Artificial intelligence and the future of humanity
Thinking and learning about artificial intelligence are the mental equivalent of a fission chain reaction. The questions get really big, really quickly.
The most familiar concerns revolve around short-term impacts: the opportunities for economic productivity, health care, manufacturing, education, solving global challenges such as climate change and, on the flip side, the risks of mass unemployment, disinformation, killer robots, and concentrations of economic and strategic power.
Each of these is critical, but they’re only the most immediate considerations. The deeper issue is our capacity to live meaningful, fulfilling lives in a world in which we no longer have intelligence supremacy.
As long as humanity has existed, we’ve had an effective monopoly on intelligence. We have been, as far as we know, the smartest entities in the universe.
At its most noble, this extraordinary gift of our evolution drives us to explore, discover and expand. Over the past roughly 50,000 years—accelerating 10,000 years ago and then even more steeply from around 300 years ago—we’ve built a vast intellectual empire made up of science, philosophy, theology, engineering, storytelling, art, technology and culture.
If our civilisations—and in varying ways our individual lives—have meaning, it is found in this constant exploration, discovery and intellectual expansion.
Intelligence is the raw material for it all. But what happens when we’re no longer the smartest beings in the universe? We haven’t yet achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the term for an AI that could do anything we can do. But there’s no barrier in principle to doing so, and no reason it wouldn’t quickly outstrip us by orders of magnitude.
Even if we solve the economic equality questions through something like a universal basic income and replace notions of ‘paid work’ with ‘meaningful activity’, how are we going to spend our lives in ways that we find meaningful, given that we’ve evolved to strive and thrive and compete?
Adapted from https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-humanity/
The word “roughly” in “Over the past roughly 50,000 years” indicates a(n)
The word “roughly” in “Over the past roughly 50,000 years” indicates a(n)
A palavra ‘roughly’ em ‘Over the past roughly 50,000 years’ indica uma
Vamos ver as opções:
A. prevalence – prevalência
B. estimation – estimativa
C. exactness – exatidão
D. manner – maneira
E. time – tempo
Se torna muito simples quando você sabe o assunto ne?
Roughly vem do vocábulo Rough, que é algo “grosso”, então seria algo como ” a grosso modo”, quando você quer dar uma direção mas não tem a certeza do que é EXATO.
Como indicamos estimativas?
Roughly Exemplo: "There are roughly 100 people in the audience." Tradução: "Há aproximadamente 100 pessoas na plateia." | |
Approximately Exemplo: "The meeting will last approximately two hours." Tradução: "A reunião durará aproximadamente duas horas." | |
About Exemplo: "There are about 50 people at the event." Tradução: "Há cerca de 50 pessoas no evento." | |
Around Exemplo: "The project will cost around $10,000." Tradução: "O projeto custará em torno de $10.000." | |
Nearly Exemplo: "Nearly half of the participants agreed." Tradução: "Quase metade dos participantes concordou." | |
Almost Exemplo: "It's almost midnight." Tradução: "É quase meia-noite." | |
More or less Exemplo: "The repair will take more or less a week." Tradução: "O reparo levará mais ou menos uma semana." Essas expressões ajudam a indicar que os números ou informações fornecidos são estimativas e não valores exatos. |
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