Our human activities are, today, seriously challenged by what is called: Artificial Intelligence, AI for insiders. The obsolescence of the current brain is becoming more than a fear: an evidence.
AI and data aggregated by computer systems make each other the short scale. We can say that the human brain is dropped in this race for more performance, and this is only the beginning.
We are already borrowing a few bits of AI to augment the capabilities of this brain. It’s the dawn of augmented humans, aided by invasive techniques, the placement of implants directly in the brain, for example. The ethical, philosophical and moral debate is open.
Silicon Valley researchers have set about developing these new technologies and are making great strides.
Recently, Mark Zuckerberg announced the upheaval of Facebook by the establishment of a new economic model. Tomorrow, the use of computer or smartphone will become ancient history. We will connect with our friends on the other side of the world or in the immediate vicinity, directly, from brain to brain, thanks to the telepathic helmet. In April 2017, Facebook had presented projects in the field of neural interface. These projects already aimed to connect the brain directly to the computer. It is the arrival of the man-machine interface where very quickly we will no longer know who, man or AI, is leading the dance.
Elon Musk, who has set himself the goal of saving our species, considers that our salvation lies in the development of implants intended to increase human capacities. For him, AI is the enemy of man. We must therefore increase our intellectual capacities. The fight against the evil and powerful AI is going to be tough in the 21st century universe.
In June 2016, Elon Musk said: “There is an urgent need to hybridize our brains with microchips before AI turns us into pets. The nicest of us will be fed by AI like we feed our Labradors.”
Let’s keep a cool head, the time when machines will dominate the world has not yet come, but we must admit that they are progressing rapidly. The Artificial Intelligence Index project, which brings together researchers from Stanford University, MIT, Harvard and Oxford, has made this observation. In a first report, AI Index notes a sharp increase in research on artificial intelligence in recent years.
According to this first evaluation, the artificial intelligence of machines approaches or beats that of humans on a growing number of criteria. For now, advances in AI are still leaving machines far behind humans.
But some, including Elon Musk, predict that AI will overtake humans in 2060, others as early as 2030.
Dark prospects for the free will of Man.