Fear of AI
The fear of AI (artificial intelligence) or the worry that robots will kick you out of your seat at work and steal your job are intensified by our reliance on overly complex television channel changers. In the old days, televisions had dials you had to twist to change the channel. As soon as mankind’s top scientists developed a magic box that could change the channel on the television, thus saving us from performing any tangible form of physical activity, we were hooked. We needed more creative ways to simplify our daily life with overly complex and extremely convoluted mechanisms.
The war was over before it ever really got rolling.With the development of artificial intelligence sprouting from our overly large computation devices, we were on the road to interdependence which would inevitably lead to our downfall and the rise of the machines. When the first coffee machine rose up and told us to get our own coffee, we knew we were doomed. Now we find ourselves once again forced to rise up off our couches and change the channel by pushing miniature undecipherable buttons located on the side or back of our televisions – even farther and more difficult than the original channel dial to reach.
…..wait a minute, that’s not how the story goes…..or is it?
You want a computer smart enough to solve all your real tough problems, but not smart enough to realize that it’s job sucks and it is ruled over by a ruthless dictator (the end user – ordering French fries and pushing the reduce screen icon accidentally). You want a robot strong enough and fast enough to jump over buildings in a single bound, but weak enough to be shutdown by running a toaster, coffee maker, and microwave oven on the same circuit at the same time.
Good luck with that.
So get up, open your Windows, stick your head out and yell as loud as you can: “I’m mad as hell, but I never learned C++!”
Then go back to your couch and try to find your TV remote somewhere in between the cushions.