Phrenotopia's video: Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Replace Humanity ft @The ScienceVerse

Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming sentient and subsequently subduing humanity is a very common trope in science fiction. In the Terminator movies e.g. it's "Skynet" that rises up and starts destroying humanity and in The Matrix franchise human beings are just enslaved by intelligent machines. What about this notion that we will eventually create thinking machines that are sufficiently complex for developing consciousness and their very own motivations and agenda. What is the likelihood of this happening given the current state of our scientific knowledge and technology? This is a collab with channel @The ScienceVerse who will delve more deeply into AI itself here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3veQAuTV0I The angle in my own video will be based from evolutionary biology and philosophy. As it stands, there are several salient properties of the mind as resident in human brains that are missing from contemporary computer systems. First of all, there are our emotions being the result of billions of years of natural evolution. Six core emotions were already defined by Charles Darwin himself, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, happiness and sadness, and these also star in Pixar's "Inside Out" movie. Sadness ties in with empathy, which, according to primate researcher Frans de Waal, is correlated with awareness. In fact, conscious awareness, consciousness, or subjective experience form perhaps the greatest mystery of our nervous system. Scholars like Daniel Dennett, Max Tegmark and others argue that this is merely an illusion. However, as a combination of non-determinism and conscious agency, it remains unknown how thought processes work. In the words of Heather Berlin: "It’s still one of the greatest mysteries how this three-pound piece of matter can give us all our subjective experiences, thoughts, and emotions". At the same time, we're nowhere near "Artificial General Intelligence". For instance, many AI researchers admit the limitations of ("narrow") AI and specifically "machine learning". Nevertheless, futurists like Ray Kurzweil will expect machine consciousness to arise naturally on very short term, calling it the "Singularity". Website: https://www.phrenotopia.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Phrenotopian Video Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:16 3:42 The Roles of Emotions 6:00 Empathy & Higher Emotions 9:05 Consciousness & Free Will 11:32 Will AI Replace Us? 13:32 Outro REFERENCES - Stephen Hawking quote: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540 - Elon Musk quote: https://cnb.cx/38EJf67 - Robert Plutchik (1991) "The Emotions" | University Press of America - Hokuma Karimova | https://positivepsychology.com/emotion-wheel/ - Frans de Waal paraphrase: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/sep/19/evolution-frans-de-waal-primatologist - Daniel Dennett (1991) "Consciousness Explained" | The Penguin Press - Daniel Dennett paraphrase: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08kv3y4 - Ray Kurzweil quote: https://bit.ly/2Po3f5q - PZ Myers "Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain" | Pharyngula @ ScienceBlogs | https://bit.ly/2Eg71HH - Heather Berlin quote: "What Would It Mean for AI to Become Conscious?" | Singularity Hub March 2019 | https://bit.ly/35pWJR3 - "A sobering message about the future at AI’s biggest party" | Ars Technica December 2019 | https://bit.ly/2qXhLYo CREDITS Music: - "Ambience composition" by Georgke | https://soundcloud.com/georgke - "Kick and Progressive Leads" by Frankum/Jay | https://soundcloud.com/frankumjay - "Digital Memories" by @Unicorn Heads - "Sprite Star" by @Saibysed | https://soundcloud.com/saidbysed - "What Does Anybody Know About Anything" by Chris Zabriskie | http://chriszabriskie.com/ | CC BY 4.0 - "Move That Azz" by @MK2 | https://soundcloud.com/saidbysed Images: - "Emotional System" - http://www.positivepsychology.com/ - "Quantum Computer" - IBM Research - "Nearu Lab Background" courtesy of Trevor Fox | https://www.deviantart.com/trevor-fox/art/Nearu-Lab-background-808210723 - http://www.pixabay.com/ - Wikimedia Commons Footage: - "I, Robot" (2004) - 20th Century Fox - "Gary Kasparov beaten by IBM Deep Blue" | BBC News - "Atlas doing Parkour" | Boston Dynamics - "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) - Warner Bros - "Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - Universal Sony Pictures - "Frankenstein" (1931) - Universal Pictures - "The Matrix" (1999) - Warner Bros - "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1990) - CBS / Paramount - "Inside Out" (2015) - Pixar / Walt Disney Pictures - http://www.pixabay.com/ COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL Any unlicensed copyrighted material used in this video is done so for purposes of education, review and/or satire and thus covered by "Fair Use". No ownership is claimed for any such materials other than my own.