CMV:Artificial Intelligence will at the very best make mankind unimportant

You are massively overestimating how effective AI is currently. They are often very good at single specific tasks but nobody is anywhere close to creating something that is conscious or thinking. You are massively overestimating how good the software is driving these machines you are talking about. I can guarantee you the software is truly dreadful, it will be crashing all the time and require the constant attention by teams of people to get it to working to even do the most basic of tasks. The videos and reports you see are the one time it actually worked. A computer that can beat the World chess champion impressive, but it will never do anything outside of that realm ever.

The hardware is also a huge way off creating something that is anywhere close to the agility, flexibility and efficiency of animals. There has to be massive technological advancements to overcome these issues. Getting a robot to do a back flip is impressive, but that same robot isn't going to be using tools anytime soon.

Having a fear that robots are going to create a human slave is not looking objectively at what machines are capable of here and now.

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