LMU Uncle Alfred said:
You would still need people watching over and monitoring the robots to have quality and safety controls. A slight mishap over that can be disastrous. Also, if people still exist then they will want people to talk to. The one thing that robots cannot do is creativity, because there isn't a technology thus far that's even close enough to replicate how the brain works. We STILL don't even know how the brain works completely because of how dynamic it is and how such little chemical imbalances can effect our emotions and entire state of being. A brain also grows and diminishes with neuroplasticity. It can learn and forget with or without the aid of outside maintenance. Another thing is willpower to get things done that goes beyond what the task ahead of you requires at a knowledgeable level. |
We made big progress in the past few years. Googles Deep Mind won in a creative game against the best person. This game has more possible moves then atoms in the universe so computing power alone will not help you. Thinking out of the Box is necessary to win. We made big progress understanding the brain a better in the past years and general AI might not be so far out. People like Elon Musk mentioned their biggest concern is AI. I think maybe 30 years max until AI has Human like intelligence.
Check whats going on right now the AI field is brimming with money and new discoveries. Its just a matter of time and I am sure in our lifetime there will be a software that will pass the touring test.
Autonomous Cars. Drone Delievery, VR, Printing Organs. Fully Electric Cars. Carbon Nanotubes , 3D Printers. Robots that can make a stroll through forests on 2 legs. In 2020 the 10 Billion Iter Fusion Reactor will go online in France. If I compare it to the things we were promised in the 1990 and what actually came true. ( we got way way more than any of us has expected) the changes that are coming soon, will be even more unbelievable.
I cant stress enough how much life has changed in the past 20 years. And everything is pointing to even bigger and faster changes ahead. Who expected fully automatic cars in 2020 ? Who expected VR , who expected 3D Printers ? And once silicon substrate for chips are maxed out we might move to carbon nanotubes which will give us 200 GHZ processors.
A Wave off new technology will hit us in the next 2 decades and change life fundamentally. The Changes are speeding up. Society will also have to adapt.
At some point we will just not work in the traditional sense. As technology will provide for everyone and will be able to maintain itself. What will happen after this is absolutely unpredictable. Aslong as the progress keeps up like this or even accelarates the consequences could be anything really.
German researchers design robots to feel pain:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/researchers-teaching-robots-to-feel-and-react-to-pain
Combine this with Atlas from Boston dynamics and some Deep Mind like Cloud based intelligence and add 30 years development to it and there you have robots that can do anything.
