The Ennui Of The Intelligent Machine Analysis

Nicholas Carr, a well renowned author, wrote an article titled “The Ennui of the Intelligent Machine,” discussing the development of artificial intelligence. Carr starts by quoting one of David Byrne, scottish-born american musician, songs “Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.” Carr goes on to counter the lyrics stated by asking the question, if heaven is a place where nothing happens, those that mean the hell the complete opposite of heaven is a place where it is eventful? Carr later states that if this is true then we are living in hell on earth. Then Carr goes on to talk about an article he read talking about how Google engineers have found a way to put computer power into computer learning, creating neutral networks that can learn without human assistance. The computer programs decide which data structures they work on rather than humans deciding for them. Carr wraps up the article stating that when the time comes that computers get bored of doing work assigned is when we know that …show more content…
Musk also talks about how we are innovating at a crazy rate that is too fast for anyone to keep up. The potential danger of artificial intelligence is that what computers are going to do with us when they become more intelligent. For Example if we tell the artificial intelligence system to make everyone in the world happy, instead of trying to please everyone 's needs it might think that it will be easier just to kill everyone because that way it will have less people to please. That 's an example of why we can control artificial intelligence, it will always be evolving until it becomes better than the humans and it would have no reason to keep us around anymore. Elon Musk is gives similar example by stating that if artificial intelligence see that humans are no longer useful, it can easily enslave humankind without even thinking about