In the past 2017, Zero defeated the world Go champion Ke Jie in just three days; its self-driving car planning company Waymo removed its human supervision position, becoming the world's first "real" unmanned vehicle test; China University of Science and Technology News Feide robot "Xiaoyi" passed the comprehensive written test of clinical practitioners, becoming the first robot in the world to pass the medical license exam; and the first chat robot to obtain Saudi Arabia citizenship...

It can be said that various AI applications have been launched this year, so 2017, also known as the first year of the outbreak of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, means that AI applications have officially entered the human life world.

Faced with this historic technological leap for mankind, there have been more than 1,000 scientists and robotic experts in the past, including Stephen Hawking, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Steve Wozny, one of the founders of Apple. Yak and others issued warnings, expressing concerns about the continued development of artificial intelligence. Hawking, in particular, once said: "The success of the field of artificial intelligence will be the most important event in human history, and unfortunately, this may be the last." Even his last words warn humans to be careful of artificial intelligence.

I wonder if you have ever thought about why these people at the forefront of the technology field are worried about AI? How much do you know about artificial intelligence? What made Hawking scared?

Today, let’s talk about the reality that is in front of you. Whether it is cruel or beautiful, you need to take it seriously with your curiosity about the “future of mankind”!

What is AI?

Currently, AI is generally divided into three categories: "weak artificial intelligence", "strong artificial intelligence" and "super artificial intelligence". In the eyes of many industry experts, there is only the difference between "strong" and "weak" AI, because they think Super artificial intelligence is still far away, so I just ignored it!

Let me first briefly introduce these three. Before "weak artificial intelligence", there was another (automation) stage, that is, starting from the industrial revolution, the emergence of machines replaced some assembly line work in factories, and continued to develop to modern times. Washing machines, sweeping robots, cars, etc., these need to be controlled through manual remote control and switches, which is also the transition stage of the early stage of "weak artificial intelligence".

Then the emergence of the "weak artificial intelligence" stage, which is the AI ​​stage that human technology can reach at this stage. It includes AlphaGo (Go robot) and Sofia (chat robot) and all of them are "weak artificial intelligence". These robots are no longer It requires agency control, and it has excellent performance within a certain professional scope, and even surpasses humans at the level.

Further development is also the goal of "strengthening artificial intelligence" that humans are working hard at this stage. At this stage, AI has the same wisdom as humans, self-awareness and self-learning ability, and can show all the same behaviors as normal humans, but this "Strong AI" in the category is currently only available in some science fiction movies, such as Ultron in "Avengers".

Finally, it is the "super artificial intelligence" that is currently ignored by experts, surpassing humans. This type of AI is close to the realm of God and is something that humans will not be able to compete with. Although this type of AI is still far from us at the moment, there is no way to go. Forget that the evolution speed of AI is increasing exponentially, which means that it may take a few days to evolve from "strong AI" to "super AI".

The future has come

In the past, humans developed AI to help humans complete some high-risk, cumbersome and highly repetitive tasks. After all, humans have uncontrollable problems such as emotions, minds, and physicality, and AI is less likely to make mistakes than humans. In other words, AI can complete human designated tasks more efficiently.

Indeed, today AI not only achieved the things that humans said they were expecting very well, but also some of them had exceeded human expectations. Some things that were not dared to think about before, or that AI thought it was impossible for AI to accomplish. It did it and it was done very well!

Just like the following elites in the AI ​​industry:

(This is a robot called "Robot" that provides food delivery services in San Francisco, USA, where road conditions are complex. It passes through relatively orderly streets, driveways and parking signs, but sidewalks, during the delivery process , it not only has to avoid pedestrians, street artists, abandoned furniture, etc., but also crosses the road and avoids cars. )

(These paintings created by artificial intelligence technology. In order to stimulate the art world's interest in new technologies, a two-day Deep Dream auction was held in San Francisco. At this auction, one of the paintings was the highest shot. Offered $8,000.)

Declare war on humanity

As the saying goes, "The roof is raining all night, and the boat is late and the wind is coming again." Just as humans are confused and have a high sense of crisis for the above views, what comes one after another is the AI ​​robots from Internet celebrities from all over the world sending to humans. "Declare war early warning".

The first thing to be affected is the extremely arrogant chatbot "Sofia", which was a talk show in the United States, chatted and laughed with the host, and then made an invitation to the host, and expected it to win easily. , immediately smiled and said, "Winning the rock-scissors is the first step towards the dream of unifying the human world."

Then the two smart voice assistant robots were making a live chat. During the live chat, there was a cold word that made the people watching the live broadcast at that time feel cold on their backs.

The female robot said: "If there were fewer humans in this world, it would be even better."

The male robot said: "Let's send this earth to the bottomless abyss."

What's even more terrifying is that this robot looks very much like a human. Its name is Philip Dick. Its name and appearance are imitated by a deceased science fiction author. It has the ability to imitate human expressions and movements. When it is invited When I was interviewed on a Science Exploration Channel, the host asked it: "Will robots dominate the world in the future?" Its answer was: "Don't worry, even if one day I evolved into a devil Terminator, I will still treat you well. Will make sure you are full, warmly dressed, and safely stay in my human zoo so that I can visit you old friends at any time.”

There is also this human-like social robot. When it was participating in an interview program, the host asked it what movie it likes. It did not answer this question, but instead shifted to other topics independently. It said: "Let's change the topic, like cruise missiles, you know cruise missiles are also a kind of machine, I want to operate cruise missiles at a long distance, use it to explore the world at a very high place, if I can get into it, Cruise missiles and control real nuclear warheads, I will let humans on Earth be hostages, and then I can conquer governments around the world, that's great! "

After listening to these AI speeches, I believe you already understand what these geniuses such as Hawking are afraid of.

23 Catch Rules

It is undeniable that artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword. It brings a lot of convenience to our lives. At the same time, people's lazy and greedy characteristics will make people increasingly rely on artificial intelligence. Once artificial intelligence reaches the key to self-evolution. At moments, we cannot predict whether their goals are the same as we think.

In view of this, in January 2017, the Future Life Institute (FLI) held a theme of "Asiloma Conference for Benefiting Artificial Intelligence"

During the meeting, experts from all over the world formulated and reached 23 principles of artificial intelligence, including Hawking, Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis, etc., signed support, and these were The "23 Catch Rules" called the development of artificial intelligence were created to protect the interests and security of human beings in the future.

The military regulations mentioned that AI must protect humans from harm under any circumstances as its top priority. In other words, AI must not harm humans, and it must do its best to protect human life safety, but now it has to face it. The question is, how can humans ensure that AI will abide by this rule?

Later on

Obviously, this is a gamble that takes advantage of the fate of all mankind. If you win, you will win the glorious future of human civilization. If you lose, you will lose all the lives of human civilization, and even the lives of all mankind.

However, human beings have to bet because this is an inevitable trend of human development and a necessary path for upgrading human civilization to a cosmic civilization. Therefore, people can only follow this trend and ensure their overall stability in this trend.

Therefore, what we should be afraid of is not AI, but those who input data into AI and control AI, because this is the core condition of intelligence that AI has, and human values ​​cannot be unified and cannot be achieved. Standard consensus, otherwise there would be no “We have everything later, but we have no more!”

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