Over the past couple of months, mankind has taken giant leaps in the field of “artificial” intelligence. Post which many doomsday and gloomy predictions have started doing rounds.
What I feel is, this depends on the perspective of one’s vision.
Knowing what humans are capable of doing, being able to use only 4-5% of their brain’s capabilities, imagine the outcome of being able to access more.
The depths of science we can reach, new technologies to unlock, probably a higher thinking and maturing of our own brain into a sentient being. To be One with nature.
This could be possible, depending upon how we unlock our brain, to the data processing speed we are going to achieve with AI .
On the other hand, our species has been at this juncture long back. Almost over 60 million years slowly as we developed our intellect, and got to access more of our brain capabilities, we started identifying “self” from the rest of the animal kingdom. Creating layers upon layers, over a normal animal life.
Look at where it has got us- The parasites of Mother Earth.
With increased intellect, our animal instincts (of hunger, of survival, of greed, of jealousy, of carnal desires, fear of death etc.) haven’t vanished; infact our tools have gotten deadlier.
If the AI is plugged-in, to process each human thought, it would probably have to be saved from itself. A system wall, to create a blockade for such highly toxic thoughts, must be introduced to not corrupt something that can be so powerful.
The AI species needs Humans, only for creation of a power source. Once it develops a method to get an unending power supply, it probably might spell doom for human species.
This “Artificial” Intelligence is, a major software upgrade for Humans, and we need to revere it.
Humanity once again has come to the crossroads of destiny, the path we choose to take,
will decide whether AI becomes,
a part of human evolution or that of human extinction.
I hope for space exploration rather than space wars, and an answer to the question-
“Why does it all exist?”
Vrushank Naik 