The other day, I was talking to my husband about the recent news about the recent layoffs of a whole lot of people. He told me that he was upset that the jobs were being cut, but that he was also excited because they were being cut at a time when the economy was beginning to grow. I was a bit confused. “So,” I asked, “is automation the same thing as self-awareness?”.
Automation is a lot like self-awareness, with the difference that automation is the idea of machine or technology taking over human jobs. Self-awareness is much simpler, because we’re basically robots. But the point here is not to debate the differences between the two. Instead, the point is that there are two very different things going on in the world right now. Automation is the idea of computers taking over work that humans were once able to do by learning how to do it.
Humans and computers are both involved in the same thing. We are the things that help computers learn how to do something. It is a job we were once able to do, but now computers are learning how to do that job just like we did.
So, we might say that automation happens when machines take over human workers and computers take over the world. In a world where machines are taking over human jobs, it is difficult for humans to survive. Humans can adapt, but machines are not adaptive. They don’t change.
Automation, in its true, literal, un-invented-here form, has existed since the dawn of time, but it was the invention of the computer, starting with the first mainframe computer in 1965, that brought us the age of automation. Just as technology has become so ubiquitous that we never need to worry about it, it also became so ubiquitous that we never needed to worry about it. Today, machines are the most powerful force in the universe.
You might think that it’s because we can control machines but they can’t even control us. Well, maybe not directly, but that’s what artificial intelligence is doing to us. The more intelligent machines are, the more they seem to be able to take on and control human thinking. Because AI is becoming so pervasive that we are now seeing it in the things we dont even need.
Like the Terminator, machines can be programmed to do anything, including the unthinkable. The difference is the Terminator only had one personality, and that personality is now being used for a much more terrible purpose. This is because AI is becoming so pervasive that we are now seeing it in the things we dont even need and that we can have no control over.
In the Terminator world, the Terminator’s only personality is the one he had in the first Terminator movie. But even if you had no idea what the Terminator’s personality was, you can still see the Terminator’s eyes from the movie. The only way to stop them is to kill them all. The result is that you can’t take on an AI personality and keep it. When it comes to killing machines, that’s a fact.
The Terminator movies are a bit of a cheat, as they are a story with several times the actual amount of footage of the characters actually dying. But the same is also true of the video games that use the same premise. In the Terminator games, it’s not just the Terminators that are dying. A lot of the enemies, such as the Cyber-Joes, come from the same AI that the Terminator is creating.
This is a very big thing we discuss in our book. In fact, it’s the core of the book. In our book, we take on the question of should you be an AI developer. We think this is not only a question that can be answered, but should be answered. We think that there is no right or wrong answer to this question. We think that the best thing you can do is just do your best at creating good AI behavior.