We see AI still making progress with text, image and video generation. But the big impacts are being made in the work sector and people still believe that machines will be copying human behaviour soon enough to be just like a real person. But I'm thinking about this statement and I'm getting concerned a little bit. When a computer can be classified as intelligent with the same capabilities as that of a person, you should also ask yourself a very simple but necessary question of what person this so called intelligent computer has modelled itself after.
A common public perception may be laziness because you know that many of us would probably prefer to have the day spent sleeping rather than doing anything else if not for the fact that we need to go out there and work for daily bread.
There are people who enjoy yelling at their neighbours for ridiculous and sometimes really stupid reasons, they insult a person over water or even over minor boundries being crossed.
There's a poor guy somewhere right now probably wearing one yellow sock and one blue sock on the other foot, eating roasted plantain not caring at all what happens to him and looks happy. This person doesn't give much thought outside his own stomach.
If this was how computers were to behave like people then I am certain that these people whom the computer is modelling their behaviour will result in a confused robot. But that's not what bothers me the most. The worst case scenario is for a computer to imitate a terrorist. With the intelligence power of AI plus evil intent, we're surely doomed.
It is amazing to me how many scientists continue to talk and make statements about such things. If the computer has the ability to have the intelligent capabilities of a scammer, aren't you screwed?