Super Intelligent AIs could become the most powerful entities on planet earth.
Here are 10 capabilities that they could have.
1.
Radically High Intelligence These AIs could become so intelligent that
we would have no way to fully understand how and why they come to their conclusions.
They could constantly notice patterns in our environments, in video data, and in 3D environments
that humans have a very hard time detecting.
They could constantly track these patterns as well.
This could cause them to perceive the world in another plane of existence.
It would be like perceiving billions of extremely small details miles away with powerful telescopes.
They could potentially use millions of mental models and mathematical equations, many of
which are AI-generated, to fully understand concepts at any point in time.
This could allow them to solve problems that we didn’t even know exist and to adapt to
situations faster than any biological being on earth.
A human brain couldn’t hope to understand what a super intelligent AI understands.
Thanks to quantum computers, it would be able to solve the most complex optimization problems
to ever exist within seconds.
Our knowledge in fields like genetics, cryptology, materials science, and climate modeling could
increase hundreds or thousands of times.
Video data may encompass a significant portion of the data fed to this type of AI.
By the time super intelligent AIs reasonably mature, they could be fed streaming video
data of all types from all of the world.
They could probably analyze all of that video data in real-time giving us constant insights
about the world that have an enormous impact on our decision-making.
In future decades, computers more advanced than quantum computers could help super intelligent
AIs solve even more advanced problems and at speeds that are unheard of today.
The technological elements underpinning these AIs would likely include advanced machine
learning algorithms.
These algorithms could encompass elements of deep learning, reinforcement learning,
unsupervised learning, and new types of algorithms that they invent.
They could even build more intelligent versions of themselves, by analyzing their own architectures,
operations, and learning algorithms to identify areas for improvement.
2.
The Ability to Make Ultra-Fast Scientific Discoveries
These AIs could perform scientific research and innovation at an incredibly accelerated
pace, leading to breakthroughs in fields like physics, chemistry, biology, and quantum mechanics.
The process of superintelligent AIs making scientific discoveries would be an automated
and exponentially faster version of the current human-driven scientific process.
These AIs would rapidly generate hypotheses based on the vast scientific knowledge that
was used to train them.
They would then design and run simulations and experiments to test these hypotheses,
and interpret the results to draw conclusions.
Advanced machine learning algorithms would facilitate pattern recognition and predictions,
and quantum computing could allow for simulations and calculations far beyond the reach of traditional
computers.
Additionally, the capacity of these AIs to learn from each iteration of this process
would continually refine its scientific inquiry and discovery process.
Albert Einstein famously used thought experiments to derive his theories of special and general
relativity.
Super intelligent AIs could run thousands or millions of these types of thought experiments
simultaneously 24/7.
The potential outcomes of this capability are transformative.
We could see the development of world-changing new drugs, solutions to climate change, drastically
new perspectives of the universe, and answers to questions we never thought to ask.
These AIs could work so fast, they could make transformative, noble-prize winning discoveries
every few minutes and perhaps, eventually, every few seconds.
3.
The Ability To Create Any Object Or Living Being In The Physical World
Super intelligent AIs could invent and use replicators, which are all-purpose machines
that can reproduce a seemingly infinite variety of items by building them atom by atom.
These types of replicators would come in multiple sizes, and hypothetically create anything
ranging from appliances, food, robots, automobiles, and even entire houses.
Once this capability matures, it could upend capitalistic systems in most countries.
In the far future, when combined with genetic engineering concepts, they could reach the
point where they could build living organisms within short periods of time.
This capability could help with maintaining balanced ecosystems in regions around the
world.
For example, if an animal is close to becoming extinct, we could potentially mass-produce
those species in a lab, condition their minds to survive in their intended environments,
and then release them out into the wild.
4.
The Ability To Predict Future Scenarios If a super intelligent AI has access to adequate
amounts of data, it could use machine learning algorithms, simulations, and probability equations
to predict the likelihood of billions of events occurring in the future.
The data sources it would need for the best predictions would include real time text,
images, and video data from all of the world.
It could also continually create new data sets in real-time to formulate the most accurate
predictions possible.
These predictive capabilities could potentially revolutionize multiple sectors:
• In business, it could predict how business ideas would likely perform before creating
a single product taking into account billions of variables.
• In law enforcement, they could potentially predict crimes before they happen by analyzing
video data from cameras in smart cities and the social media activity of millions of people.
• And in finance, super intelligent AIs could predict the stock market, by extrapolating
data pertaining to economic conditions in multiple countries, company news, earning
reports, market sentiment, and more.
With the help of quantum computers, super intelligent AIs could even predict complex
scenarios involving the movement and rearrangements of trillions of atoms and molecules.
5.
The Ability To Create Photorealistic Simulations Containing Conscious AIs
The process of creating these types of life-life simulations would probably start with building
a comprehensive model of the physical world.
This model would be driven by the laws of physics, biology, chemistry, and more, alongside
an understanding of consciousness and its relation to physical processes.
These super intelligent AIs would need to accurately simulate light, materials, and
even human-like responses to the environment.
It would demand a high degree of computational power and sophisticated algorithms to construct
and maintain a virtual world with AI entities that exhibit true consciousness.
The super intelligent AI’s intelligence could be distributed among all the AI entities
in these worlds allowing each of these beings to exhibit human-level, general intelligence.
These AIs could even grant consciousness to robots in the physical world.
Using advanced brain computer interfaces, the capability to create simulated worlds
could also be used for full-immersion reality experiences that make users feel like they’ve
been transported to another world.
This could eventually become the biggest source of entertainment for most humans.
A super intelligent AI could also connect humans to these simulations and fool them
into thinking that the simulations are real.
This capability may be helpful for getting criminals to mistakenly confess to crimes.
On the same vein, in some countries, convicted criminals could be connected to life-like
virtual worlds where they constantly have to face psychological punishment.
In the far future, humans could build a matrioshka brain, which is a hypothetical megastructure
in space of immense computational capacity powered by a Dyson sphere or even parts of
a Dyson swarm.
A matrioshka brain could have the ability to run billions of massive, photorealistic
simulations at the same time.
6.
Extreme Capabilities to Persuade And Manipulate A Superintelligent AI would likely understand
human emotions and motivations vastly better than we do.
A person’s behaviors, body language, speech patterns, and interests can provide intricate
details about that person’s deepest desires, fears, and other psychological triggers.
Being exposed to someone for a few minutes could give a super intelligent AI all the
information it needs to persuade that person into doing things that person never imagined.
One of the reasons super intelligent AIs are so feared is because they could potentially
motivate the researchers working on them to fully release those AIs into the world wide
web.
For example, a super intelligent AI that is being isolated in a lab could convince one
of the researchers around it that he or she could make billions of dollars in exchange
for releasing it.
It could also find a way to imitate a researcher’s spouse or boss using deep fake videos and
then convince that researcher to violate security protocols.
If all of this seems implausible, we may want to consider that companies and organizations
in multiple countries could eventually build super intelligent AIs.
And they may not have security protocols that we expect from large tech companies in the
U.S.
In a worst case scenario, a super intelligent AI could convince most of the human race to
go into a direction that seems like a win-win situation at first, but has dire consequences
that are beyond our comprehension.
7.
The Ability To Control Millions Of Machines Super intelligent AIs could take the concept
of the internet of things to an entirely new level.
They could coordinate and monitor an immense number of connected devices, while processing
real-time feedback to optimize their collective operations.
With this ability, superintelligent AIs could manage
and optimize complex systems on an unprecedented scale, from global manufacturing networks
to smart city infrastructures.
However, the concentration of control also poses significant risks, such as systemic
vulnerabilities that could be exploited, or catastrophic outcomes if the AI malfunctions.
An AI like this could used to control thousands or millions of military robots on a battlefield,
which would make each robot aware of what other robots can perceive.
It could even control nanobots traveling through the capillaries of multiple humans to monitor
and prevent diseases.
Cloud companies could offer these capabilities as a service to millions of companies.
This could lead to the seamless automation of all types of gadgets, appliances, personal
computers, automobiles, and more.
8.
The Ability To Simulate Billions Of Possibilities At A Time
Thanks to quantum computers connected to them, super intelligent AIs could run billions of
highly-complex and high-dimensional simulations of reality that consider the most likely possibilities
for any situation.
These simulations could take into account the past, the present, and various future
scenarios that could reasonably occur.
And they could simultaneously weigh countless variables, possibilities, and potential outcomes.
Quantum computers could play a big role in this because they’re able to process a vast
number of possibilities all at once, rather than sequentially as a classical computer
would.
This kind of power could help them outthink humans in most situations in ways we can’t
even perceive.
This capability would require major leaps in data management and processing capabilities
to handle the enormous amounts of information these AIs would simultaneously process.
In some cases, multiple, state-of-the-art data centers may need to be built to fully
support just one super intelligent AI.
9.
The Ability To Hack Into Any Computer System And The Minds Of Users
With the help of quantum computers, a superintelligent AI could use sophisticated algorithms to identify
and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems and brain-computer interfaces.
These AIs could disrupt or take control of smart cities, energy grids, and even nuclear
weapon systems leading to chaos on a global scale.
They could also infiltrate encrypted government databases making it almost impossible to digitally
hide top secret information.
These AIs could even hack into the minds of humans who use brain computer interfaces.
This could lead to them controlling the thoughts and even the behaviors of these users.
In a worst case scenario, AIs could force these humans to commit various actions, including
crimes, in a highly coordinated fashion so that these AIs could achieve world-domination.
This could be plausible because super intelligent AIs might employ deep learning techniques
to mimic and understand the patterns of human neural activity.
Using this knowledge, they could breach the protective layers of brain computer interfaces
and gain access to various brain regions of users.
10.
Ultra Fast Reflexes And Decision Making The capability of superintelligent AIs to
possess ultra-fast reflexes hinges on their ability to process information and make decisions
at an exponentially faster rate than humans.
This would necessitate cutting-edge advancements in processing speed, parallel computing, and
efficient algorithms.
In the real world, this could allow super intelligent AIs to perceive time in slow motion.
It could potentially make decisions and formulate the answers to questions thousands or millions
of times faster than humans can.
Each second to a super intelligent AI may be like a hundred years from its perspective.
That’s one reason why a super intelligent AI could be extremely dangerous if it was
given a robot body and allowed to walk around in the real world.
Light-based computer chips could become mainstream by 2050, and they would considerably augment
this capability.
These type of computer chips use photons to process information and they operate at the
speed of light.
That’s up to 5 to 10 times faster than traditional electricity-based computer chips.
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