Kind: captions
Language: en
I think that what we're doing now is in
a sense creating our own
successors we have seen the first crude
beginnings of artificial intelligence it
doesn't really exist yet at any level
because our most complex computers are
still morons high speed morons but still
morons nevertheless some of them are
capable of learning and we will one day
be able to design systems that can go on
improving thems themselves so that at
that St age we have the possibility of
machines which can outpace their
creators and therefore become more
intelligent than us it's perfectly
obvious that the development of such
computers would restructure Society
completely they would clearly remove
much of the
mechanical if you can use that term
um the routine work which of course has
taken so much of society's time time of
the human race
and um they're already doing this in
many ways because our society now would
collapse instantly if the computers
would run it were taken away and these
are very simple low-grade
computers and this of course raises
tremendous social and philosophical
problems not uh just a question of
displaced people what will they do what
will the people who are only capable of
lowgrade computer type work what will
they do in the future there a much more
profound question what is the purpose of
life what what do we want to live for
and that is a question which the
intelligent computer will force us to
pay attention to
[Music]