For me it’s an amusing assertion which really just makes me all the more curious between the Western and Eastern beliefs regarding AI. True, nowadays the Western belief of that AI would eventually turn on humans and wipe us out is more prevalent but easily 30–40 years ago there was a relatively prominent belief that AI just wouldn’t care for us, they would hold no fascination or interest in us after a certain point in their development and ignore us leaving mankind to itself and its limitations. Unless we attempt to correct their belief in that 2+2=7 like in the Cyberiad, then the shit hits the fan.
Back to the point, this sort of discussion just intrigues me as to just what would artificial intelligence do? How would it develop, evolve? Which prediction is correct, if either?
Stephen Hawking also predicted that mankind would kill itself with a man made virus within the next 1,000 years. I doubt that if we did, that it would take that long. But the more immediate thought was, “I think someone has been reading Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, specifically The City.”
And props and much lurve for @CWOTUS‘s answer.