The Only Way for Mankind to Survive is to Reset Itself

"AlphaZero was created by DeepMind in order to master Chess, Go, And Shogi. To save time I will talk specifically about chess, In where it defeated the most powerful chess engine in the world at that point, Stockfish. It did so within 11 hours of "training". It did this by using tensor processing units to play against eachother and learn via reinforcement learning. It did all this with no access to opening books or endgame tables. Within merely 4 hours, AlphaZero overtook Stockfish 8 in the Elo rating system, And in 5 more, AlphaZero decisively defeated Stockfish 8 with 28 wins, 72 draws, And 0 losses. This was all in less than a day, I'd like to remind you. " wow, It's like this debate was made for me. I play chess, Go, And shogi. I wish you had mentioned go, Because this is the only chess like game that still gives humans an edge over computers. Anyway, This is an impressive feat, But it's not because the computer is "smarter" it's because A) very good processing speed B) The programmers "taught" it how to learn fast (computers can't learn anything on their own) and C) while it didn't not have endgame tables and opening books, It was playing against that computers that did, Thus passing the knowledge. Furthermore, It is well known by competitive chess players that computers can become good at chess by simply knowing a few specific fundamentals. So a computer becoming good over night is not that impressive with our current technology. "- In 2016, Hanson Robotics developed a social humanoid robot which they named Sophia. She imitates human gestures and expressions and is able to strike up a conversation with human interviewers on predefined topics. " I'm familiar with Sophia. The key word here is "predefined" topic. The fact that this robot couldn't talking about anything just further proves that AI can't use abductive reasoning. There used to be this engine on the internet called clever bot. If you didn't try too hard to confuse it, It appeared to talk like a human. But all it took was a little bit of abstracting to show how inept it really was. Never seen the atlas bot. Sounds cool. But you didn't mention anything particularly special about it. As for you comment about not needing mass production to cause the singularity, You're assuming that the robots will just magically get the nuclear codes and push the button and the governments won't stop it. That's not very likely and if that was then problem, Then we should get rid of the nukes, Not all of societies' technology. "You may argue that developers would not program a superintelligence to learn anything at all, But then that's not really an intelligence at all" I agree, But you're assuming that it's possible to make actual "intelligence" I disagree that it's possible. Society has made some impressive AI, But nothing close to human intelligence. AI is just good at processing massive amounts of data. Humans have skills that AI don't such as: Abductive reasoning, The ability to take in massive information about the environment, Reflexes, Instincts, Emotions, Special recognition, Etc. AI has none of these things so I think we're way more than a century away from cracking these things, If it's possible at all. Good debate