{"id":344464,"date":"2018-01-19T04:21:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T03:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-20-years-everyone-will-have-a-robot-second-self\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T04:21:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T03:21:20","slug":"in-20-years-everyone-will-have-a-robot-second-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-20-years-everyone-will-have-a-robot-second-self\/","title":{"rendered":"In 20 Years, Everyone Will Have a Robot \u201cSecond Self\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Alter ego will know \u201ceverything about you\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>January 18, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.infowars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/180118robot1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><strong>Microsoft executive Harry Shum confidently predicts that in 20 years everyone will have an artificially intelligent robot \u201calter-ego\u201d that will know everything about them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Shum, who is Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence &amp; Research at Microsoft,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/future-of-artificial-intelligence-microsoft-brad-smith-harry-shum-2018-1?r=US&amp;IR=T\">told Business Insider<\/a>\u00a0that artificial intelligence will become more integrated in our daily lives as it becomes more sophisticated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Asked, \u201cWhat can someone expect 20 years from now in terms of a daily experience with AI?\u201d Shum made a somewhat dystopian prediction that everyone would have a robot assistant that in essence would be a carbon copy of themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cI think predicting the future is always hard, but one thing Brad and I firmly believe is that the ultimate form of AI is a digital assistant \u2014a digital assistant that really understands you, and with your permission knows everything about you,\u201d said Shum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cInternally we use the words \u201calter ego\u201d \u2014 really a second self. I think that a lot of AI capabilities will be developed in 20 years. There\u2019s already so much progress with reading and writing, and things like guiding people through solving math equations, and AI will be able to help us do a lot more,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yMn_HOW0SRc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Current virtual assistants like Amazon Alexa have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4092772\/Shhh-washing-machine-overhear-you.html\">raised privacy concerns<\/a>\u00a0amidst fears that they could be recording people\u2019s conversations, but the idea of an AI assistant that functions as a kind of clone of its owner is on another level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Experts like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have warned that artificial intelligence could advance to a stage where it is capable of redesigning itself, leading to the extinction of humanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Back in August, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/08\/11\/elon-musk-issues-a-stark-warning-about-a-i-calls-it-a-bigger-threat-than-north-korea.html\">Musk tweeted<\/a> there was \u201cvastly\u201d more risk in the development of AI than the risk posed by North Korea, alongside an image that read, \u201cIn&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/microsoft-exec-in-20-years-everyone-will-have-a-robot-second-self.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alter ego will know \u201ceverything about you\u201d Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comJanuary 18, 2018 Microsoft executive Harry Shum confidently predicts that in 20 years everyone will have an artificially intelligent robot \u201calter-ego\u201d that will know everything about them. Shum, who is Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence &amp; Research at Microsoft,\u00a0told Business Insider\u00a0that artificial intelligence will become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}