Hypothetical: Humanity chooses A.I. over Children
Imagine humanity agreed not to pro-create any more.
Instead, they decided to create A.I. to succeed them.
Once the humans died out-
essentially the planet would be rid of the human race.
What would this world look like? Is this a tragedy or a happy ending?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.@SKDeitch Exactly my point my friend. Parents "program" their children the way the parents see fit. So what difference will it make if we do away with a lot of the human births and substitute AI for children.
I_dont_know
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Dec 5, 2017
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If the Human Race is intelligent and has made such a mess of things I don't think I could describe the disaster that would follow the bequeathing of the planet to Artificial Intelligence created by us. It would be like replacing butter with margarine. All good intentions but poisonous as hell!
GareBear517
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Nov 29, 2017
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I see this as a tragedy but the path humanity is currently on portends that humanity will destroy itself inevitably by depleting its resources, failing to recognize the importance of the flora and fauna in the overall scheme of nature, and ultimately fail to learn from history. I don't think the massive ego humans possess would let anything including A.I. to replace nor succeed them.
SamL
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Nov 28, 2017
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I don't know. Do we program self-sustainability into the A.I.? Do we add routines into the software that computes probability of harm to the environment? I DEFINITELY can see a lot of humans choosing A.I. over raising children. Does that mean these "parents" will say what software is added to their "children"? Very good thought provoking topic!
I_dont_know
Level 7
Nov 28, 2017
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If AI did not consume unrenewable natural resources and had the ability to monotor its advancement the planet would of course start healing from the gross negligence that wasteful greedy polutting humans heeped upon it .With out humans the ecological imbalance would return to normal
richiegtt
Level 8
Nov 28, 2017
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Life.. uh.. finds a way. (Jurassic Park reference)
Human life will prevail, I hope, but unlike most, I actually have some anxiety about the potential of AI overtaking humanity and eliminating us. When will the technological singularity happen, if at all, is the question.
Jarucker
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Nov 27, 2017
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What the world will look like is irrelevant, if we aren’t here to experience it. But assuming AI takes over, I’m assuming it will at least be...uh efficient, I guess. Cool-looking.
Machines don't eat, drink, or breathe, so there is a good chance the environment (over time) would get to the point that it couldn't sustain any plant or animal life.
Machines would just continue to build more and more machines on a desolate planet.
Paul628
Level 8
Nov 27, 2017
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@silvereyes Sure the AI could become smarter than us by building more and more sophisticated machines, but they're still machines and unless something serves a purpose for them it won't be a priority for them to sustain it. It would be like The Matrix as @Annaleda suggested.
Yes, everything dies. The machines just take over.
@silvereyes I thought this was just a hypothetical. Why y'all pilin' up on me? lol
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