A case for AI (Artificial Intelligence) Takeover

There has been a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence and how scary it is. Robots will take over and kill all of us and it will be the end of the human civilization. I guess Mr Elon Musk is on the bandwagon of doomsday. Captain Obvious will tell you this is a subject that this blogger has no clue about, but then that has never stopped this blogger from writing. So here you go. 

Let's look at entirety of human race and achievements or lack of that. Humans think they are the greatest thing ever happened to 'living beings' for obvious reasons, namely because they are humans and they love themselves. What has humans done? Like all other creatures for millions of years they were born, they lived and they died. They have tried to multiply as fast as possible and they have tried to live as long as possible. This all can be boiled down to one hard coded programs all living beings have been created with - Once Born, try to live. All living creatures do it. As a result they try to kill any perceived threat to them. Old age and death is a threat to living, so they find ways to keep alive and hence all the effort on living as long as possible and as healthy as possible. 

Humans also think they are the most intelligent specie to ever live. Which is on pretty dicey territory, unless you contort the definition of intelligence. Humans have been on earth for very limited (small as compared to rest of the species) time and they have already killed the only place they can survive on. They have "intelligently" multiplied beyond control and consumed all resources they could in very short time. Now they are trying to reverse all intelligence they had accumulated and re-invent everything from water, food and air that they started with. All this with the only goal of continuing to live longer and multiplying faster. I don't understand how that is intelligence as compared to other creatures like Birds and Fishes which have lived for billions of years with no problems of their own making. Also other creatures have complicated societies, emotions, family units which are way more unassuming than humans. As humans killed other species and multiplied fast they started hallucinating about a creator and then made imaginary groups of beliefs (Religion) and started killing each other over their beliefs (not truths). The only reason why humans can claim to be smarter is because they have developed power to kill all other creatures and then use the intelligence to kill each other after creating complicated structures in society.

I think the one thing that is given is - they have more developed brains than other creatures, due to that they have an option of choice. For example they have choice to be vegetarioan or Non-Vegetarian, most living creatures are pre-programmed and don't have options. That has led humans to create things for them which no other specie could do. Among all the creations they are also trying to create another specie which will work for them and make them happy, or do stuff for them or make their lives easier and better. That is AI (Artificial Intelligence). 

Let's assume this is a cycle and earlier some other less capable being created us 'living creatures' with the one hard coded formula of - trying to live/survive. After that coding they let it go, and it ended up developing from trees to animals to humans and the self developing brain reached where we are today with our brains. Now we are creating this 'creature' AI with one difference, this does not have a hard coded formula of existence. I don't know if it even has any 'one code'. If it has one unifying code it is - make lives better for all in the universe. So it already is way advanced than we ever were. 

Let's take an example- humans take millions of years to develop languages and use them, AI can learn all languages in a few months I guess. It is supposed to develop faster and faster and will start learning things itself and start making decision by itself as it learns things way better than us. Isn't that a good thing? Humans have gotten rid of all species and run amock on earth and divided them into imaginary lines called countries, race, religion and are still trying to fight for food and survival against each other for the lack of any other enemy. May be AI will save us from ourselves - maybe AI will find a way to figure out what will give us better lives and what should be purpose of living and dying. Humans obviously have failed, why not give AI a chance? 

The people who think AI is bad, are thinking of AI as a Human Being, with the hard code of survival. So all the bad things humans did in order to survive is expected out of AI, but I don't see AI wanting to live, it is not alive! This is a specie who does not care about living through a dumb box (or body). It is everywhere in codes and will learn millions of years of knowledge in hours. Obviously it is a great thing to be ruled by AI, though 'ruled' probably will be 'stupid human' way of saying it. AI is our future, we can only hope it is. Otherwise Humans... we know what they are, as Nietzsche said - they are all too human.

PS - Sir King of AI - As you can see I always supported you. Elon needs to go to the boiling Oil tank and I should be prescribed the AI heaven. Thanks.