{"id":1529,"date":"2020-01-25T00:33:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T00:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2020\/01\/25\/a-beginners-guide-to-the-ai-apocalypse-wall-e-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:31:36","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-the-ai-apocalypse-wall-e-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2020\/01\/25\/a-beginners-guide-to-the-ai-apocalypse-wall-e-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"A beginner&#8217;s guide to the AI apocalypse: Wall-E syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Algorithmia AI Generated Summary<\/h3>\n<p>[ad_1]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0. jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This is the second article in TNW\u2019s \u201cA beginner\u2019s guide to the AI apocalypse\u201d series highlighting the potential existential threats AI poses to humankind.  The idea here is that AI-powered machines will attend our every need to such a degree that we become more like cows being herded than humans living freely.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>[ad_1]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/01\/walle.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This is the second article in TNW\u2019s \u201cA beginner\u2019s guide to the AI apocalypse\u201d series highlighting the potential existential threats AI poses to humankind. Read the first article, \u201cMisaligned objectives,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2019\/11\/04\/a-beginners-guide-to-the-ai-apocalypse-misaligned-objectives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize every facet of technology from healthcare to space exploration. Simply put: all technology in the year 2020 and beyond is AI technology. But, what if making everything better actually makes everything worse?<\/p>\n<p>Wall-E syndrome (not a real thing) describes the fear of a future dystopia inhabited by oblivious people who are totally reliant on technology to perform even the simplest of tasks. The idea here is that AI-powered machines will attend our every need to such a degree that we become more like cows being herded than humans living freely.<\/p>\n<p>This clip from the movie <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/h1BQPV-iCkU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Wall-E<\/a><\/em> demonstrates what this could look like:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h1BQPV-iCkU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to look very far to find evidence that lends credence to this prophesy. How many phone numbers do you know by heart? Can you remember all your appointments if you\u2019re somewhere without access to a screen? How would you go about finding out, for example, who the director of cinematography was for the first Saw film?<\/p>\n<p>Without our current AI \u2013 Google Search and Amazon Alexa, and so on \u2013 we might start to feel a little unwise or uneducated. \u201cGoogle it\u201d has forever changed our society. But does that mean we\u2019re on the path to eternal stupidity and laziness?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-human-beast\/201507\/can-artificial-intelligence-make-us-stupid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Some experts posit<\/a> that once we\u2019re freed from the burden of developing new technology to deal with our challenges, our species will intellectually regress. If AI takes over the burden of solving our problems, perhaps we\u2019ll lose our keen edge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2020\/01\/23\/a-beginners-guide-to-the-ai-apocalypse-wall-e-syndrome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full\u00a0 article by Tristan Greene <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algorithmia AI Generated Summary [ad_1] This is the second article in TNW\u2019s \u201cA beginner\u2019s guide to the AI apocalypse\u201d series highlighting the potential existential threats AI poses to humankind. The idea here is that AI-powered machines will attend our every need to such a degree that we become more like cows being herded than humans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[94,92,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-data-science","category-machine-learning"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/e928cfdc7rs.exactdn.com\/info\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/A-beginners-guide-to-the-AI-apocalypse-Wall-E-syndrome.jpg&signature=90525978e15aa04c8f6459bb307a77c6-scaled.jpeg?strip=all","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2TFCd-oF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}