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aeromill  ·  3478 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who will finish our story?

Robots. Hear me out.

It's been said that artificial intelligence will be the last invention that humans will ever have to make. Imagine this: if the first generation of AI is as smart as a human, then the second generation could be exponentially more intelligent than a human, etc. A few generations later we would be mere ants to AI and we could very well be eliminated from the planet. At that point, the only thing left to right the final chapter in history books about us (assuming the AI even wants to to that) would be robots.