Skynet is here. Some sort :)
It's too late, we are screwed -- James Cameron
Recently, I have been reading two articles posted by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on his website Gates Notes and which have been reported on Thurrott.com. The subject matter is the emergence of artificial intelligence. According to Gates, a new era has already begun. People around the world start to embrace the power of artificial intelligence. From the health department to diagnose illnesses and prevent the disease from spreading to the human body to law enforcement to look for a missing person or identify a John/Jane Doe. He listed in two separate articles, the pro and cons. Start off with a meeting with people at OpenAI, and how they are training ChatGPT to learn continuously, by passing a battery of biology tests and getting the highest note possible. Gates also listed the benefit of having a personal assistant learning how to perform paperwork, fill insurance claims, and do homework (which would turn students into lazy learners), and even the latest update of Windows 11 came equipped with a Co-pilot feature to get things done. The entire industry is getting on the AI bandwagon, including xAI, the new firm from Twitter owner, Elon Musk and Google.
The coming of AI is analogous to the emergence of the first iPhone, which revolutionized smartphones 16 years ago.
Well, it's all fine. But Bill Gates also listed some cons of AI - like the use of deep fake to impersonate celebrities or taking people's jobs and replacing them with machines, or worse, launching attacks against foreign nations. After all, everything is possible, humanity had its share of the First and Second World Wars, followed by the Cold War that ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The War-related topic was predicted by a man with the same level of bon fede as Bill Gates.
His name is James Cameron.
In 1984, while Bill Gates was at the top of his success story, and working on a thing called Windows that would dominate the computing landscape for the next decade, James Cameron was a struggling filmmaker. The Canadian director wrote and later directed a small movie called The Terminator, following a nightmare he experienced while in Rome, Italy about a knife-wielding metallic torso creeping slowly toward him. The movie was about the rise of artificial intelligence called Skynet that would wage war on humanity in then the near future of 1997. The Terminator went on to be a runaway success, spawning sequels and related merchandising, and cementing James Cameron as an industry-leading innovative filmmaker.
Although the Terminator franchise is pure science fiction, it sounds really far-fetched that AI could take over the world. But Cameron voices his concern with the real-world advancement of AI and its misuse. Imagine if an obscure group would use to take advantage can be catastrophic. So the government needs to set up new tools and consider creating some sort of law enforcement agency that would regulate the use of AI, like Homeland Security or the International Atomic Energy Agency. After all, we don't want to see a naked Arnold Schwarzenegger coming from the future to wipe out humanity.
Wait, am I getting paranoid?
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