>>49707113Current AI we have is little more than a proof of concept for things that are yet to come, something people 20 years later might see as crude and clumsy, like flintlock rifles if compared to modern firearms.
Depending on how AI will be allowed to develop, it could potentially become smarter and more aware than any human could. While computers are often compared to living brains, they are machines, meaning they can be adjusted to fit the situation, something not quite possible for living creatures. You can't join two brains together to work as one, but computers are very capable of it. Now imagine if multiple brains could be merged into one and made work on one specific task. Or even if you could make one single brain think of only what you need of it.
So as AI is being developed and optimized, and calculating power of computers increases over years, a possibility of a supercomputer consisting of hundreds if not thousands of machines that could learn, reflect and improve on its own becomes more real. We're still quite a long way away from that I believe, it won't happen in any near future, and that is assuming there will be people willing and allowed to do it.
It all will depend on humans in charge from there. The potential of even one such machine is cataclysmic and it could change the course of the world, making previously absurd ideas very possible. Some people will see it as great possibility, while others as great danger to the humanity as we know it. And of course there might be those willing to blindside the possible dangers in hope of seizing such power, so at this point it's only a matter of time before it happens, though I honestly doubt we will live long enough to see it to its full extent.
