In memory of Stephen William Hawking...
"We will win computers or capture aliens!" - a well-known physicist continues to frighten his predictions.
A well-known physicist did not cease to frighten the inhabitants of the Earth with apocalyptic predictions about evil aliens and burnt out the Earth. We collected the most gloomy forecasts of Hawking. Their value, unlike the grandmother's predictions in the village, is that physicists always talk only about what can theoretically happen, that is, can not be disproved by science. Unfortunately. That's why the forecasts of Stephen Hawking are so interesting.
The Nobel laureate believes that in the next thousand years the inevitable end of the world will come because of nuclear war, artificial intelligence or genetically engineered virus. However, the first and often repeated threat is the climate, the scientist believes.
1. Heat will make the Earth lifeless Who is happy there that there is no snow in the winter? This is a foretaste of the coming cataclysm!
"We are approaching a point of no return, when there will be no way to escape from global warming.Trump's actions (the decision to withdraw from the Paris Treaty - Ed.) May push the Earth's climate to such a point when it becomes the same as on Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees and acid rain, "- said Hawking in the program, which the BBC News channel prepared in connection with the professor's 75th birthday.
2. Artificial intelligence is our last achievement The output of artificial intelligence (AI) out of control can mean the death of all mankind. With this statement, Hawking spoke at the Global Mobile Internet Conference, where he read out a report on the role of AI in the modern world. He said that if humanity can not control artificial intelligence, it will eventually lose, because people are limited to biological evolution and can not compete with machines.
"Along with advantages, artificial intelligence also attracts threats: powerful weapons or opportunities for the few to oppress the majority." The creation of AI can become the last technological achievement of mankind if we do not learn to control the risks" he said.
Computers, overstepping certain levels of power and independence, will be able to improve themselves. This will launch an endless cycle of improvements: more advanced machines will be able to come up with the best upgrades and so on. And they will go their own lives and logic, do they need a person and in what capacity?
3. Rise of the machines: and the Terminator will come? In May 2015, Hawking recalled the rebellion of cars. Speaking of evolution, he noted that there is no difference between the brain of a person, computer or earthworm. This means that computers can emulate the human mind and even work better.
"As a result, computers will at some point overtake a person in intellectual abilities for the next 100 years. When this happens, you need to be sure that the goals of computers coincide with ours." It's very tempting to dismiss thoughts about high-end machines as simple science fiction. it would be our mistake - potentially the worst mistake ever recorded", Hawking said.
According to his forecast, as soon as we become 11 billion - the process of pollution of the planet can become irreversible - just like that!
Why did he do all this?
All Hawking's predictions are only separate manifestations of his basic idea: humanity on Earth is doomed. In addition to bad ecology, AI rebellion or alien attacks, he foresees the extinction of people for a variety of other reasons: nuclear war, space cataclysm, man-made disaster. According to the physicist, the chances for this or that destructive scenario are too great.
Hawking is confident that humanity should colonize other worlds within the next millennium, and the first settlements outside the Earth should appear within a hundred years. Of course, this is not about a general outcome from the planet, but about expanding the human habitat, creating additional worlds, where our species will survive even in the event of a catastrophe on Earth. This is the global goal of Hawking.
Steve, we'll miss you and grieve for you. And you set them there "heat in heaven"!
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