Preparing for the Next Cyber Revolution by Joseph N. Pelton

Author:Joseph N. Pelton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030021375
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

What Super-Automation Will Offer to an Overcrowded and Fast-Paced World

One of the first questions that should be asked is, why are smart machines being rapidly developed around the world ? Are these super-fast AI algorithms and investigations by neuroscientists and super-computer engineers being pursued to make possible some of the many advantages that have been noted as possible in this new age of super-automation? The short answer is no. Not even close.

The prime motivation for the development of super-automation and ultra-fast artificial brain processing is industrial efficiency and cost cutting, corporate profits and “winning” within the context of international and capitalist competition. These goals are driving AI research and development activities and the push to achieve the Singularity forward – not altruistic objectives. The motivator is definitely not better education and healthcare, nor is it to relieve the toils of industrial or service workers.

At some point political, business, social and cultural leaders will need to figure out not only where our technological pursuits are leading us but where we wish human civilization to go and what our aspirations should be. Food for thought in this regard comes from the inspirational words of Eric Burgess, the author of The Next Billion Years:

…..the future of thinking beings is restricted only by their thinking, not by material laws. Even a plan to halt the growth of entropy in the physical universe is not beyond their ultimate capability. Earth has an astronomical future as a habitable planet of perhaps six billion years, enough time for a new race of thinking creatures to evolve from blue-green algae if all advanced terrestrial life forms become extinct. But the achievements that a continuously evolving intelligent species might make in 6 billion years are unimaginable…. But mankind has now entered a most critical period. He must deal wisely, both spiritually and materially, with the trauma of the next few decades if he is to inherit a future worth having.8

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