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Their is a AI dagger around every corner? AI is not being programmed to enrich the masses. It is being programmed to enrich it's owners. And the AI can only do that which it is programmed to do. The AI will steal ideas, clone them patent them all before Einstein or Nikola Tesla ever get off the pot taking a shit.
A brief observation since you made a reference to the subject op of ai.
Artificial is a word, and intelligence is a word.
Both words widely used with pretty concrete definitions.
But when you combine the two you get a phrase artificial intelligence which is not well defined. It means vastly different things to different people.
When a new concept is formed, any new concept, it takes on a bit of color from projections made by those who use the new phrase. In other words people add something to the meaning of the word based on their own emotions, history, schooling etc.
https://www.psychceu.com/Jung/sharplexicon.html Artificial intelligence has a lot of different meanings depending who you ask.
1) A system designed to superficially mimic human responses
2) A system that can learn the way animals learn
3) A synthesized human like intelligence that has motives which can be programmed.
etc
4) One very obvious definition of artificial intelligence is simply any tool which magnifies or increases the intelligence available to some system.
By that definition any computer is artificial intelligence. A microscope or a telescope also. Very simple objects which you can extend from your senses to increase your intelligence, increase the sum of what you know.
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All of those kinds of artificial intelligence have developed somewhat. 1, 2, 3, and 4 and many others already exist in some form.
Which one should a person focus on?
Obviously a person should try to minimize projection when doing anything scientific, else nightmares.
So that reduces numbers 1 and 3 above. Number two is highly subjective and a person gets into definitions, epistemology, who can say what an animal learns etc.
The last and simplest definition of artificial intelligence remains.
So that starts with humans, who by definition have intelligence.
They use an artificial intelligence tool, computers to artificially extend their intelligence.
So then people, + computers, whats next? You already have an artificial intelligence ecosystem just with those two things. Is there any possible next step?