will robot with artificial intelligence rule over the earth in future
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some of the world's smartest people are scared. Or if not outright scared, then alarmed. The list is long. It includes Bill Gates. Stephen Hawking was there in it. And so is Elon Musk. They all warn against smart machines, which are so good at doing things due to their advanced artificial intelligence (AI) that they will do bad things to humans. The concerns are apparently real enough for some of these smartest people to take a public stand on this topic. In 2015, a letter penned by 150 top scientists, entrepreneurs, writers and others warned against the dangers of AI.
There have been warnings outside that letter too. Late British physicist Stephen Hawking warned that the emergence of AI could be the "worst event in the history of our civilisation." Tesla founder Elon Musk is of the belief that the AI research would create an "immortal dictator".
The problem, however, is that beyond the obviously over-the-top and fantastical Hollywood films like Terminator and Matrix, there is not much clarity on what sort of direction AI is going to take. It is possible that to extremely smart machines one day humans may end up looking like meat bags or monkeys that can talk. But that future is so far off that it is impossible for us, even the smartest of us, to envision it in 2018. Instead, the best we can do is see 50 years down the line. Or maybe even 100, which would be prodigal considering that 100 years ago some people in Europe were predicting that in 2018 we would be riding whales to cross oceans, a prediction that we can now call ridiculous.