We've had an extremely light discussion around AI with artists complaining realising they too can be automated, we had the concept of a literal baby making facility, I'm assuming genetic rewriting for immortality is next week...
But getting away from the leftist takes on these subjects and the meming on facing a skynet/matrix future, what are the real opinions you have on this kind of tech?
Personally, with AI it's a Pandora's box, if we CAN create sentient artificial life, best hope is not to do it but if a dumbass does we imbrace and integrate that being, as starting conflict will probably be the reason we die.
As for artificial wombs, having the tech is needed but not in this commercial sense that video presentation gave, more as a 'last resort, literally required to save humanity' sense.
These are the two ones mentioned this week alone but any other tech you put on the 'forbidden' side or your takes on the ones disscussed.
I am of the firm belief that we will never make true Artificial Intelligence. Of course, there will be the increase in power of supercomputers, but they will be more for either doing incredibly large and complex calculations, such as charting intergalactic travel paths or sorting vast amounts of data, or operate as wide-governors, running countless systems simultaneously with efficiency maximized.
Creative thinking, or making a computer that is true AI and is smarter than us, will not be possible. It may mimic intelligence, but at the end of the day the human behind it will always have the creativity to outwit it. Computers never do well when in a situation that doesn't have concrete barriers. I will always believe that the people behind the machines, telling them what to do, will be far more dangerous than any AI itself.