comp.programming

Öö Tiib

1/23/2016 10:41:00 AM

On Friday, 22 January 2016 20:58:40 UTC+2, Ramine wrote:
> Hello...
>
>
> Quantum computing will change lives, society and the economy and a
> working system is expected to be developed by 2020 according to a
> leading figure in the world of quantum computing, who will talk tomorrow
> Jan. 21, 2016 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

How to weight if that change will be towards better or worse?

>
> Professor O'Brien said: "In less than ten years quantum computers will
> begin to outperform everyday computers, leading to breakthroughs in
> artificial intelligence, the discovery of new pharmaceuticals and beyond."
>
> Read more here:
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160120...

Yes, but where is AI used now? In military organizations to improve
their efficiency of killing other people, by likes of Google and
Facebook to spy on us and profile us and by pharmacy companies for
making various drugs to poison our food. Why it is good at all?

These may be are not good news at all.

"Developing technologies might lead - perhaps accidentally, and perhaps
very rapidly, once a certain point is reached - to direct,
extinction-level threats to our species. Such concerns have been
expressed about artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, and
nanotechnology, for example."

Read more: http://cser.org/about/ou...