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Stephen Hawking believed that a full-fledged artificial intelligence would put an end to the human race, but not all scientists share this opinion. Some believe that in the future AI and humans will become colleagues, while others will become lovers.
About feelings and sex
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and Space X
“I like being human. Sitting at a wooden table and drinking whiskey is a very human experience, but with time it will all get old. Gradually, we too will turn into aliens with big heads and tiny bodies. Feelings will become virtual and supersede real ones. A virtual orgasm will be hundreds of times better than a normal one.” [one]
Ian Pearson, futurist
“By 2030, most people will have some sort of virtual sex in the same casual way that they now watch porn. At first, the idea of sex with robots will seem doubtful, but as people start getting used to them, and as the mechanical behavior and feelings of artificial intelligence begin to improve, this mistrust will disappear.” [2]
Hector Geffner, researcher at Pompeu Fabra University
“Socialization will be a significant change. The film “Her” is thinking in the right direction. We are social beings, we need other people around, but already now in some communities people are more comfortable communicating through machines – instant messengers, mobile phones, and not directly. Once machines become smarter and better able to adapt to users, many people will prefer to communicate with them rather than with real people. Of course, that says a lot about us.” [3]
Ian Pearson, futurist
“Sex and pleasure have been an important part of human life for centuries, and will not disappear anytime soon. VR and artificial intelligence will expand the possibilities, allowing people to explore their desires privately and securely. Social norms are adapting to new opportunities, but despite these shifts, true relationships and love will remain important. How can you not like the prospect of having better and safer sex, while maintaining love and strong emotional relationships with people? [four]
About superhumans and avatars
Mitio Kaku, futurologist
“Robots will become an integral part of our lives when their intelligence is comparable to the brain of a monkey. Now even the most advanced androids have the intelligence of a cockroach. In addition, if you leave a cockroach in the forest, he will go looking for shelter, food and friends, and the android will most likely just get lost. Soon the intelligence of the robot will surpass the brain of a mouse, then a rat, then a dog. By the time their intelligence matches that of the monkeys, it will become really dangerous, so we better get an automatic shutdown button. What if they find a way around it? However, this is already a problem of the XXII century. I believe that we will merge with robots and become superhuman. We will have avatars, that is, mechanical copies of ourselves, and our personality will be stored in a computer. [5]
James Canton, futurist
“The exponential co-evolution of humans and AI is predetermined. AI will be built into our bodies (brains and even our VR twins) to prevent disease, old age, cognitive decline and other human limitations. AI-in-me will be a breakthrough in improving human life: refreshing memories, making us more productive and creative.” [6]
Shimon Whiteson, Associate Professor at the Institute for Informatics at the University of Amsterdam
“In the future, we will all become cyborgs. Usually people underestimate AI by separating people and computers. The latter may be our friends or enemies, but we are separated from them. I believe that this is not true, and in the future, people and computers will merge into a single whole. Imagine how much more productive we could be if we augmented our brains with accurate memories and an error-free calculator.” [7]
On competition in the labor market and teamwork
Mitio Kaku, futurologist
“Robots will change the labor market: professions in which you need to reproduce repetitive actions will disappear. Intermediary professions will also disappear: accountants, cashiers, paralegals. Although the lawyers themselves will not disappear, because it is they who represent cases in court and communicate with the judge. But assistants who deal with papers, look for precedents, will no longer be needed – this work can be done by artificial intelligence. Professions that require spatial thinking, logic and common sense will not go away either. If you show a table to a robot, it will see a square, a circle, a color, and a texture, but it will not be able to independently determine that this is a table. Robots are bad at recognizing patterns and patterns. For example, if your toilet is clogged, the robot will not be able to fix it, because all toilets are different. Robots will not replace gardeners because they have no aesthetic sense. They thought robots would replace scavengers. But that won’t happen either, because the robots can’t tell the difference between trash and usable stuff.” [eight]
Kevin Kelly, futurist
“Deep Blue (a chess supercomputer developed by IBM. — Trends) defeated the world chess champion. People thought it was the end of chess. But it turned out that the best chess player in the world is not artificial intelligence, and not even a person, but a team of a person and AI. The best diagnostician is not a person, and not a neural network, but their team. We have to work together with AI. I think you will be paid according to how well you work with them. Of course, they are different from us – they are tools, and in the future we will work together, not against them or apart. [9]
James Canton, futurist
“Just as we use computers and the internet today, tomorrow we will start using AI at work. We will learn how to customize them, be inspired by them, and together create innovations and discoveries that will bring our world to life. Our neural networks will compete, collaborate and create with other AIs so that we can work faster, smarter and more efficiently.” [ten]