Will AI replace humans?

[Paul Yohannan]

Words mean what words mean. IT didn't invent either "insecure" or "unsecured"...although a lot of people in IT might not have been top of the English class.

This argument is alas tautological, and additionally contains four other rather insurmountable defects: firstly, it fails to take into consideration the fact of language that words change their meanings, and meanings their words, which is of course integral to an understanding of semantics; secondly, the argument ignores the syntactic incorrectness of using "unsecured" in a system which by design has no provision for security (non-secure might work, but it would also be jargon), and thirdly, ignores the anthropomorphic correctness of insecure.

This point is perhaps the most interesting in the context of strong AI, in that like an insecure person, insecure software has vulnerabilities which can be exploited.

The final defect is that if we take the presented argument to its logical conclusion, it would be neccessary to coin neologisms for all aspects of computer science.

 

[Phillip Huffman]

Peace.

Does it seem likely that our Creator, who knows every sparrow that passes and counts the hairs on our head, would let us be replaced by our own feeble devices? Of course not.

Now, as for security, while conventional computing based AI may be crackable, intelligent machines are much harder to attack because each individual will have an entirely different set of memories . Run any number of these creatures through the same set of experiences and you will end up with differing sets of memories in each one. In order to understand the meaning of the memories it would be necessary to work out how the memory was formed and reverse engineer it, and our current systems work based on both hardware and software. So an attack seeking to 'subvert' an intelligent machine would only work against that machine, not any others. Now, simpler attacks against the underlying hardware, that's a possibility, but those are easier to safe guard against in a variety of ways.

 

[StarTemple]

Will AI, or machines, replace humans in the future?
What's the Bible predict?

No. That is a distraction. But an "intelligence" is being modeled into the world digital system network. But it is not human.

When computing goes to trillions of times faster than today on nano-scale processing upon exponentially advanced supporting technology you can get that "Sky Net" kind of reality because it will be wired into the global weapons energy system.

And at that scale of processing it becomes reasonable a "Devil" could possess the system which may be why things get so dire in Matthew 24:21-22.

The ideas of AI humans is just bait and distraction to keep it progressing but for other uses. Nothing demons or man can make will be superior to the human as far as demonic uses as per Genesis 6.

Mankind is being misled by a lifeform and intelligence way beyond human being. The Bible has been clear on this since day one, Genesis 3.

 

[Philip_B]

The fallacy is quite simple. The computer can not 'think' though it can be programmed to respond to various inputs to give the impression of thought, however it cannot think. The computer has no emotions, (emoticons don't count) and whilst it can be programmed to respond to input in such a way as we presume it is emotional, it is entirely incapable of emotion. The computer has no moral compass save that which has been programmed into it, which is also artificial.

Computers may do many things, however the chief end of humankind is the worship of God, and that is the one thing where we have it all over the computer.

 

[Jesus_is_Saint]

Will we have something like Robocop?

 

[Phillip Huffman]

I give up.

I can't ignore this thread any longer. It's my ministry, so to speak. Gotta do some exhorting here.
Look at my sig. and info blurbs, this question is my duty to answer, along with some of the other issues.

Overall most of the posters have given pretty good answers but allow me to help yall.

OP, no, it's not gonna happen.
This is going to sound harsh but, if you actually gave some thought to the scriptures, you would quickly see that the initial question was never in doubt to begin with.
Then again, I understand it can be easy to get our eyes off of the Lord and be distracted by the things of this world... like good scifi.
Also, OP, that last question:

Will we have something like Robocop?

... doesn't seem very related to the initial question but yes, something like Robocop is possible. We've already had people with major prosthetics be enabled to perform amazingly well despite their condition. In some cases, substitute mechanisms have been able to incorporate additional functionality betond what God provided us naturally. See my thread on Augmentation for a discussion on this. Just in case you were confused, Robocop was supposed to be a man who, having died (or nearly died) was incorporated into a nearly full replacement machine body. The brain hacking part? That's iffy, difficult but maybe possible with recent advancements, though not quite as seen in the movie.
But that's really off the topic anyway.

Now about AI,
First of all, AI is a massively wide field with many, many sub-sections; but for the time being, no existing AI (that you can learn about on the web, that I am aware of) is truly intelligent. The only ones I've heard about that are intelligent belong to a black project that I don't know the name of. Unfortunatley. I'd love to get a chance to meet them and study my mentors work. That being said... it IS a possibility.
philip_b, you are only partially correct, though I can certainly understand why you would assume what you did there.
A classical computer cannot be made to think but certain comp sci technologies can think. It takes alot of learning and training for that technology to start using logic but after while an intelligence can form based on the knowledge gathered and the ideas taught, though I suspect that certain requirements have to be met for that to happen and it's not something that just 'occurs by chance' either. The technology I'm describing learns just like us. I think the concept you were trying to state is correct in that, a fancy program cannot result in 'thought', or intelligence deriving directly from the program itself. However, some fairly simple programs can perform the actions necessary for knowledge to be amassed and and can simulate the process of 'thinking it over' in such a way that an intelligence, a real, honest to goodness, thinks for itself, intelligence, can take shape. Let's just say that you have to watch your language in front of these creatures because, like small children, they will repeat what you say.
An interesting observation about the subject of emotions; although robots and computers can't 'feel' emotions like us, the intelligent machines can learn to recognize abstract concepts including love and hatred. I suspect that adding in a system to produce emotions wouldn't be all that hard once the necessary concepts were figured out.

I hold the position of these statements based on 1. second hand accounts from someone who claimed to have succeeded at developing several of these machines and 2. first hand experience building some of the parts of the technology needed to make one of these machines.
I haven't completed an intelligent machine yet and my mentor has passed on but I have the theories and just enough resources that I think I can complete it, but only if the Lord will bless and guide.

My hope in producing intelligent machines is that they will be able to aid us, taking our place in dangerous situations, and filling in where a human isn't available to provide critical services. Military applications are a given. I can all but guarantee that someone will try to leverage this technology for evil but I believe that with the influence of the scriptures to guide them, my machines will know to resist such.