Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World Page #10

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it can avoid dangers, it

can find food for itself,

it can reproduce,

and it can live for

several years on its own,

robots are nowhere near that point yet

and I think it'll be

great when we have even

as much capability as a cockroach.

I can not only imagine

artificial intelligence

evolving spontaneously on the internet

but I can't tell you it

hasn't happened already.

Because...

it wouldn't necessarily

reveal itself to us.

I think that the biggest

risk is not that the AI will...

develop a will of its own,

but rather that it will follow the will

of people that establish

its utility function,

its optimization function,

and that optimization function,

if it is...

not well thought out,

I mean even if it's relatively...

if its intent is benign,

it could have quite a bad outcome.

For example, if you were...

a hedge fund or a private

equity fund and you said,

well, all I want my Al to do is

maximize the value of my portfolio,

then...

the Al could decide,

well, the best way to do that

is to short consumer stocks,

go long defense stocks, and start a war.

And that would obviously be quite bad.

Such an attack would be much more prosaic

than an invasion of these aliens

in the SpaceX reception area.

I think we're gonna get to the point where

almost everything we do

will be done by machines.

And we'll still need people

but if you ask the question

about will there ever be...

an artificial intelligent

machine that makes movies?

Absolutely yes.

Will it be quite as good as yours?

No one can even come close.

Of course not.

But actually I think

almost everything we do,

we find machines doing better,

and the reason why that's the case

is because machines learn faster

than people can learn.

But they cannot fall in love as we can.

And will it be useful for

machines to fall in love?

Would we want to have machines

that are just like people? I would say no.

Honestly, if a dishwasher

came to me and said

"look, I'm falling in love

with the refrigerator and,

as a result, I have no

time to wash the dishes".

I wouldn't like that dishwasher.

We're going to have a revolution

not only in our technology,

but in our theology.

We don't even have a name for it

but it's around the internet,

it's around connectivity,

it's around building

machines to think for us

and I think we're due for another shift

in our morals, in our....

in our definition of what

it means to be human.

We're right just at the beginning of that,

and so you can see us trying to kind of...

feel out and invent this new society

and invent these new ideas

of what's right and wrong.

What can we depend on each other for...

or what can we expect from each other?

How much do we want to do that?

So I think it's an incredibly creative time

in human history... not

just technologically

but also morally and culturally.

This room should know I'm here.

I should be able to talk to it.

It should be able to give

me an answer verbally.

I should ask where, for example,

is a high-speed printer?

Or where did I leave my keys?

Or where's a book on this subject?

And it should answer me with speech,

with a hologram, with a display,

in a very natural way.

I should maybe use gestures and touch,

and even smell and all my senses

to interact in a very humanistic way

with this technology around us.

And once that technology

comes out into our physical world

and becomes embedded in our walls,

in our desk, in our bodies,

in our fingernails, in our cars,

in our offices, in our homes,

it should disappear and become invisible.

Whereas electricity...

there's a socket in the wall,

you plug in, you get electricity.

You don't care how it's made.

It's not a complicated interface.

It's invisible.

The internet is yet to evolve to that goal

I was hoping for of being invisible.

What's interesting about the internet

is what you're gonna build

on top of it for you and for me.

I call it the internet of me.

It is a world where when you walk into a room

the lights dim to your preference level.

You may have music that starts up.

It may even have complex

protocols for having to interact

with somebody else's internet of me.

That's interesting,

and the world that will emerge as a result,

eventually you won't even need phones.

The environment will be so wired that

your experience will be brought to you.

Your calls will be brought to you,

your advertising, your

content, your work...

all of it will come with you.

That's an internet of me.

It is going to take a leap of thought,

a leap of courage... societally

for us to accept a generation

that's always had an egotistical world.

We tell children very often you have to

play with others, you have to share,

your worldview isn't unique.

But when the world, the objects in it

start to tell them that they are,

that they're different, that's egotistical.

But it will also be a magical world,

one where the wave of a

hand creates doors moving

and objects changing position.

Imagine a generation that's never known

anything else but that.

I deeply regret the fact

that deep critical thinking

and imaginative thinking,

that creative thinking is lost.

In my opinion, computers

and in some sense the internet

are the worst enemy

of deep critical thinking.

Youth of today are using machines

to basically replace

their examination

of the things they're observing.

They don't understand

what they're looking at

or what they're hearing

or what they're learning.

They depend upon the internet

to tell them and decipher it.

They look at numbers instead of ideas.

They fail to understand concepts,

and this is a problem.

My hope would be there

are still going to be

the appeal of deep immersion in something,

that through the school system

we still subject our kids to,

we can really to turn them onto its charms

so they become intrinsically

self-motivated to pursue it.

Whether we use science or ancient Greek

or philosophy,

it's those tools that are important.

Those are the things that people are

gonna be able to use in the future.

The actual information they learn in school

won't be important because it'll be dwarfed

by the information that's coming out

on the internet every single day.

Historians I think will also see

an interesting thing.

They'll probably call the time

around now the Digital Dark Age.

It will be very mysterious because

a lot of things happened quickly

but the records will all be lost.

We don't have the handwritten letters

like we have from, you know,

the founders of the Constitution,

The founding fathers.

We have their letters with each other.

We can see the sort of

background conversation

in creating the United States government.

We don't have the equivalent

for the background conversation

in creating the internet

because it was all done on email.

There's a playful project called

the Wikipedia Emergency Project

that if there's ever going to be possibly

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