Augustis Kanadas Metsaülikoolis viibiv Skype ja Kazaa üks asutajatest Jaan Tallinn on praegu Austraalias, kus ta andis intervjuu 'The Age' ajalehele.
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Jaan Tallinn argues that human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future.
Jaan Tallinn argues that human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future.
One of the founding engineers of Skype and Kazaa is in Australia to sound a warning to the human race: fasten your seatbelts, as machines are becoming so intelligent that they could pose an existential threat.
Jaan Tallinn argues human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future. Machines are becoming smarter than we are, but Tallinn warns that if we are not careful this could lead to a "sudden global ecological catastrophe".
It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas, they will go extinct.
This sounds like science fiction stuff, but consider the breadth of domains where computers have already caught up to - and then dominated - humans.
Kommentaarid on kirjutatud EWR lugejate poolt. Nende sisu ei pruugi ühtida EWR toimetuse seisukohtadega.
to Robot02 Aug 2012 06:32
Dear Mr. Robot
You may not understand the predicament for humans, since you do not need sustenance. Humans do need to replenish their bodies with food. Present society has evolved to the point where people go to work and earn a wage so that they can provide for themselves and their families.
If you and other machines eventually end up in the distant future doing let's say 80% of all work necessary for humans and you replace a good percentage of the human workforce, then that would mean that only a small percentage of the population (the most adaptive and fittest to "survive") would live well, while the rest of humankind would have to eke out an existence in abject poverty. A society of haves and mainly have nots. I am basing this on, of course, the present model of society, where human work is the currency of physical human survival for the mass of people living on this planet.
ROBOT30 Jul 2012 21:41
What is wrong with that ? Computer screens don't belong to unions , call in sick and don't pass on their biases.
to Robot30 Jul 2012 14:52
Dear Robot
That's easy for you to say...in time you will be putting teachers out of work too, and we will be relegated to taking lessons from you on a computer screen in the future!
