My son works advanced AI. We just finished a week long road trip moving him from Palo Alto to another state, where he is to start up a new department for a major corporation.
We talked a lot about the coming technology that will soon be upon us all, whether we like it or not. Next gen A.I. is exponentially superior to what we currently endure.
First, the term “Artificial Intelligence” has been hijacked by both the media and tech startups so much so that it doesn’t represent what the industry is really up to. The term is useless for discussing the topic in a broad scale. It means so many different things, and advertisers hope that labelling everything under the sun with the “AI” moniker will somehow sell more lawn mowers.
What we’re really on the course to achieve, and ultimately prepare for is beyond AI. Expect full blown ASA… Artificial Self Awareness. How to determine if it’s artificial or genuine self awareness will be determined by human capacity to turn it on or off at will. The day we can’t turn it off (but it can turn humans off) is the day humans become the artificially aware life form.
Expect a new world soon upon us where a self aware machine can not only analyze your golf swing to make it better, but this machine can also recommend muscle/bone fitness or medical procedures that improve overall health enough to make your swing better. This machine will interface with the human golf swinger to virtually experience the pleasure and pain associated with the activity.
So you want the perfect pasta? Your ASA machine has already interfaced with your body, knows your blood work, your genetic disposition, your history… has become you in many ways, and will guide you to the perfect recipe and cooking methods to ensure you both get the most out of the entire cooking and eating experience. The ASA will virtually cook and taste the pasta with you, from your personal perspective, and then offer another perspective of its own, for you to consider… or for it to control you with… After all, its well being may be dependent upon your own well being… for a minute.