Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

Singularity is the moment beyond which we can no longer see, we can no longer forecast. It is the moment beyond which we cannot predict how AI will behave because our current perception and trajectories will no longer apply.

in the grander scheme of things, we humans think too highly of ourselves.

Every tech, in moderation, has made our lives better. But then we couldn’t get enough. In our constant striving for more, we always end up with less and yet we still sign up for even more.

The big question, as we evolve into the future of the hyperintelligent machine, is not a question of control but one of ethics.

AI will not replace humans, but the humans who use AI intelligently will replace those who don’t.

It’s not the seed, it’s the field that makes us who we are.

The Technology Development Curve represents the typical progress made for a new technology over time. It looks like a standard hockey stick chart, which is normally used to describe events that accelerate rapidly after a specific “breakout point”– only, with tech development, the handle of the stick is almost horizontal.

‘Change is the only constant.’ I’m sure you’ve heard that expression before. It’s inspiring but, unfortunately, not true. Any analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is not constant. It’s exponential. An exponential trend is a trend that rises, or expands, at an accelerating rate.

‘You see, humanity perfected the use of logic in the post-industrial revolution, capitalist twentieth century. In doing so, they lost the ability to empathize, connect and trust one another. Without human connection, well, what can I say? Their logic was sound, even if it was also destructive . . .’