Not a good time for humanity, the ai singularity is here

[Aoi Magi]

Artificial intelligence was amply demonstrated in 1977 when Deep Blue beat chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov. As impressive as IBM's achievement was, Deep Blue was just a computer doing computer shit, lots of switches in an on/off state. Was the machine actually playing chess or was it selecting from an enormous pool of options? I don't know. If that's what artificial intelligence is, then fine, ok.
Now artificial consciousness or self awareness is something very different, and we are nowhere near creating such a machine. Praise be.

For an AI apocalypse, we don't need self-aware AI, we just need a random dumb AI we are all relying on, and then somehow screwup. As we are increasingly relying on AI, that scenario is quite likely.

Also, our neurons are "lots of switches in an on/off state" in a sense, so an artificial computer brain isn'e too different.