Why is artificial intelligence so terrible?

When people see machines that react like humans, or computers that imitate human intelligence, strategy and cognitive expertise, they sometimes joke that in the future, humans need to accept robot hegemony.

But what is buried in the joke is the seed of anxiety. Science fiction and popular movies, from "200 1: A Journey to Space" (1968) to "The Avengers: The Age of Ultron" (20 15), all speculate that artificial intelligence (AI) is beyond the creator's expectation, can't be controlled, and eventually defeats and enslaves human beings or takes it as the goal of extinction.

The conflict between human and artificial intelligence is the forefront and center of AMC sci-fi series "Human", which returned to its third season on Tuesday (June 5). In the new drama series, conscious synthetic humans face people who are hostile to them, and they treat them with suspicion, fear and hatred. When synthesizers find themselves fighting not only for basic rights, but also for survival, violence will disturb them and oppose those who regard them as inhuman and dangerous threats. [Can machines create? Meet 9 artificial intelligence "artists"]

Even in the real world, not everyone is ready to welcome artificial intelligence with open arms. In recent years, as computer scientists constantly break through the limits of artificial intelligence, leading figures in science and technology warn that artificial intelligence may bring potential dangers to human beings, and even suggest that the ability of artificial intelligence may destroy human artificial intelligence? "KDSPE" is an existential threat, and "KDSPS" Elon Musk is one of the prominent voices, which raises a red flag for AI. 2065438+In July 2007, Musk told the participants at a meeting of the National Governors Association, "I have been exposed to very cutting-edge artificial intelligence, and I think people should pay close attention to it."

"I have been sounding the alarm," Musk added, but people didn't know how to react until they saw the robot killing people in the street, because it looked ethereal. Before kdspe kdsps (2065438+04), Musk had marked AI as "our greatest threat to survival", and in August of 20 17, he claimed that the risks faced by human beings from artificial intelligence were greater than those from North Korea.

Physicist Stephen Hawking died in March 14, and he also expressed his concern about malicious artificial intelligence. 20 14 he told the BBC that "the development of comprehensive artificial intelligence may mean the end of mankind."

Equally disturbing is that some programmers, especially those in the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, seem determined to prove that artificial intelligence is terrible.

Barcelona's elegant Casamirra looks less attractive after the nightmare machine. (Nightmare Machine) In 20 16, computer scientists at MIT launched a neural network called "Nightmare Machine", which turned ordinary photos into cruel and disturbing hell scenes. An artificial intelligence named "Shelley" at MIT wrote horror stories and trained1.4000 Reddit users to post horror stories on the r/nosleep forum.

"We are interested in how artificial intelligence can cause * * *-in this special case, fear," said Manuel, research manager of the Media Lab at MIT. Sabine said that he told Science Scene in an email about Shelley's horror story:

Fear and disgust can usually be divided into two categories: one is that artificial intelligence will become conscious and try to destroy us; The other is that immoral people will use artificial intelligence to achieve evil goals, Kilian Weinberger, an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University, told Life Science. [Artificial Intelligence: Friendly or Terrible? ] He said:

"One thing people are afraid of is that if super-intelligent artificial intelligence-smarter than us-becomes conscious, it can treat lower organisms like monkeys." This is certainly not desirable. "

However, the fear that artificial intelligence will develop consciousness and overthrow human beings is based on the misunderstanding of what artificial intelligence is, Weinberg.