Steve Wozniak Believes AI Robots Will Want Us and Make Us Their Pets

[engine]

This is an interesting interview with Steve Wozniak, so it's worth reading past the initial piece about AI and robots.

I particularly liked the bit about his wanting a computer, and the bit about backups. lol

"They're going to be smarter than us and if they're smarter than us then they'll realize they need us," Wozniak told the audience of 2,500 people today at The Moody Theater in Austin, Texas, as part of the Freescale Technology Forum 2015, which runs June 22-25. Steve Wozniak Believes AI Robots Will Want Us and Make Us Their Pets [techrepublic.com]

"I want the Internet of Things. It does things for me. I don't have to think. The Internet of Things, if it ever did want to take over the world, would send a message to the computers of today saying, 'build us the Internet of Things, that's what we need.' It makes things nice for humans, so we want this. If it turned on us, it would surprise us. But we want to be the family pet and be taken care of all the time," he said.

"I got this idea a few years ago and so I started feeding my dog filet steak and chicken every night because 'do unto others,'" he quipped.

[Selen]

I want the Internet of Things. It does things for me. I don't have to think.

Well, that could be the main reason why robots will be smarter than us.

[lucy24]

Depends what you mean by "smarter" doesn't it? I'm not going to say that the dictionary is smarter than me because it knows more words.

[Selen]

When it comes to vocabulary knowledge alone, a dictionary IS smarter than you or me ;). Since robots will specialize in doing one thing best, they - in a broad sense - may be considered smarter in the future.

[bird]

I think Woz is rather referring to "general purpose smart". That's the kind of smartness leading to conclusions like "humans will fix us when we're broken beyond our own capabilities of repair, so we better make sure they don't go extinct".

To be honest, I've always found the idea of AIs trying to purposefully eradicate humanity rather absurd myself, so I can follow Woz quite well there. Not that I'd expect AIs capable of deciding either way to actually happen within any of our lifetimes...