to think AI will kill us all?

[thedevilsmarshmallow]

I know that's hyperbolic but some of the advances in technology are happening so rapidly and quickly surpassing anything that humans have done (such as the AI that learnt chess from scratch and became world champion in less than 4 hours!).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42251535

We're fucked aren't we .

I haven't really seen much in "AI" since I graduated in the late 80s. All you're seeing generally is better hardware doing the same old same old. (Used to be called expert systems).

My base test for anything "AI" is to understand language. And we're nowhere near.

Nah, not in our lifetime.

We're more fucked over what the human race is turning out to be, and it's getting worse. We're sinking backwards into racism, hate, violence, terrorism and entitlement. For that reason, we're fucked.

You just pull the plug out. That's what I do when the Dyson is trying to push me down the stairs.

YANBU

It'll get good enough to displace a lot of jobs. If you drive for a living, then you should expect to be in a new career in 10 to 15 years.