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Artificial intelligence has been a hot topic for several years now, and after having a quick search around the forums, I noted with some mild disappointment that there was no dedicated thread set up to discuss such a potentially life-altering technology. Anyways. I fixed the aforementioned problem, as you can see. As per usual, politics should be kept out of the comments as much as is possible without impeding proper discussion. Discussing things like how certain countries could employ AI as a weapon against, say, the US, is not for this thread. Discussing how AI itself could take over the 'certain countries,' the US, and the rest of the world is, however. And I say 'take over' with the broadest range of possible interpretations. Whether this relates to the field of medicine and how machine learning could revolutionize diagnostics and treatments, or how AI could in some way solve all our problems and usher in the technological singularity..... Well. That's up to you. Share your thoughts and concerns, predictions, etc. Personally, I'm a bit against AI in some aspects. There's a point where machine learning will get so advanced that it will inevitably outrun human intelligence and our capacity to learn. Assuming that all goes well from that point on (and we don't all die), the AI would presumably grant us access to unbelievable quantities of knowledge, and with great depth. That may sound utopian, but I personally feel like we should not make something that will then out-compete us in every single aspect of our lives, only to turn around at the epitome/ pinnacle, build us some steps, and glide us over to where it's at. And by that I mean that I don't think AI should solve our problems for us. Sure, it has a great many beneficial applications in many fields, but I think we should push the frontiers of knowledge and technological advancement through actual human intellect, not because we made something that ran ahead and granted it to us for free. In my (very very humble) opinion, AI should be used to make the most of what we already to know - to improve on existing processes and boost efficiency, but not to solve the things we are still pushing for as a species. That, I think, we should do collectively, as humanity.