AI will never become smart enough to threaten us. In order for that to happen, we first have to build an AI capable of doing so -- and we are not smart enough to do that.
You just have to set up the framework and let machine learning do the rest. You basically have to define it's goals, its goal being a hardwired inclination to fit in with humanity.
Take engaging with a person with eye contact. You hard wire a natural ability to calculate what a pair of eyes are looking at and give it the red flag that they're looking at you, then they sort out what that means by observing social interaction.
I've seen most attempts at ai and I can say I've yet to see all of our technology put together. Neural networks are a new technology.
By definition, a machine can only do what it is programmed to do. It cannot "learn and grow" beyond the capacities of what we want it to do or what it is made to do. It would take a Godlike ability to manufacture a machine that essentially functions as a human mind, and if hypothetically we had the ability to do so, we would be smart enough to also create a preventative to it ever going wrong. I'm honestly surprised by how many people believe AI can and will take us over. It's easy to be dazzled by our advancing technologies and perfectly human to imagine how impressively it will improve, but people have always thought this way. Keep in mind, back in the 1980s they thought we'd have flying cars and self-lacing shoes by now. "AI will enslave us" is the modern day equivalence of that absurdity, and nothing more.
I think you're extremely naive/uneducated about A.I. we already have machines that can do many things better than we can. And we actually do have flying cars. It just turns out they arent extremely practical compared to regular cars
Sure, there's no denying we have created truly remarkable things, and I certainly am no expert. That's not the question, though. Do you really think that artificial intelligence will ever truly threaten humanity? Agree to disagree if you do, but in my opinion this is near tinfoil-hat levels of thinking. It makes good movie and comic book ideas, but I don't think it's possible. Although I will say I can see why people can believe it. I myself just don't look at such inventions and think "this will be the end of us". As a vague notion and conversation piece, okay -- but as a serious belief? Now, that's just silly...
I'd say finding alien life is more likely. Although I don't think it'll be the advanced life-form UFO alien that we think it to be. I think if it's possible for life to exist on other planets, then it will, but it will be basic and evolving. There's a whole universe out there, it's hard to believe that in its vastness, our Earth is the only thing that houses biological life. Microscopic life on other planets seems like such a fascinating concept to me...
Call it tin foil hat if you'd like but there's no denying the increasingly rapid advancement of A.I. in the past decade and theres no reason to think it's going to come to a halt. A.I. and computers in general are modeled directly after our brains. I see no real reason to believe that we cant eventually program A.I. to learn and create. They already do that to some extent