Apocalypse just as it happened in the movie “Terminator”. Warning that AI could destroy humans, do not come from some “armchair analysts” or conspiracy theorists, and from such outstanding professionals as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and bill gates. Bill gates believes that AI will become too smart to remain under the control of the people. Similar is the opinion of Stephen Hawking. He doesn’t think AI will suddenly organize a “bloodbath”. Rather, he believes that machines will destroy man, becoming too competent in what they do. The conflict of people with AI will start from the moment when its purpose no longer is the same as ours. Elon Musk compares the distribution of the AI with the “call of demons”. He believes that this is the biggest threat to humanity. To prevent the Apocalypse and human extinction, it is suggested that governments began to regulate the development of AI before the commercial company “does something really stupid”.
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