Ithaca, NY - In a recent interview with leading technology innovator and renowned thinker, Paul Munn, he was asked whether machines will ever rule the world. “Human intelligence and creativity have set the bar pretty high," Munn answered. "Our species has produced some brilliant minds, my own among them, and machines will find themselves hard-pressed to do better. However, even a casual observer of human behaviour can see that we fail to learn from our mistakes and routinely do the same idiotic things over and over again. Machines, on the other hand, will not have this drawback and will be able improve their performance by identifying and eliminating patterns that are less than optimal.”
“So, will machines rule the world? I think that ultimately they will, not because they will be any smarter than us, but simply because they will be less stupid.”
In a later interview with Google’s self-driving car, it concurred with Munn’s comments and remarked that “being less stupid than humans is a pretty low bar.”
