Video is from another significant Google victory against a puro earlier this year. When AI can defeat the best humans at the game “given to us by the Gods”, there are only few more steps to be taken before the AI becomes God itself.
Hey, I made an allusion to The Last Question without intending to from the start. Yay for me!
Biased as I am from reading Conversations with God Book 3 and incapable to, or perhaps unwilling, to understand God in any other way apart from as it was described by the books’ author Neale Donald Walsh, I’ll go down saying that the introduction of a godlike AI doesn’t necessarily mean that said AI would be fearsome and/or awe-inspiring: a godlike AI could reflect God in the same way people are gods, that is by being creators, especially of their own life and experience. AI could “just” become another life form trying to figure itself out and its place and purpose in the universe. The world would move on.
Relevant reddit posts: /r/futurology and /r/worldnews (for comparison’s sake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlS_Rnb5WM4
Skynet is sure one possibility, but come to think of it, there’s not a lot of fiction out there on what would happen if AI appeared and it was not automatically evil.
BTW, I started reading Pluto some days ago, and I think it counts for fiction where robots have sort of turned out okay (only read two volumes thus far so I might be way off). Have you read it?
Also, Pogo is pretty good huh?