Organize | Congratulations
Exhibiting | CSDN（ID：CSDNnews）
More than a decade ago, when New York Times reporter Monica Redwood first interviewed Eric Schmidt, who was Google's CEO, he asked a simple question — Google's artificial intelligence technology has been able to monitor all human movements, opinions, relationships and tastes, is it a friend or an enemy?
Schmidt replied, "We claim to be friends. ”
More than a decade later, the reporter asked him the same question about artificial intelligence: "Friend or foe?" ”
Is ARTIFICIAL intelligence friend or foe?
In the future, artificial intelligence will be everywhere. Especially for children, how to become a good friend of artificial intelligence? What would it be like if AI went to war? Can AI perceive reality that we can't perceive? Is it possible for ai-powered people to understand something that humans can't understand?
Schmidt believes that artificial intelligence is dynamic, it is constantly changing. It is novel and will do things that humans do not expect. Most importantly, it has the ability to learn. He agrees with Elon Musk that when we build AI without a self-destruct switch, we are "summoning demons" and humans may end up as AI's family pets, as Steve Wozniak put it, which is a fortunate case.
Referring to the warnings raised by the likes of Musk and Stephen Hawking, Schmidt said that Hawking and the likes believe that by unleashing artificial intelligence, a robot overlord who is 10, 100 or 1000 times smarter than humans will eventually emerge. But, "my answer is different, and I think all the evidence suggests that these IIs are going to be very smart, but they can't think like humans." We will have to coexist. ”
He didn't think Siri and Alexa would kill humans one night, but rather thought these things might become the child's best friends.
People's views on AI are very different. The father of virtual reality, Jayon Lanier, scoffed at Silicon Valley's digital elite obsessed with ai-powered "tech fantasies."
About Facebook changing its name to Meta
Schmidt said an Oxford student had told him about the poisoning of social media, "the combination of boredom and anonymity, the intersection of addiction and hatred, will bring great danger." ”
I would say that 10 years ago, when I worked very these social networks, maybe it was still very simple, but we never thought that the government would use them against citizens as it did in 2016.
Asked if he thought Facebook could get out of trouble by changing its name to Meta, he said, "Google changed its name to Alphabet, but Google is still that Google." The same goes for Facebook. ”
About the metaverse
As for what's going on in the metaverse that Zuckerberg wants to lure us into, Schmidt argues: "All people who talk about superpowers are bragging about an illusion that's more satisfying than the current world — that you're going to be richer, handsomer, more beautiful, more powerful." So, in the coming years, people will choose to spend more time and cost, wearing VR glasses into the metaverse. But who will make the rules? As the world becomes more digital rather than physical, it may not be a good thing for human society. ”
Reference Links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/30/opinion/eric-schmidt-ai.html