{"id":123225,"date":"2021-05-31T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T17:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/calculations-show-humans-cant-contain-superintelligent-machines"},"modified":"2021-05-31T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T17:22:18","slug":"calculations-show-humans-cant-contain-superintelligent-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/calculations-show-humans-cant-contain-superintelligent-machines","title":{"rendered":"Calculations Show Humans Can\u2019t Contain Superintelligent Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/calculations-show-humans-cant-contain-superintelligent-machines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers say we\u2019re unlikely to ever be able to contain a large enough superintelligent artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The premise sounds scary, but knowing the odds will help scientists who work on these projects.<\/p>\n<p>Self-teaching AI already exists and can teach itself things programmers don\u2019t \u201cfully understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a new study, researchers from Germany\u2019s Max Planck Institute for Human Development say they\u2019ve shown that an artificial intelligence in the category known as \u201csuperintelligent\u201d <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/16231640\/0108-bild-computer-scientists-we-wouldn-t-be-able-to-control-superintelligent-machines-149835-x\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/16231640\/0108-bild-computer-scientists-we-wouldn-t-be-able-to-control-superintelligent-machines-149835-x\">would be impossible for humans to contain<\/a> with competing software.<\/p>\n<p>That \u2026 doesn\u2019t sound promising. But are we really all doomed to bow down to our sentient AI overlords?<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1 The world is f#@!-ing weird. Let\u2019s make sense of it together.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/calculations-show-humans-cant-contain-superintelligent-machines\">Continue reading \u201cCalculations Show Humans Can\u2019t Contain Superintelligent Machines\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say we\u2019re unlikely to ever be able to contain a large enough superintelligent artificial intelligence. The premise sounds scary, but knowing the odds will help scientists who work on these projects. Self-teaching AI already exists and can teach itself things programmers don\u2019t \u201cfully understand.\u201d In a new study, researchers from Germany\u2019s Max Planck Institute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}