Targets last days

This is the last blog post entry in the class and it is kind of sad. This Blog post entry will have nothing to do with target as I actually cant be bothered. This blog post will be about the presentations held in class on what the students decided they wanted to do them on. The topic I found very interesting was artificial intelligence. The part of it that stood out the most was the odds of negative impacts on humanity. This hit me hard as it is very possible that we are standing on the edge of a singularity that could throw us into an age where we are no longer the top of the food chain. This is made even scarier when you look at the robots used in medical nurse training. These robots can simulate breathing, pain, seizures, blinking, everything! These robots are used to train new nurses how to deal with patients and administer medicine. But what happens when this robot is taken over by AI? It acts like a human, can perform almost all the basic human functions, what makes it not a human. The group brought up many good points on how AI could help us in daily life, but also brought up another good point. They said that we should develop AI to a point. We should stop before it becomes sentient. We should stop before it gains the ability to edit its own code when it sees that it can improve. If it gets to that point there's nothing we can do. If you read my last post you probably know about how the AI overwrote all the safeguards we had set in place. This is terrifying. Because if we were sure we could stop it until it's to late, we may be in for a very long and painful journey.

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