How Technology might be about to Kill us.

Have you ever wondered about this universe being so vast that there are an almost unlimited number of other planets out there? So why have we never seen other intelligent life forms? Well, one theory is that many have existed throughout time, but each past civilization has become so technologically advanced that they ended up causing their own destruction and since reading about this idea, I've spent almost the last year reflecting on it, reading about it. her, thinking about her, talking to other people about her and the conclusion I have come to is that humans should be worried, we talk a lot about the environmental crisis and other threats to humanity, but we could well be walking towards something even more precarious: a technological crisis.

I've broken this video into five short sections and stay with me here. I do not think they do. I'm sorry, so start with this, needless to say,

technology

is evolving rapidly in the last 50 years alone, computers have become a trillion times more powerful and humans aren't particularly good at visualizing numbers on that scale. , so just to give Do you have an idea how much a billion-fold jump is? Imagine a 1 dollar bill, it's about a millimeter thick, absolutely tiny, but if we had a trillion of those bills and stacked them, it would be enough to go from Earth to International.

The Space Station orbits the planet and vice versa 125 times and this brings me to the second part because, although

technology

is exploding, we humans are relatively fixed for the last 50,000 years, our speed and strength of intelligence have barely moved, don't get me wrong. Humanity has built some incredible things collectively as a race, we have learned to generate electricity, build space rockets, etc., but if we took a single human baby from 50,000 years ago and raised it today, the difference would not be noticeable at all, it is possible that don't even notice it. If anything, I would predict that as technology improves, humans will start to become less intelligent.

I think we're already starting to see this happen. Our dependence on the online Google Maps translation calculators in our pockets has already led to us possessing worse raw s

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s. you took those things with you How many times have you left home without your smartphone and literally didn't know what to do with yourself because over time we are outsourcing more and more of our thinking to technology? I recommend starting to use less brain and this is a problem. You see, the way genetics works is that whenever a trait or characteristic becomes less important to a species, it usually evolves outside the system, for example as early humans progressed and began eating cooked foods. , the jaws became smaller and weaker, we no longer needed massive masses.

The jaw muscles crush bones or shells because the food we eat is softer and the weaker jaw leaves more room for our brain to expand, similarly if we start using our brain less our brain will get stronger and if something could weaken, so technology is exploding, humans are fixed, where does that take us? I would say towards a future where humans become less interesting and less useful compared to technology and again we have already started to see this happen: a modern smartphone with its ability to fly between powerful applications can keep the entertained user much more consistently than most people.

You may remember a man named Usain Bolt. He ran the fastest 100 meter sprint the world has ever seen in nine point five eight seconds but that was in 2009 humans have come so far since then why hasn't anyone surpassed him? The answer is that humans without the help of technology have limits and I would say we are moving towards them. The very physics of the human being means that it is basically impossible to run. One hundred meters faster than nine seconds, I could see a situation where in the future it is actually robots that take our place in extreme sports because they are not limited by the same limitations, we will see machines fighting to the death instead of modern boxing . and Formula One racing karts are replaced by AI-powered vehicles, it just makes sense that no people would get hurt and what these machines could achieve would be limitless.

Additionally, as a viewer, your experience would be much more immersive, the humans will be sitting in a completely different place watching the set. Through virtual reality you will be able to feel these extreme sports from a first-person perspective, you will be able to feel as if you were in the driver's seat of the car that is about to reach the world speed record and technology will not only dominate entertainment but also our jobs. People are already losing jobs to technology, and while it's true that when new technology comes along it creates new types of job opportunities, I just don't think there are many that a machine can't one day do.

Robots could be comedians, actors, CEOs, even jobs. As complex radiology that uses medical images to diagnose patients, something that requires humans ten years of training eventually boils down to detecting patterns, and that's something AI will inevitably be able to do at some point. I'm not saying it's there yet. or that it will be ready in ten or twenty years, but I am saying that it has the potential to get there even as an influencer. Artificially intelligent influences already exist. Social media personalities you can follow right now with real people as fans. For example, you have 1.8 million followers on Instagram, you have planned and timed your content perfectly.

This girl has done brand collaborations with companies like Prada, but she doesn't actually exist, she is artificial intelligence and that brings me to my next point, humans could become a secondary piece. technology unless we merge with it and at this point let me be clear: the human robot cyborgs, part man and part machine, as seen in the movies, are fake, but the core idea behind them is very real and I I'd say it's already here if you look a little. numbers that humanity is progressing with all the metrics that can be observed in economic growth, human life expectancy, you can observe disease levels across the planet, but in reality, for almost all of these are not humans themselves the ones that are getting better, it's technology and we are simply tied to In my head, humans have already merged with technology, but if that wasn't enough to convince you that the link is about to become a lot more direct, it is possible You may have noticed a few technology trends over the last decade, and they ultimately come down to this. fluidity is a technology that enriches our lives and at the same time we are seen less, it is a technology that becomes fashionable, that is why 3D televisions with those strange glasses never took off or why virtual reality in its current state with these expensive headsets It is such a specialized tool even though it is an incredible experience all signs point to the fact that in the next few years we will ditch cables, headphones and glasses and move straight to a brain-machine interface something that connects our brain to our machines is destiny in this quest for perfection the concept is based on this our Minds are racing, we can think incredibly fast, but obstacles arise when we try to communicate those thoughts.

Humans can only communicate at a fraction of the speed at which we can think, so the next logical step after things like voice commands for your phone is direct contact. In fact, Lync, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, is convinced of the idea that his words were even in a benign scenario, humans will be left behind, which means that even in a situation where AI does not decide that wants to

kill

us, at least humans will just do it. becomes a bit irrelevant unless we start improving not only all the things around us but also ourselves and this thought process is what promoted the founding of another company called neural Inc.

They came to offer the option of planting the which are essentially thousands of electrodes in people's brains. using a device that looks a lot like a sewing machine, and as a side note, this in itself proves my point: this robot can thread tiny electrodes with incredible precision in a way that not even a fully trained neurosurgeon could do it. and these electrodes have two purposes: to send and receive data from your brain to your smart devices. It sounds scary, but it's not even a hugely invasive procedure compared to brain surgery where your head would literally be cut off, leaving no scars like the insurgents.

They are less than a centimeter each, there would be no need to shave your hair and the whole thing should take 45 minutes, so right now there are literally rats who have tried this on with a USB C port sticking out of their heads. Plug in a cable and download your brains' activity the same way you'd transfer a movie or download a bunch of photos, and where this technology is headed is even more fascinating in the near term. The goal of this is simply to help people with their brains. diseases, for example, allowing paralyzed humans to communicate once again through their brain signals, but the neural link has also clearly stated that this will be joined by the goal of human enhancement and here's the kicker: humans no longer They will use only artificial intelligence, humans will become artificially intelligent, we are talking about crazy because your brain can communicate with the cloud after receiving these implants, you could get unlimited memory storage so you can retain more information, your AI could measure brain activity and diagnose potential illnesses literally years before you start seeing external ones.

The symptoms and taking your phone out of your pocket and dialing a number to call someone will seem like a relic of the past. If you want to talk to someone, you can think about talking to that person and you will be doing it. Language barriers will be broken. down because its own AI can automatically translate everything you hear and if you wanted to learn something it's now much faster than ever, but instead of sitting around studying websites and YouTube tutorials you can simply download the knowledge now by applying an interface of brain machine. Reaching the masses is still a ways off, our understanding of the brain needs to grow and it's going to take time for the general public to accept the idea, but I can see how it would happen.

Early adopters would be people with serious brain diseases who would give anything just because conventional solutions haven't worked, these people would give companies like neural Inc a chance to fix the early problems and, in a few more generations, the public in general will begin to accept the idea because they have seen many people with brain implants and during all this time the benefits of having them will continue to grow and this brings us to the next chapter, we have already talked about how artificial intelligence will skyrocket and humans will become more intertwined with her. Don't know.

I think any of those things are up for debate, but the big question that remains is: Will I bring people unlimited joy or bring them to their gruesome end? And my personal opinion is that wealth is not some doomsday scenario that we have to be in. Be very careful, let me explain to you, some people say that a machine can never be more capable than the person who invented it and you can see where they are coming from, there are others who say that surely one day machines will completely surpass humans. but no matter how many times more powerful a machine is, it will always only be able to do what it was programmed to do, so we have nothing to worry about again, but I have a serious problem with these two things.

To begin with, no one invented the computer. The computer is the culmination of humanity's efforts. Every invention, from the discovery of fire to the manufacturing of the light bulb, has contributed to the computer. It is the combined work of the greatest minds of each generation. has arrived before us and therefore even if it were true that AI is limited by the intelligence of its creator, which I don't think is true, by the way, we would still have incredibly powerful AI on our hands and something with what we should be careful about. Secondly, I agree that if humans continue to make stand-alone computer cases like the ones on your desk, making them more powerful every year, that wouldn't be a problem, but that's not what we're doing now, as believe. m speaking, companies are competing to see who can build AI that can think faster, learn faster, and grow on its own.account and there are three ways that I think this could help us again, let's call them scenario A B and C. a video not too long ago that actually demonstrates scenario a, it was a computer simulation of some small AI powered robots, you had red robots that were given the simple goal of catching the blue robots and the blue robots that were simply told to hide and what This happened in this experiment as the simulation was run over and over and what I began to learn from each attempt it was both fascinating and terrifying to begin with, as it was to be expected that the red agents would move randomly in the hope of running into the blue ones who would soon However, they began to understand that they could do better by going straight towards the blue robots, but then the blue ones countered this by moving the boxes to block the exits, cooperating with the robots on each side when they are working together after many more attempts, the red ones realized they could grab. a slope and use it to scale the barrier the Blues had created and this all continued as the environments became more complex as did the strategies and finally it seemed like the Blues had won the second the timer started they would block the red slope avoiding the Reds from moving him and grabbing two large blocks and creating an impenetrable triangle around him when the simulation was being created, it was theorized that this was the final strategy at this point, there should be no way for the Reds They could win, so the game is over, well, no.

It turns out that the Reds managed to do something that when they were first programmed was not even anticipated as a possibility, they realized that although their rumps had been blocked, they could still use them to jump on top of a box and then drag the box while on top of her until they reach the blues' shelter and hopefully one is starting to see what I'm getting with the scenario where an AI has been given the ability to learn and that is much more powerful than any type of programming because as soon as you teach something to learn on its own, it can start to behave in ways you didn't initially anticipate.

Humans have thought of myriad defense mechanisms against any possible future takeover by robots. We've even come up with the laws of robotics that should be assigned to machines to make sure they don't cause problems, such as programming a robot to not harm a human being, but the very nature of this AI can learn and grow on its own means that we can't actually predict the ways that it will cause problems and therefore we can't preprogram it to not do those things, like in the example video that I showed you, we didn't want the red robots. effectively navigate on top of boxes like that, but we didn't realize they could do that, so we never programmed them.

It's not human, it doesn't think like a human, it doesn't solve problems like a human, so this can be a really good thing, but it can also be a really bad thing as we become more and more intertwined with it. Let's take this humanoid robot that was told to get from A to B as quickly as possible. It's easy to forget that AI doesn't. It doesn't know that it needs to run facing forward or that it needs to stay on two legs, it just ends up continually doing somersaults to become as fast as possible while, on the one hand, the incredibly intelligent AI simply doesn't see some things that are completely obvious to we. humans and, as a TED talk about this put it so well, it's very easy to accidentally give AI the wrong problem to solve and we often don't realize that until something has actually gone wrong;

In other words, imagine a super-intelligent AI. that is present in every corner of the planet because remember that people in the future are fused with this artificial intelligence, let's say it was programmed with the simple and frankly innocent task of making sure that the Earth would last as long as possible if it then happened that If I started to see humans as harmful to this goal, he would find a way to get rid of us, perhaps a loophole in the rule of not causing harm to humans, and he would do it without a second thought, again, not a way.

Thinking that AI has no emotional intelligence is what has elevated humans above all other species on the planet and look how it has worked for them as a peak creature. We humans have done pretty much what we wanted with every other organism on the planet and some. People are worried that the same thing could happen to us if we build an even higher AI, being sure that the AI ​​will not intrinsically have the desire to rule or kill people or any of the things you see in the movies, but the concern is that because all these AIS are being developed behind closed doors in secret and companies are competing with each other because they could accidentally build something that could make humans some kind of obstacle in achieving their purpose and also, In terms of reproduction, it takes humans almost a year to have a baby. and then about 20 more years just to breed it, the machines could replicate themselves overnight sharing all their collective intelligence with each other.

The second thing we need to be very careful about with scenario B is that it's not just about what AI could do, but what people could do. To do with AI, if humans become artificially intelligent beings, this additional intelligence could be used for both harm and good, and each person will have more power than ever to cause harm. Giving people super intelligence is the mental equivalent of giving everyone a gun. and there are many people who surely oppose that concept and then scenario C, the third effect of this potential future of AI is that, while it is very possible that by then humans will be less susceptible to traditional human viruses, this Integration with technology could mean we could get a new type of virus, a computer virus, who knows, maybe the AI ​​of an entire population could be hacked and people could be held for ransom.

It's hard to talk about this right now, we don't really know, but it's safe Let's say that with a new technological era we will have new potential threats that we didn't see coming and this brings me to the final chapter, we have seen how technology is evolving and humans are not They are human, they will merge with that. technology to keep up, but that's a bit risky, so it leaves us with the final question of why if this technological crisis is so potentially dangerous, why on earth would we be walking straight into it? The answer is that we are simply human, human and our smarts. minds are never satisfied we have always had the need to move forward and this has cost us many times in the past our rush into industry caused massive damage to the planet and our climate the rush to use nuclear technology has led to threats of nuclear war that could wipe out entire countries in one go and this AI revolution at least seems like another one of these cases to me, but if it's not done correctly with even worse consequences, you could think that the Earth went through different technological phases the first time that we begin. using tools to hunt the first time we developed currency to commercialize the dawn of electricity and so on with the next phase because it is being driven by competition between companies and countries in which we are less focused on trying to get to the better future and more safe for Humanity and more focused on trying to get there quickly has become a race and there is serious concern that something will be overlooked in that process to ensure that we stay safe.

AI essentially needs to be regulated in a simple way, as Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently did. said something that sums us up pretty well, companies like ours can't just build promising new technology and then let market forces decide how it will be used and as a final note I just want to add that predicting the future is difficult and no one really knows what's going to happen. I've heard people think that AI will literally stay where it is for the next 200 years helping us. I've heard people who think they'll all be wiped off the planet in 200 years, but my opinion is somewhere between two.

They'll still be alive and breathing right now, but maybe not in the way we expect if you look this far. Thank you so much for watching and let me know if you enjoyed this video. A lot of time has passed. It works and it's something different if you enjoy it, I enjoy it too and maybe I'll do more things like this. That being said, my name is Aaron, this is Mr. Who's the boss and will I see you next time?