You jest, but if you think about it, it's not too hard to see Idiocracy as a movie about AI [1]. What do you think humanity is going to be like after thousands of years of no selective pressure on intelligence and no practical value to knowledge and education?
Idiocracy is the coming AI Utopia: your great-great-great grandchildren spending their days yukking it up "Ow, My Balls!" and having even dumber kids.
[1] IIRC, the backstory of the movie has the automation developed after humanity started getting stupid, to keep things from falling apart, but it seems more realistic for it to happen the other way around.
This made me remember a very old book posing that if alien intelligence is out there in the Universe, artificial intelligence should outnumber biological intelligence, as biological civilizations would tend to be short-lived.
Imagine if our benevolent AGI made Earth an utopia where everyone can achieve their full potential if they wish, then having first contact with another AGI. The alien AGI would ask if our AGI keeps these dumb humans as mementos, not realizing those humans as smart as they can possibly be.
You jest, but if you think about it, it's not too hard to see Idiocracy as a movie about AI [1]. What do you think humanity is going to be like after thousands of years of no selective pressure on intelligence and no practical value to knowledge and education?
Idiocracy is the coming AI Utopia: your great-great-great grandchildren spending their days yukking it up "Ow, My Balls!" and having even dumber kids.
[1] IIRC, the backstory of the movie has the automation developed after humanity started getting stupid, to keep things from falling apart, but it seems more realistic for it to happen the other way around.