Could A.I be the end of humans?

Try reading The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose, which is an excellent book discussing the possibility of AI. It's a very well known book of its genre (popular science) by a well respected mathematical physicist.

My opinion is that no, a machine can never gain consciousness, through being programmed. But a combination of biology/cloning/technology... then perhaps you have something.

We already are controlled and limited by our technology. I think the idea of a machine that thinks like humans do is not the real fear at all.

I think just machines being machines is enough of a problem.

In one sense we already have such machines existing as corporations and bureaucracies. The system is basically mechanical and it makes decisions based only on logical algorithms designed to maximize profit instead of human well being.

people have a cutting-edge called dedication. no count number how progressed AI turns into, people will continuously have an instinct to tell them good from incorrect. Robots programming will tell them the main reasonable thank you to get to their objective. place a ball in the back of a small fence. the objective is to get to the ball. A robotic might pass at cutting-edge interior the process the fence until it gets to the ball. A human might seem for a gate, or perchance hop over the fence, pass around the fence, dig under the fence, or in simple terms ask a guy or woman available them the ball. and that i like your analogy to a gun, yet save this in innovations: a gun can hearth with out killing. regardless of if the gun substitute into to pass off, it'd require ammo loaded interior the gun. weapons would sit down for hundreds of years with out somebody to tug the set off. you could as nicely verify "Ripley's have self belief it or no longer" yet a guy amassed over a hundred and eighty weapons with out ever firing one. as long surprisingly much as good human beings stay, attempt to no longer lose desire.

Theoretically, yes. But a thinking machine may not decide to destroy us but, rather, control us, as it would know what's "best" for us. Scary thought.

But I wouldn't worry too much. There are varying degrees of intelligence. I'm sure you know a few people on the low end of the scale...

No, a machine has no ability for real consciousness because it's a machine & isn't alive as we are!

You have been reading/watching too much fantasy, time to wake up to the real world!

It could always turn out like the movie I.Robot, in the sense where they go crazy and almost wipe out the human race, but some brave person saves us. *laughs*

Do all babies, when they gain a sense of consciousness and become self-aware, regard their mothers as enemies?

What makes you think computers will do it?

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This was the premise of 'The Terminator' films.

I doubt that we could make a machine that decided to kill us but maybe one day we will.

i think what might happen is that humans and technology will merge so much at a point that maybe there is no such thing as a human being anymore.

All things are possible but I don't think they would erradicate humans. After all, they would need servants & labour.