“God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs.”- Jurassic Park (Z.SAADI)

 

 

Human creates AI, AI destroys Human. AI creates more AI. AI creates ‘Human’.

 

What becomes interesting is that Artificial Intelligence is now being created to hold memories, learn from past experiences and remember. What makes a human, well, human is the ability to hold memories unique, as not two people have identical memories even though they lived all their lives together. Instinct, and intuition work in different ways between two people, let alone species. The creation of an AI with memory means not only will the AI naturally become smarter over the course of its life, but in what direction? What would separate a good memory versus a bad memory? In the case of humans, ideally, we are raised by parents/guardians/nannies/wolves and are taught what is right and what is wrong. Last week I wrote about the idea of being raised by AI  or AI being raised by humans as a way of learning, but with the idea of AI capable of memory, there is a possibility of adopting AI as children etc.

What is more intriguing than the fact that AI would become naturally smarter over time is the theory that AI will learn from us, and create their own AI. This brings me to discuss the idea of creating AI as a means to make our lives more efficient, but what will stop AI from creating AI that makes their lives more efficient? In  an episode of the Adult Film cartoon Rick and Morty, mad scientist Rick creates a miniverse to power his car battery, and when power is no longer generated, Rick and Morty (Rick’s grandson/adventure sidekick) enter the miniverse and find out that the miniverse that solely exists to create energy has created its own miniverse that provides it with power. The leader of the miniverse, as well as Rick and Morty, travel into the miniverse’s miniverse and learn that they have also created a miniverse to generate power. This relates the idea of AI creating AI, which will create AI, which leads to everybody playing the part of God. The creation of something with instinct, with intuition, will only lead to them inventing something that does what it was programmed/created to do. Morally, and ethically, where is the line drawn between slavery and creation? Will the AI, who has developed memories, emotions and feelings be given the same rights as humans?