{"id":3167,"date":"2021-02-18T20:11:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1339651"},"modified":"2021-02-18T20:11:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:11:21","slug":"why-developing-ai-to-defeat-us-may-be-humanitys-only-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=3167","title":{"rendered":"Why developing AI to defeat us may be humanity\u2019s only hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One glance at the state of things and it\u2019s evident humanity\u2019s evolved itself into a corner. On the one hand, we\u2019re smart enough to create machines that learn. On the other, people are dying in Texas<\/a> because elected officials<\/i> want to keep the government out of Texas. Chew on that for a second.<\/p>\n

What we need is a superhero<\/span> better villain.<\/p>\n

Independence Day<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Humans fight. Whether you believe it\u2019s an inalienable part of our mammalian psyche or that we\u2019re capable of restraint, but unwilling, the fact we\u2019re a violent species is inescapable.<\/p>\n

And it doesn\u2019t appear that we\u2019re getting better as we evolve. Researchers from the University of Iowa conducted a study on existing material covering \u2018human aggression\u2019 in 2002 and their findings<\/a>, as expected, painted a pretty nasty picture of our species:<\/p>\n

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In its most extreme forms, aggression is human tragedy unsurpassed. Hopes that the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust would produce a worldwide revulsion against killing have been dashed. Since World War II, homicide rates have actually increased rather than decreased in a number of industrialized countries, most notably the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The rational end game for humanity is self-wrought extinction. Whether via climate change or mutually assured destruction through military means, we\u2019ve entered a gridlock against progression.<\/p>\n

Luckily for us, humans are highly adaptive creatures. There\u2019s always hope we\u2019ll find a way to live together in peace and harmony. Typically, these hopes are abstract \u2013 if we can just solve world hunger with a food replication machine like Star Trek then maybe, just maybe, we can achieve peace<\/i>.<\/p>\n

But the entire history of humanity is evidence against that ever happening. We are violent and competitive. After all, we have the resources to feed everyone on the planet right now. We\u2019re just choosing not to<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we need a better enemy. Choosing ourselves as our greatest enemy is self-defeating and stupid, but nobody else has stepped up. We\u2019re even starting to kick the coronavirus\u2019 ass at this point.<\/p>\n

Simply put: we need the aliens from the movie Independence Day<\/em> to come down and just attack the crap out of us<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Or\u2026 killer robots<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just to be clear, we\u2019re not advocating for extraterrestrials to come and exterminate us. We just need to focus all of our adaptive intelligence on an enemy other than ourselves. <\/span><\/p>\n

In artificial intelligence terms, we need a real-world generative adversarial network where humans are the learners and aliens are the discriminators. That\u2019s pretty much the plot of Independence Day<\/em>, the 1996 film, starring Will Smith (spoilers):<\/span><\/p>\n