'Artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race'

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'Artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race': Stephen Hawking warns a robotic uprising will spiral out of our control
Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that humanity faces an uncertain future as technology learns to think for itself and adapt to its environment
At a London event, physicist said: 'AI may spell the end of the human race'
Professor Hawking was at an event to unveil a communication platform
The platform has doubled Professor Hawking's typing speed and improved his productivity ten-fold
By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 15:39 GMT, 2 December 2014 | UPDATED: 23:01 GMT, 2 December 2014

Our desire to create helpful digital assistants and self-driving vehicles could bring about our demise.

Professor Stephen Hawking has again warned that humanity faces an uncertain future as technology learns to think for itself and adapt to its environment.

Speaking at event in London, the physicist told the BBC that: 'The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.'

This echoes claims he made earlier in the year when he said success in creating AI 'would be the biggest event in human history, [but] unfortunately, it might also be the last.'

He argues that developments in digital personal assistants Siri, Google Now and Cortana are merely symptoms of an IT arms race which 'pale against what the coming decades will bring.'

But Professor Hawking noted that other potential benefits of this technology could also be significant, with the potential to eradicate, war, disease and poverty.

STEPHEN HAWKING'S NEW COMMUNICATION PLATFORM
Professor Stephen Hawking made today's claims at an event in London, during which he unveiled a new communications platform, designed by Intel.

The platform, called Assistive Context Aware Toolkit (ACAT) uses Professor Hawking's existing cheek sensor, which is detected by an infrared switch mounted onto his glasses.

This helps him select a character on a computer.

Software is then used to learn from Professor Hawking and predict his next words.

As a result, he types less than 20 per cent of the characters he would previously have had to type, making communication faster.

This information is sent to his existing speech synthesizer so he can communicate to others.

For example, to conduct a web search, Professor Hawking previously would have had to exit from his communication window, navigate a mouse to run the browser, navigate the mouse again to the search bar, and finally type the search text.

This new system automates these steps.

'Looking further ahead, there are no fundamental limits to what can be achieved,' continued Professor Hawking.

'There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.'

Professor Hawking made today's claims at an event, during which he unveiled a new communications platform, designed by Intel, that will replace his current system.

The platform called Assistive Context Aware Toolkit (ACAT) uses Professor Hawking's existing cheek sensor, which is detected by an infrared switch mounted onto his glasses.

This helps him select a character on a computer. Software from language technology experts SwiftKey is then used to learn from Professor Hawking and predict his next characters and words.

This means he can type 20 per cent fewer characters he would previously have had to type, making communication faster.

This information is sent to his existing speech synthesizer so he can communicate to others through his laptop.
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[Incal]

Could be an option. But judging by how bad we have treated this world it wouldn't be that bad really.

[Unome]

The thing about radically superior intelligence is that nobody can even begin to imagine how to predict it

[LightHouse89]

good mankind is useless.

[igo112]

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[Unome]

Much of the problem here, is that people presume much about 'Intelligence' without appropriately defining intelligence from the onset.

What exactly is intelligence? And why do people value this or that person as more-or-less intelligent? Who represents the standard for 'average' intelligence?

[StonyArabia]

AI would be hard to create, nor it will be similar to anything that is natural, this is just overestimating human capability in creating or inventing this. It's just a sci-fi dream and will continue to be so. The AI can only replace some labour jobs that is it.