(06-14-2022, 06:30 AM)mikesez Wrote: AI is already writing news articles, composing pop music, and making graphics.  All of it needs to be edited by humans, but the AI is able to reduce the amount of time the human needs to produce the work. 
But AI only does things when asked to.  It only builds up its database of background info when it is told to do so.  It does not study on its own.  It does not decide to write an article or compose a song. And that is where I think the technology will never be able to go. It will never have a will or an initiative.  Humans are ultimately driven by a desire for food, companionship, and sex, and we have those desires regardless of if we are doing anything intelligent like speaking or planning, they are at a very base level. A computer program won't have any desires like that.

If I had a nickel for every time someone started a sentence with "they will never" or "it will never," and whatever was never supposed to happen came true, I'd have a lot of nickels.  

Assuming the human race does not self-destruct in the near future, I guarantee you AI will eventually do all the things everyone says it will never do.  I've lived long enough to see it happen over and over and over.

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