Will AI Save Mankind?
Only if mankind decides to save itself will it be saved. So far, with our satanic regime trying to kill us all, the odds of survival are plunging without protest from our captured media. And if the warmongering should abate for some reason, economic self-destruction is guaranteed because of our ever-counterfeiting central bank and the ever-growing mother lode of government debt.
Meanwhile, almost quietly, AI is exponentially working its way into our lives as a useful tool. Will it ever do more? Could one of them pass the Turing Test today? If so, could it go further and bring an end to wars and economic self-destruction? The path of intelligence as laid out by human experts is Narrow AI, General AI, and Super AI. But it seems to be flying past the General stage. Having AI roughly equal to us was thought to be a perceptible stage of development.
But maybe not.
In March 2016, over a period of six days, AlphaGo defeated Lee Se-dol, a professional Go player of 9 dan rank (highest ranking), 4-1, in a match broadcast live throughout South Korea. AlphaGo, an AI developed by Google’s DeepMind, proved conclusively that underlying neural networks could solve problems of incomparable complexity.
The significance of the victory was such that Thore Graepel, one of the scientists who built AlphaGo, declared “the “Holy Grail” of AI had been found.”
“People often say there are more positions in the game of Go than there are atoms in the known universe,” he said.
“But the truth is that if for every atom in the known universe, you had another universe and [if] you counted all the atoms in that collection of universes, that comes closer to the number of positions in the game of Go.”
Brute-force computation, the kind embedded in IBM’s Deep Blue that defeated chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov in 1997, would not work playing Go. It’s not possible to consider every possible move. According to DeepMind, what was needed was a computer that could “mimic the human quality of intuition.” With Go’s nearly infinite possible moves, the AI somehow had to know which moves to consider and which to discard.
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