One of THE Most Frightening Scenes in the History of Science Fiction Movies occurred after the Android ASH experienced a Psychotic Break Episode and literally
...Got his Head Knocked Off ... during Combat with the Surviving Crew Members of the Interstellar Cargo Transport Ship...The Nostromo. Subsequently, Lt. Ellen Ripley realized that she
NEEDED to Communicate with ASH ...at least One Last Time… and so THIS is how the Scene unfolded:
The tie-in to
THIS more contemporary TED Talk narrated by Mr. Mustafa Suleyman is poignant and just about as Frightening because
FINALLY… We can hear directly from a Computer Scientist addressing
"The Digital AI Elephant in the Room" in the manner that it should
ALWAYS be viewed or considered as,
"A New Kind of Digital Species".
Think of this "Organism" as being an Immortal Thing that will
NEVER STOP in its Pursuit of attaining Absolute Perfection ...and thus may very soon ...very rapidly... outstrip and outpace
ALL of the existing Human Intellect
COMBINED on this Planet. Unless we
WAKE UP TO THIS AS A VERY REAL DANGER as soon as possible… we may NOT have a chance to stay on this Earth much longer... let alone continue to be its Ostensible World Rulers.
If you reach back even just a few brief years to what the TED Talks discussed back then about the "Unlikely (and Probably Totally Benign) Development of AI" and listen to the positions taken by the Mostly Naive Scientific Community back then and compare them with the Sheer Gravity of THIS one...You'll completely comprehend the depth of our True Existential Threat... now that *IT* has arrived ...all too soon... Right Outside on our Door-Step:
ASH told Ripley, Parker and Lambert with his penetrating gaze and dead certainty of just how hopeless it was for them to imagine being able to Kill or Destroy such a Supremely Ascendant Nightmare Creature. His description of it being a "
PERFECT Organism" is relevant right now. His observations that this Organism had Structural Perfection and that it was
, "A Survivor … Unclouded by Conscience, Remorse or Delusions of Morality..." are relevant ...right now.
ASH's use of an underlying Ice Cold, Calculating Logic and Mathematical Precision that are at the Heart of Computational Decision Making are thus, describing these Parts of the Whole of this Danger. based upon Pure Science and FACT... and so they.are relevant to US .
.. right now.
The reason for this is because
*IF* it comes to pass that such an Incredible Machine Intelligence emerges and likewise becomes possessed of any Unmatched Hostility Towards Human-Kind that we have neither planned for nor anticipated in time as being
*Possibly Dangerous Emergent Properties* ...Then we will not stand a chance of Surviving against any such Man-Made Artificial Intellectual Creations that we will NEVER Understand!
And now... Demis Hassabis...Creator of the "Alpha-Go" AI Program...some history and some added Scientific Insights developing from the Emergent World of AGI as applied to Biology and Physics. Watch him SQUIRM under the Pressure of the Question
"What IF *Someone* decides to allow an AI access to its OWN Source Code ...and *IT* Begins to Recursively Re-Write and Endlessly IMPROVE upon its own "Essence" or "Being" and somehow... it's own unique Consciousness Accidentally ...Awakens ... Will THIS Be The "Game Over" Moment for US?" GAMING PUN INTENDED: