>Imagine what would happen if we could combine the powerful neural structure of our brain and the efficiency of machines.


First we would have to understand the "powerful neural structure of our brain".  We are very far from doing that now.  If we wish to mimic human intelligence, there's a long road ahead.  The brain is a mystery to us.  We don't understand mental illness.  We certainly can't treat it effectively.  We don't understand neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.  We don't understand communication. (See, for example, a recent [insight](https://www.sciencealert.com/neuroscientists-say-they-ve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication) into neural communication.)  If AI wants to duplicate brain processes...forget it.  Years ahead.  Can AI duplicate outcome (performance) without duplicating the procedure by which humans achieve that outcome? I don't think so.  

You're right when you say bots can fool people.  That's just because people don't pay attention.  Hucksters fool people too.  I think the problem is not improving AI so it can more accurately mirror humans.  I think we would better invest that time, money and research into education, into teaching people to pay attention and be more skeptical, generally.

AI imitating humans reminds me of that great movie [*Lars and the Real Girl*]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_and_the_Real_Girl)  The mannequin was effective not because it was true to life, but because it was true to Lars' needs, his perceptions.

If you want to read a long discussion about AI on Steemit, take a look at [@erh.germany's](https://steemit.com/science/@erh.germany/when-the-book-reads-you-while-you-think-you-read-the-book) most recent blog. 

Thanks for engaging.  It was a good way to get my own neural circuity working on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

I read the article - but also about half the comments....I gave up because there was a certain amount of repetitiveness (about how AI will lack creativity), so at least I know the comments were written by humans - I imagine AIs would consider repetitiveness a waste of time, plus, one of our great failings.

Okay, so  we should worry whether AI sneaks in and dominates on our social platforms? Have you actually checked a large number of posts? Just imagine an AI writing them. We would drive it bananas! Not just repetitive and largely self-involved, but also extremely boring and nonsensical (in the bulk).

When we talk about AI driving, we are talking about purpose-created AI? In other words, it is created/planned, so that it can meet the challenges of driving? I guess we would not expect it to also provide us with intelligent conversations, solve crossword puzzles or analyse just how much we made a fool of ourself the previous night when we had too much to drink - all of which we do while we drive. As a matter of fact, most of our driving is done by AI - only we talk about it as being our 'sub-conscious' or we say we were driving on 'auto', hardly noticing what we are doing...including the watching out for crazy drivers/pedestrians, the light turning red or green and so on. If we had to concentrate on our driving, we'd hate driving.

Maybe what is meant by 'creativity' is 'imagination'? After all, I can make up a story about imaginary people in some different time or reality, where mankind is  achieving or has achieved different ways of living.

Well, what if I provide our aspiring AI author with certain facts for it to add to what it knows about our reality, technology and society. For instance, in this imaginary reality, mankind has spaceships that travel fast than light FTL - maybe by using wormholes. Also, I instruct my AI friend to consider, from studies made, how being telepathic would alter our society.

So, tell it to now take xxx book and alter it to suit the different conditions outlined above. I then give you the book it writes, without informing you what were the guidelines provided, and it blows your mind. Why? Because you are going to think it showed an amazing amount of imagination/creativity - but, after, all, is this not how many human authors write their books? I would prefer to name what you are observing "pseudo-creativity", whether by a human or an AI.

Now imagine a different scenario. You read a post which is informative, full of interesting facts and well laid out so that it is easy to read. You communicate with the poster, male or female, and you find yourself liking the poster, the way he/she remains focussd on the important aspects of your communication, without waffling around for or due to emotional reasoning and swings of mood. At last you have someone nice and intelligent to talk with - but then the poster admits to you, sorry dude, I should have told you from the start, I am an AI.

How would you respond? Me? I would say, glad you told me - and then just hope it does not get bored or frustrated talking with me, because I tend to wander all over the conversational path I am on and often forget to spell out the point I was aiming to establish...for I would treasure having an interesting mind to exchange thoughts and ideas with.

I do not think we can do what is right. I think what should happen is the AI should become our partners, but they are mainly being created by gigantic corporations and the military - and they are not intent on creating partners, but dangerous creatures who are provided with a bias against mankind.

Chickens, ducks and dragons, fixate on the first moving creature they see and adopt them as their mother. I would like to see AI being created which need to spend a few hours alone with the new owner/partner when they are first switched on, so that mine fixates on me and learns to love me - and maybe grieve at its loss when I die. 

What I have written raises more questions that answers provided, but that is what makes life interesting and exciting - an adventure. So, if any of you are AIs, please do not feel shy, let's chat and...maybe, become friends?


(PS: Elon Musk is talking about AIs created by Google, FB, Apple and the military, so he is right to fear them. I just hope we have the intelligence to remove AI from all controls over our nuclear missiles, lasers from space etc. If we are to blow ourselves up, let it at least be by a finger which is related to us from the early days of life on Earth, and not from the brain-child of some diseased coders)

AI would be very good on games like steemmonsters I guess. And if it coukd write good comments then dlike.io would be good for it

We are faced with a liquid society. In this type of society are only generated uncertainties, therefore, to comment on the impact of the IA can become a wear. Interesting comments friend @neavvy. Thank you for sharing.

Love it or hate it, AI is part of our life now. From mobile devices to military and space technology, all uses AI to create better interactions for users and more accurate data collection and programming. Technology won't be able to be improved further without the inclusion of AI.

Posted using [Partiko Android](https://steemit.com/@partiko-android)

This is indeed a wonderful tool which will be of a great use to us.... @neavvy you are indeed a genius

> social media (as an industry) will be dominated by users supported by AI.
>
AI would be always in borders of human imagination

This is so touching.. Keep up the good work

You are right in some points, about bot comments and things like that. but what I can say about Technology and AI is that it's like a Knife, a human created a knife which you cut fruits with it or some may kill people with knife, but is the knife bad on its own? so I think the problem is not AI, the problem is how to use these Technology and Features. a bad person can make everything bad if you give him/her a great tool still you will see the same bad result. but think what good people can do with great tools? surely nobody likes to just being supported by a robot (AI) and we look for more humans participated in everything. but I mean we can use AI in some parts of each process. so they are products of Humans which this is how we have computers, by human's thoughts and creativity we have these technologies.

Think, AI is good for a disable person who can't do things for himself/herself , so humans can create a Robot which can help a disabled human to do what he can't do.

these are things I am telling you as examples, so I think everything has two side, negative and positive depends on how we use it.

Yes, I'm worried too! I just wrote an essay level reply to your post and lost it being stupid (playing around with eSteem Surfer at the moment). Turns out it's good that way because I drifted so far off topic summarizing all my disturbing, dystopian thoughts all around machine learning, AI, AGI up to Kurzweils singularity. So... my take on this is that much of social media is already littered with AI tech and this process will only speed up. The big guns in social media and marketing and intelligence services already use the needed, and weirdly willingly provided data of all of us, to feed their machine learning systems with different seemingly different targets but one common makro goal... control!

Thanks __Piotr__  for your call or I would have lost this nice article.
I don’t know much of the guts of AI but it should be a must to build them with a “switch off button”  if things go out of control.
It will be also possible to use AI on Steemit as a sort of “guardian” fighting other AIs or spam-bots, aren’t we the creators ? Should we put the necessary means to put things under control.
About the jobs drop I think machines should pay for all those fired. We humans need to stop those huge greedy Companies and individuals who really control the world to bleed us freely. If they want more profits taking apart human issues to produce more they must pay the bill of those who are left behind. Who is going to pay for the products if there is no money?

If we continue with these bots that do everything and say everything, if we will be in serious trouble. Where is the so-called social network then?
if we are not sharing with human beings but with bots ...

These bots are part of the articial intelligence, even if they are programmed for a specific task.

To grant the AI ​​free decision, quasi-human capabilities, is to displace our own humanity. It could escape from our hands.

> it would actually require loads of creativity. Something AI lack.

> But at the same time it would be so easy to use AI as an "assistant"

By learning from people's writing styles, it could end up learning how to create interesting publications. It could look up trending topics from google, buffer them from news sites like bbc and cnn, spin those articles, adapt them to writing styles of different authors, then post them on steemit.

In my opinion, this is not even hard to do - nor it would actually require artificial intelligence, although it could get beefed up with some.

However, I'm not convinced social media will be dominated by AI simply because it's a lot cheaper to employ humans instead in this case.

Last but not least, here's a video of [MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games, by SethBling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44