This year witnessed sophistication of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in many autonomous uses in robotics, vehicles, drones, medicine and various industrial appliances. They all operate with varying degrees of capability, coordination and intelligence. The next year is chartered to bring further developments in achieving higher capabilities to match a human brain for decision-making, intelligence or general-purpose learning.

At the time of writing these lines, heated competition is ensuing in the United States and around the world using the joint capabilities of the artificial intelligence to create machines that can even teach and develop themselves. This is what the 100-year-old futurist James Lovelock predicts in his new book “Novacene” or “New Age”, detailing the new evolution of humanity fuelled by AI.

According to Lovelock, the New Age has already begun with Google like AlphaZero as a starting point. Those machines may overtake humans as the superior life form, being the next surge of intelligent life on earth. He warns that humans may soon cede their top spot to their own artificially intelligent creations. A new age indeed where humans could be eclipsed by these machines!

He dubbed such new future “understanders” as “cybergs” that will have designed and built themselves. He asserts that in the ”Novacene”, the replacement of humans won’t necessarily be a violent shift, but simply an evolutionary one instead.

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Originally posted by:

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

www.jordantimes.com

March 1st, 2020