{"id":126,"date":"2017-12-04T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/?p=126"},"modified":"2017-12-04T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:22:05","slug":"when-computers-become-smarter-than-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/2017\/12\/04\/when-computers-become-smarter-than-us\/","title":{"rendered":"When computers become smarter than us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/nick_bostrom_what_happens_when_our_computers_get_smarter_than_we_are\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds. Within this century, research suggests, a computer could be as &#8220;smart&#8221; as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: &#8220;Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.&#8221; A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think hard about the world we&#8217;re building right now, driven by thinking machines. Will our smart machines help to preserve humanity and our values, or will they have values of their own?<\/p>\n<p>What I found interesting about this TED talk, is how Nick Bostrom believes that as human beings we have a core desire to progress AI technology until it kills us. He believes there is a part of our minds that actually wants us to die but robot; which ultimately means our progression and intelligence will be the death of us.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the point he makes about us becoming reliant on the robots\/technology, and how that will stop us from hitting the &#8220;off switch&#8221;.\u00a0This made me question how much we rely on robots already. Examples of everyday AI include google maps, Email spam filters and Facebook; all of which I use on a daily bases. Not to say I couldn&#8217;t live without them however, travel, work and communication would be harder without them. A scary thought, one that makes me wonder what technology we will be living with in 10 years or 20 years time; and whether it is improving society or making it lazier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds. Within this century, research suggests, a computer could be as &#8220;smart&#8221; as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: &#8220;Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.&#8221; A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/2017\/12\/04\/when-computers-become-smarter-than-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When computers become smarter than us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorised","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}