Nvidia - Exciting, But Terrifying

Here is an excellent report in Fortune about Nvidia by Andrew Nusca. Here is what I think is the most important part:

“The thing that I believe is going to be really incredible that’s going to happen next is the ability for artificial intelligence to write artificial intelligence by itself,” he (Jensen Huang) replies.

My eyes widen at the prospect as Huang continues. “In the future, companies will have an A.I. that is watching every single transaction - every business process - that is happening, all day long,” he says. “Certain transactions or patterns that are being repeated. The process could be very complicated. It could go through sales to engineering, supply chain, logistics, business operations, finance, customer service. And it could be observed that this pattern is happening all the time. As a result of this observation, the artificial intelligence software writes an artificial intelligence software to automate that business process. Because we won’t be able to do it. It’s too complicated.”

By now my head is spinning, lost in a bizarre vision that somehow combines the films Office Space, The Matrix, and Inception.

But Huang is still rolling. “We’re seeing early indications of it now,” he adds. “Generative adversarial networks, or GAN. I think over the next several years we’re going to see a lot of neural networks that develop neural networks. For the next couple of decades, the greatest contribution of A.I. is writing software that humans simply can’t write. Solving the unsolvable problems.”

You can read the rest @
http://fortune.com/2017/11/16/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang/

Artificial intelligence watching everything and everyone and writing artificial intelligence by itself?

The terrifying part is that Jensen does not appear to see the danger in what he is creating; or even worse, that he can but does not care.

The MOST unsolvable problem is too many humans on this planet. You can bet your sweet bippy that A.I. will solve this by "writing software that humans simply can't write" ... and that will kill most or all of us. There is NO ONE who can guarantee that such a thing will not happen, and plenty of reasons to think it is inevitable.