My opinion and only speculation, of course, and with the assumption that society doesn't manage to abort the whole process by self-destructing...
Erewhon wrote:
Do robots take over people's lives
In the near-term (decades?) I think robots will
not take over our lives. They won't be smart enough. Robots and electronics will increasingly permeate through our lives and we will become increasingly reliant on them.
Electronics are ahead on that, right now, but
electronics+AI is starting to be a factor--
robots+AI will likely take longer. However, in the near-term robots will likely be increasingly spreading into our workplaces--as better tools.
Erewhon wrote:
Do robots make us dumber
Nah. We do that ourselves. In the near-term (decades?) robots will likely just make us physically lazier. And electronics and AI will increasingly make us cognitively lazier.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -In the long-term (many decades but
not many centuries?)
Moore's Law will increasingly make electronics, and therefore AI and robots, more computationally powerful. We should enjoy that until some advanced AI starts giving itself behavioral reinforcement for generating its own goals...then we'll be on the path to the
technological singularity, though future electronic super-intelligences will likely think of it as
their Cambrian explosion.
Their scientists might look back and think of us as their
primordial soup.
. . . . .
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