{"id":162927,"date":"2023-04-28T06:43:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T11:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/there-is-no-a-i"},"modified":"2023-04-28T06:43:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T11:43:45","slug":"there-is-no-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/there-is-no-a-i","title":{"rendered":"There Is No A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/there-is-no-a-i.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a computer scientist, I don\u2019t like the term \u201d A.I.\u201d In fact, I think it\u2019s misleading\u2014maybe even a little dangerous. Everybody\u2019s already using the term, and it might seem a little late in the day to be arguing about it. But we\u2019re at the beginning of a new technological era\u2014and the easiest way to mismanage a technology is to misunderstand it.<\/p>\n<p>The term artificial intelligence has a long history\u2014it was coined in the nineteen-fifties, in the early days of computers. More recently, computer scientists have grown up on movies like The Terminator and The Matrix, and on characters like Commander Data, from Star Trek: The Next Generation. These cultural touchstones have become an almost religious mythology in tech culture. It\u2019s only natural that computer scientists long to create A.I. and realize a long-held dream.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s striking, though, is that many of the people who are pursuing the A.I. dream also worry that it might mean doomsday for mankind. It is widely stated, even by scientists at the very center of today\u2019s efforts, that what A.I. researchers are doing could result in the annihilation of our species, or at least in great harm to humanity, and soon. In a recent poll, half of A.I. scientists agreed that there was at least a ten-per-cent chance that the human race would be destroyed by A.I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a computer scientist, I don\u2019t like the term \u201d A.I.\u201d In fact, I think it\u2019s misleading\u2014maybe even a little dangerous. Everybody\u2019s already using the term, and it might seem a little late in the day to be arguing about it. But we\u2019re at the beginning of a new technological era\u2014and the easiest way to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162927","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}