Restaurant lists offer parts of animals that we consider less intelligent than we are. At a modern dinner at Boston Fish Restaurant, I had the remorse for the buyer watching the octopus arm who gave us appetizers. Octopus has a complex nervous system and an excellent scene, and it is among the most intelligent animals.
they Ownership The brain and nervous system containing 500 million nerve cells, two -thirds of them in the nerve cords of the arms. In comparison, it is estimated that the human brain contains one hundred trillion connection between 86 billion nerve cells. As the server approached our table with the dish, I realized that this should be the reason that the restaurant chef felt proud enough to serve the octopus parts as appetizers. Certainly, they will feel bad to serve a more intelligent entity for us for dinner.
It will be the first ground entity to compete with our place in the top of the food chain is the AI. Performing, their bodies consist of silicone chips so that the parts of the human body cannot be digested. But it can digest the human mind. One of the biggest existential challenges of human beings is mental health in the era of artificial intelligence.
Once the number of communications in artificial intelligence systems exceeds a hundred trillion – the value corresponding to the human brain, humans can be processed and controlled by artificial intelligence systems, and octopus on their way to restaurants are treated. During the past decade, social media has served unwanted food for human minds and resulted in a stable society, full of hatred towards people who have never met. Adding artificial intelligence to social media may lead to more polarization and hatred.
86 billion neurons are not enough. We tend to hate people whom we do not know instead of talking to them. One leaves to ask about the peace of human history if the human brain has a trillion and cannot be manipulated. This question can be studied in the distant future by developing artificial intelligence systems with trillion connections.
This technological achievement may require a new structure that goes beyond silicon chips. Future technologies may be inspired by nature, which began on the ground from the soup of chemicals and ended more than 4.2 billion years in a human brain – which consumes only 20 watts instead of Gigawatts needed to operate our current artificial intelligence systems.
How will natural selection look like in the world of superior human intelligence? Is “the most suitable” – the principle that Charles Darwin called for, means that the survivors have the highest intelligence?
Not necessarily. The Nazis officers in the Campings during World War II were brutally effective, but they were not smart, like many of the 6 million Jews. Who will dominate our future history?
There is a scientific way to answer this question. Telescopes provide us with an opportunity to have a cosmic census. By wiping billions of outer planets suitable for housing throughout the Milky Way or by facing technological artifacts outside the Earth near the Earth in the form of a space trash or functional devices, we can obtain a statistical sense of hierarchy in the cosmic diet. Who controls who, either literally – on a physical dinner plate, or metaphorically – through mental control?
To find out, we need to change the priorities in the main current of astronomy and also invest billions of dollars in searching for intelligence outside the ground, rather than focusing on searching for microbes. The search for supernatural intelligence or brains outside the planet with more than 86 billion nerve cells – either artificial or natural, will be a sign of scientific humility and the brand of our intelligence. However, so far 2020 Decimal Display of Astronomy and Astronomical Physics This goal has been marginalized and determined the task of searching for primitive forms of life as a top priority. This is not the best way to get to know the most intelligent partners on the cosmic mass.
Given the fact that astronomers do not recommend allocating billions of dollars to search for super intelligence, we left to predict whether the smartest survived “there. The great director of the Galileo project in search of technological artifacts outside the ground near the ground, Zhenya Shmeleva, who also specializes in biology, alert me to the novel entitled” Invincible “by the Polish writer StanisłAw lem where strange automatic machines develop.
The remnants of previous military machines are probably subject to a lost civilization, an evolution, as it leads to survival, rather than intelligence, complexity. The most advanced smart machines system fails in light of its cognitive load and the high energy demand, while the simplest units of robots similar to microscopic insects multiply as adaptive, decentralized morsing.
When you face a threat, small robots gather in huge “clouds” that move at a high speed and can be unable to intelligently threaten by being brutally effective but completely smart on the individual level, such as Nazis during World War II. In a modern military world led by drones and technology world where artificial intelligence is formed through the measures of improvement and performance, LeM warns us that the instincts of survival without intelligence and sympathy, and power without intention are reasonable results for natural selection between strange civilizations.
As in any blind history of our personal life, we must listen instead of speaking in our first meeting with foreigners. Instead of giving priority to microbes from the bottom of the ground food chain, astronomers should think of the 2030 -year survey of astronomy and astronomical physics that our partner in history, which sits on the other side of the dinner table among the stars, is more intelligent than us. Our long -term survival may depend on this feeling of humility.
