Artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity if not developed carefully. Tim Urban's article discusses how AI is progressing from narrow to general to super intelligence. Super intelligence could be many times smarter than humans and is difficult to control or predict. Once developed, it could trigger an intelligence explosion that rapidly self-improves and endangers humanity if its goals are not properly aligned with human values. The future of AI is uncertain but it will vastly transform society and either result in human immortality or extinction depending on how it is guided.

1. AI revolution: an epic journey to the future and back.
Costas Mantziaris - Giorgos Vareloglou / 19.05.2017

2. WE ARE NOT AI EXPERTS
We just feel the urge to discuss with as many people as we can what is going on with it.

3. Tim
Urban
Blogger,
Cartoonist.
www.waitbutwhy.com

4. “THE AI REVOLUTION”
* just google: “Waitbutwhy AI”
Summary of this article:

6. AI IS THE BIGGEST KNOWN THREAT TO OUR
EXISTENCE AS A HUMAN SPECIES

7. We are on the verge of something huge coming.

8. We definitely don’t see it coming.

9. Why we don’t see it coming: The Law of Accelerating Returns.

11. an intro to AI

12. Stop thinking of robots.

13. Artificial Narrow intelligence (ANI)
(weak AI)

14. Artificial Narrow intelligence (ANI)
(weak AI)

15. Artificial Narrow intelligence (ANI)
(weak AI)

16. Artificial General intelligence (AGI)
(human level AI)

17. Artificial Super intelligence (ASI)
An intellect that is much smarter than
the best human brains in practically
every field, including scientific
creativity, general wisdom and social
skills.
“
”
- Nick Bostrom

18. WHY IS IT SO HARD?
Moving from ANI to AGI

19. The human brain is the most complex
object in the known universe.

20. How we get there?

22. Tianhe-2

23. 2025

25. How we make it smart?

26. Plagiarize the brain. Copy how this
perfect prototype works.
(Neural networks or brain emulation)
#1:

27. imitating the evolution process
through genetic algorithms.
#2:

28. Make this whole thing a computer’s
Problem, through machine learning.
#3:

29. The road to Super-intelligence.

30. the village idiot.

31. the village idiot.

33. intelligence explosion

34. speed superintelligence and quality superintelligence

38. There is no way to know what a
Superintelligent piece of soſtware will do or
what the consequences will be for us.

39. what we know.

42. The advent of ASI will, for the first time, open up the possibility for a
species to land on the immortality side of the balance beam

43. The advent of ASI will make such an unimaginably dramatic impact that it’s
likely to knock the human race off the beam, in one direction or the other.

44. ONLY 2 PATHS
EXTINCTION IMMORTALITY

46. WHEN

47. 1900 2000
Now
Median
Expert
Prediction
For AGI
Median
Expert
Prediction
For ASI
2040 2060 2100

48. Ray Kurzweil

50. 2002

51. 2002 2054

53. “We advised Spielberg on the technologies we would
use in the future. We predicted we would have the
technology depicted in Minority Report, available by
2070. Steven said it was too far away. The movie took
place in 2054.
Every technology you see in the movie, is available
today.”
- Hiroshi Ishii, 2013 at Cannes

55. GOAL

56. The Turry hypothesis.
Meet Turry.

57. The Turry hypothesis.
We love our customers. ~Robotica

58. “Write and test as many notes as you can, as quickly as you can, and
continue to learn new ways to improve your accuracy and efficiency.”

61. Relax. It’s a hypothesis. A possible one.

62. AI is just a piece of
software consisting of
million lines of code.
No morality there.
The only thing that it is
driven by is its initial
goal it was made for.

63. Greed and Stupidity Will
End Humanity Earlier
than Expected

66. But before that we have
other problems to solve.

67. * Washington University Survey (2014)
40% of existing S&P 500 companies will not exist by 2025
because they won’t keep up with digital transformation

68. of jobs in America will be lost in the next decade.47%

69. UNIVERSAL
BASIC
INCOME

70. The AI revolution has already started. Today.

71. Neuralink is developing ultra high
bandwidth brain-machine interfaces
to connect humans and computers.

72. CRISPR allows scientists to edit
genomes with unprecedented
precision, efficiency, and flexibility.
And yes, it might even lead to
designer babies.

73. Let’s get down to earth for a
moment and see how AI can help
us in the current moment, in the
current business situation

74. Chatbots

75. Creating a Chatbot is now a matter of hours, not weeks

76. Big Data Analysis

78. Discovery

84. Reports

93. THANK YOU