“The end of the human race”

The physicist, who died in 2018, left a written prediction about what artificial intelligence might mean when it took its first steps years ago.

Months after his death, the book appeared Short answers to big questions Which dealt with various issues of technological progress and the field of scientific innovation.

In its pages, a reflection of artificial intelligence gives a lot of talk now that text, image or video generators using learned parameters are very popular.

“Potentially the worst mistake ever.”

Even the author of “A Brief History of Time”, who devoted his whole life to answering the great mysteries of science, said: “It could wipe out the human race.”

He added in the aforementioned post after his death: “We could face an explosion of intelligence that will eventually result in machines whose intelligence exceeds ours more than our intelligence exceeds the intelligence of snails.”

«It is tempting to dismiss the idea of ​​highly intelligent machines. Just science fiction, but that would be a mistake, probably the worst mistake of all,” Hawking explained, about the danger involved in not taking seriously the revolution involved in artificial intelligence.

The disruption of this technology is already affecting various areas of the world of work, from art to journalism, including the development of work in Big companies like IBMwhich recently proposed the option of drastically reducing its administrative staff given the potential for artificial intelligence and automation technologies to carry out this type of task.