{"id":30793,"date":"2016-10-05T18:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T01:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/forget-the-robocalypse-homo-connecticus-may-be-whats-coming"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:11:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:11:23","slug":"forget-the-robocalypse-homo-connecticus-may-be-whats-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/forget-the-robocalypse-homo-connecticus-may-be-whats-coming","title":{"rendered":"Forget the robocalypse\u2014 \u2018Homo connecticus\u2019 may be what\u2019s coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forget-the-robocalypse-homo-connecticus-may-be-whats-coming.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This new species will coexist peacefully with humans, one Turing Award winner says\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Robots\u2019 potential to take over the world is a commonly expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3122793\/big-data\/will-robots-help-or-harm-its-time-for-big-thinking-ai-experts-warn.html\">fear<\/a> in the world of AI, but at least one Turing Award winner doesn\u2019t see it happening that way. Rather than replacing mankind, technology will create a new kind of human that will coexist with its predecessors while taking advantage of new tech-enabled tools.<\/p>\n<p>So argued Raj Reddy, former founding director of Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Robotics Institute and 1994 winner of the Turing Award, at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not have predicted much of what has happened in AI,\u201d Reddy told an audience of journalists at a press conference. \u201cFour or five things happened in AI in the last decade that I didn\u2019t think would happen in my lifetime,\u201d including achievements in language translation and AI\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3044107\/googles-alphago-scores-4-1-against-south-korean-go-player.html\">triumph<\/a> at the game of Go.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3124469\/robotics\/forget-the-robocalypse-homo-connecticus-may-be-whats-coming.html\">http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3124469\/robotics\/forget-the-r...oming.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new species will coexist peacefully with humans, one Turing Award winner says\u2026 Robots\u2019 potential to take over the world is a commonly expressed fear in the world of AI, but at least one Turing Award winner doesn\u2019t see it happening that way. Rather than replacing mankind, technology will create a new kind of human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30793","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66078,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30793\/revisions\/66078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}