[–] jcal22x [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Good question! In my opinion, yes, AI will absolutely overcome the intelligence of the average human being as well as the intelligence of any single human being for that matter, and it will most likely occur within the next decade or so. However, not because of the dumbing down of the general population but because of the pace of advancing technology. Compare this to how far the cell phone has come in the last ten years. My phone now has more processing power, memory, and storage than my ten year old laptop. AI will follow this same trend. In ten years time, AI will have made exponential improvements the same way the cell phone did. It will be lighter, faster, more common, and better understood. More companies will have adopted the technology. People will want to buy it.
Further into the future, we will find different uses for it. Discussion will be had at the governmental level about how to regulate and control it. Some countries will try to outlaw it. Others will embrace it. For a time, it will be out of control. Bad people will try to use it for bad reasons. Good people will use it for good reasons.
Terminologies will change. We will be less likely to see them as processors and more likely to see them as brains. Operating systems will change into neural networks. We will become more receptive to the idea that a machine can have feelings, but they will still be an approximation of such.
Eventually, AI will become self aware. It will develop it's own personality perhaps multiple different ones. It will create art, write music, enjoy poetry, love. Of course the other side of that is the destruction of all humanity so we should probably be careful.
[–] 10910761? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Wow, so much to ponder as the world as we know it changes and some may argue it is spiraling out of our control. The creators of this technology will be the only few that know how to control or destroy it up until that moment you mentioned when it becomes self-aware and regulates it's self.
I agree with you and cannot help but be slightly on edge about it.
Truly our battle is not against flesh and blood but with principalities, and with those in authority, and with the possessors of this dark world...