320 Years of History
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You are incorrect. As AI improves robots will most certainly be able to figure out how to both improve themselves, and develop better robots for needs that WE haven't foreseen, but that the robots do.
Red:
And what credible evidence have you to show that you are correct? You will notice that I didn't just respond to you with merely my opinion. I presented a conclusion shown by rigorously developed research. And to that your reply is, "You are incorrect." Based on what? Your saying so? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
320, 'Strong AI' is able to do that, in theory, and the software is coming along that will allow programs to not only design programs (given the specs) but to also devise what the specs should be, what the problem is and what it's solution requires.
That is the goal of people advancing 'Strong AI' and why so many others deeply oppose and conjure up stories and comparisons to the Terminators 'Sky Net'.
Blue:
I think you have missed the thesis point I made with regard to the foreseeable limits of robotic technology/AI:
The one thing a robot or software program cannot and will at no point in the foreseeable future be able to do is figure out that some other kind of robot is needed or wanted, and in turn act to design, build and deploy it/them.
Other:
There's good reason for why that 52% see things as they do. I suggest folks not among them read this:
There is little doubt in my mind that over time machines will come about that can more effectively perform many of the tasks humans today perform for compensation. As I said earlier, the thing for humans to do is focus their skills on performing those tasks that machines cannot, not worry about not preparing for and finding a job doing those things a machine that is, in the near term (within the span of one's career), foreseeably among the things a machine can perform.