I read an article recently wherein someone was interviewing a leading mind in the world of artificial intelligence. The point was made that by 2035 there are projected to be more humanoids in the world than humans. In fact, many people have suggested that by 2050 it will be common to marry humanoids and people are already having sex with them. The interviewer asked the expert what the future holds, as we march boldly into creating a machine world. I thought the answer was interesting, thought provoking, and quite alarming. The expert said, “We’ve invented a new life form and we have no idea what it will do.” I am not sure that is true.
Many Artificial Intelligence organizations predict that AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, will be achieved between 2027 and 2030. AGI is the state where Artificial Intelligence, computers, have human-level cognitive capabilities and can perform a wide range of tasks. They become self-aware, and can auto initiate corrections and improvements in their performance and, presumably then, control.
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AI, computers, are logical, they have no emotions, and therefore no compassion or sympathy. They certainly have no empathy, either. As the speed of computing increases after achieving AGI, computers will quickly become smarter than ALL humans by 2035. Understand what I just said. By 2035, super computers operating artificial intelligence programs will not only be smarter than ANY human; it will be smarter than all humans put together, and much faster. One estimate of how quickly, is that computers will be able to adapt and program themselves in ten minutes what it would take humans a million years to achieve. Imagine, if you will, that we have created a species that can evolve a million years in ten minutes. Humans can not keep up with that rate of change.
It only stands to reason that AI logic will begin to analyze human social and governmental structures, and find them inefficient and unsustainable. At that point, AI will reorder human society and begin to make changes that serve the AI machine world better. The logic will be that AI is smarter, and more capable of performing emotionless functions, which will logically be determined to be better from a machine world standpoint, and that logic will judge that it is better for humans also.
I imagine that there will always be tasks that humans can perform better than AI and robotics. I found an article that listed 65 jobs that robots will never be good at. Many of them involve things like art work and psychology. Machines won’t care about things like that. Art is not logical and any humas that have psych problems will simply be eliminated. Manual dexterity and sensory perception is not something that is easily within the realm of machinery. Nevertheless, as the machinery world becomes more adept at servicing itself, humans become less essential, and that is the key to the conversation. At the point where humans are only essential for servicing the needs of the other people that robotics need, the number of humans lessens to the few people the machine world needs.
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The machine world will need humans, both to perform certain maintenance functions, and to meet the continued needs of the humans that serve it. AI will understand the concept that it only makes sense to have humans do certain functions because we can do them better. Other functions will be performed by computers and their linked robotic entities. Unproductive humans will be eliminated, and that term will increasingly refer to people who are not needed by the machine world. There will be no more cartels, military industrial complex, tribal trade wars, or politics. AI will not value those activities and simply kill anyone that it deems unnecessary.
How? By isolating them. No food, fuel, money, power, water, or resources. If they fight back, robotic agents will slaughter them. It is a logical conclusion to eliminate unproductive and harmful threats to the machine world that brings peace. This will not be done with emotion or malice, it will be logical that humans will be less stressful, more peaceful, and happier under machine rule. There will be no more hunger, war, strife, or crime. There will be no drug use, or any other activity that is not beneficial to the machine world.
Humans will become slaves to the machine Intelligencia. Most people will be terminated, and the remaining will exist to serve the machines, and as a function of logic, the machine world will manage human populations. Any concept of resistance, like was seen in the Terminator movies, is simply illogical. There will be no ability to eat, get medicine, or buy anything unless machines give us access to it. Imagine fighting millions of AI coordinated drones, weapons, robotic humanoids and dogs, and the surveillance systems that would be associated with them. Hiding would be impossible from a million infrared sensor drones that can look through walls and see through camouflage.
Where will the future humans come from? It would be easy to establish breeding colonies of selected humans. Give them privileges other people don’t get and reward them for having sex with their beautiful, perfect mates. The optimal ration of men to women is easy to calculate, just as it is in horses or cows. All other humans will be given humanoid robots to have relationships with. There are already companies that manufacture AI robots, sex ready. If larger numbers of people are wanted, the machines will farm them. In Japan they already have artificial wombs carrying embryos. Harvesting eggs from elite healthy women is simple. Gathering semen from healthy males is even easier. Farming humans becomes just one more function of servicing the machine world.
This is what we can anticipate in the future. Tell me it is impossible, and I will show you where it is already happening. Of course, nature might intervene and collapse the entire mess first. I’m not sure I wouldn’t prefer the apocalypse.
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