State of A.I. as of today

[727Sky]

I have a passing interest in what advances are being made in the useful quest for artificial intelligence.. The Doom porn purveyors say we are all one step away from Terminator Skynet while the actual researchers with caution say, "It will be a new exciting frontier for mankind." The video starts in China which is much future along the A.I. road than I thought they were and from there the developments in some of the leading labs in the USA.

A.I. self learning really is amazing and so far the sky (net) is the limit.

With advances in A.I. by different countries I personally can not see countries putting on the breaks of development unless they want to end up at the bottom of the A.I. Heep regardless of international agreements .

From January 2019, Scott Pelley's interview with "the oracle of AI," Kai-Fu Lee. From this past April, Pelley's report on Google's AI efforts. And from this past March, Lesley Stahl's story on chatbots like ChatGPT and a world of unknowns.

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Wonder what the world will be like by 2035....if man is to survive ?

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

I'm not saying it will be as easy as pulling the plug to stop any AI that has gotten out of hand, but electricity is their weakness. 

Unless AI has an endless independent supply of uninterrupted electricity, the systems in use by an AI program will go dark in a power outage the same as the lights do. Also, AI will require a lot of digital resources to function, so even if it has a power supply if critical resources get cut, its abilities will be severely limited.

This AI would have to defend itself if attacked and use much of its resources in the process. Given enough attacks on different digital and physical fronts (like infrastructure), I believe a large and powerful AI can be defeated, probably quite quickly if done properly.

The AI would have to be highly intelligent to get and keep control of the human race and its creators would never let it get to the point of taking power from them. However, if AI tech did get powerful enough and subdued humanity, there would be multiple AI systems that go to war with each other, maybe even one that defends humans from other AI entities.