AI versus HAI – Human Augmented Intelligence (click title to read)

 

 

For the record, I don’t think that Ai will be a doomsday – Armageddon scenario.

I am personally intrigued and excited to know what our future world is, with Ai .

My thoughts in the text on the title image, are what I believe might happen in the coming decades – Humans integrating narrow Ai into themselves in the form of sensors/devices (even at the Nano-bot level) that monitor the well-being of the human owner…

Also, think of Google Glass – Augmented Intelligence is what such a device offers – The ability to instantly draw up information and knowledge from the cloud and present it within the field-of-view of the wearer - In effect we are offloading our brains (at least the information retrieval part) to another substrate.

This makes Human Augmented Intelligence (HAI) more likely to come about faster than typical AGI.

Now – the “rogue” part of what I believe might occur, – the evolution of such HAI into “Artificial Intelligence” – or Ai devoid of human ownership.

Consider the narrow Ai present in the nano-bots mentioned above – it can for instance, be monitoring neural activity, mapping every synapse that fires in the human owner in response to external stimuli, dreams, thoughts, for the well being of the human owner (say in therapy for Alzheimer’s patients)… now what if such narrow Ai goes “rogue” maybe via initial intervention by a mad-scientist/hacker – [heck, even the NSA had backdoors in supposedly secure encryption solutions aimed at the public] – and via learning and re-programming itself… … …

That, in my belief, is how HAI might evolve into true artificial intelligence – Ai that does not need a human owner, a human “host”