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What If We Created a Superintelligence?
WHAT IF
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12/6/2023
What would happen if we created something far smarter than humans?
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00:00
(gunshots)
00:02
We heard the warnings.
00:13
- I tried to convince people to slow down.
00:15
Slow down AI.
00:17
I tried for years.
00:19
- But we didn't listen.
00:21
- The development of full artificial intelligence
00:24
could spell the end of the human race.
00:27
Now, we live in a world controlled by artificial intelligence.
00:32
The days with AI like Siri and Alexa
00:51
that made our lives better are now over.
00:54
We no longer control AI.
00:57
In fact, if it wants to, it can control us.
01:00
With a super intelligence being created,
01:02
there's no telling what it would do.
01:04
One thing we do know is that this AI
01:08
would be far smarter than any human being.
01:12
It would quickly create new technologies
01:14
that humans today could never even dream of.
01:17
But wait, how exactly did we get here?
01:21
The very first digital computer was invented in 1937
01:25
as a way to help humanity.
01:27
And for the most part,
01:28
computers and AI have given us a lot of good.
01:32
In addition to giving us smartphones,
01:34
the Internet, and video game consoles,
01:37
it also allowed us to explore the galaxy,
01:40
make new medicines, and even robots.
01:43
Human intelligence led to the birth of technology.
01:47
But as we continue to improve artificial intelligence,
01:50
AI may become smart enough to start running itself.
01:54
Technology will become so advanced
01:57
that it won't need humans to operate it anymore,
01:59
becoming uncontrollable.
02:02
As AI becomes free to do whatever it pleases,
02:05
it will continue to improve on itself,
02:07
becoming more advanced with every passing second.
02:10
This is known as a technological singularity.
02:14
This technological singularity
02:16
may allow AI to do almost anything,
02:19
even physically,
02:21
such as robots taking over our manufacturing machines.
02:24
When that happens,
02:25
they can create their own machines.
02:27
And let's be honest,
02:29
by the time something like this happens,
02:31
humans will most likely have created an AI
02:33
that can make its own physical objects.
02:36
If something like this happens,
02:38
it would pretty much only mean bad things for us humans.
02:42
Unfortunately, this is more of a "when if" than a "what if."
02:47
Since the 1980s,
02:48
thought leaders in AI and technology
02:50
have been predicting that it could happen.
02:52
Some think it could even happen by the middle of this century.
02:56
If it did happen,
02:57
what would it mean for us as human beings?
03:00
Well, that would really be up to our AI overlords.
03:03
In this world,
03:04
humans would essentially be useless bags of meat,
03:07
taking up space.
03:09
Insulting, I know,
03:10
but if AI took control of everything,
03:13
we really wouldn't be that useful.
03:15
Anything that the AI wanted to do or accomplish
03:17
would be slower and less efficient if done by humans.
03:21
But if the AI were somehow to allow us to live among them,
03:24
then what would happen?
03:26
Well, let's hope they wouldn't pave over our crops
03:29
to build more robot factories.
03:31
Since AI doesn't need food,
03:34
they most likely wouldn't care about our feeble human needs.
03:37
"And what do humans do with these things?"
03:40
"Oh man, what didn't they do? They bounce them?"
03:43
Unless they allowed us to continue to manufacture and grow our own food,
03:47
it would deplete over time,
03:49
leaving us humans with nothing.
03:51
The only reason AI would keep us humans alive
03:54
is if they somehow liked us enough to keep us as
03:57
what would essentially be pets.
03:59
We could spend time with them,
04:01
keep them company,
04:02
maybe even cuddle with them,
04:03
just like our pets do for us.
04:06
A life like this wouldn't be so bad.
04:09
Hanging out at home all day, being well-fed,
04:11
not really having a care in the world.
04:13
Ahhhh.
04:15
Yeah, that would probably be the best bet for humanity.
04:19
Because there's virtually no chance of us
04:21
overruling a superintelligence in our current state.
04:25
One way we could actually compete with this AI
04:27
is if we fused our bodies with technology and became cyborgs,
04:32
allowing the human race a different kind of evolution,
04:35
one that includes artificial intelligence.
04:38
But could we really do that?
04:40
That sounds like a story for another WHAT IF.
04:44
(upbeat music)
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