With the advent of artificial general intelligence and self-designed intelligent programs, new and more intelligent AI will appear, rapidly creating ever smarter machines that will, eventually, surpass us.
The ensuing four days of debate will focus on the following themes: The relentless rise of automation and ever more intelligent machines will be a key issue at the WEF.
"We're working on AI because we think more intelligent services will be much more useful for you to use.
As robots become more intelligent, they will be able to provide the illusion of care –providing practical support, conversation, even intimacy.
Mr. Simon, however, says that the influx of smartphones, Web-ready cars and a host of other more intelligent products will build demand for the company's remote support wares.
As the agents become steadily more intelligent, they will begin to replace more and more of the functions of human intelligent agents: stockbrokers, postal workers, travel agents, librarians, editors, reporters.
Which one would get the gig? "Whether or not it's true that someone with a good memory is more intelligent, they will be perceived as being more intelligent," Santos adds.
For decades educational theory has produced a series of failed panaceas (new math, whole-language reading, writing across the curriculum, discovery-based learning, group projects, etc).. But, in any case, more intelligent teachers will be both more likely to develop on their own better methods of teaching and better able to understand and apply any wisdom that may come to them from above.
No place to hide: As search engine companies perfect this AI and become more intelligent, so will their tracking capabilities.
"Now we're moving toward computation being injected into our lives without our awareness, and more intelligent processing will progress and happen at the edge of our environment," he said.
