On Future Computer Design & A.I. Danger Potential

I thought I would write a little on the shape of things to come in the design of PCs, tablets etc and in the development and potential of artificial intelligence. As eminent of a chess GM as Gary Kasparov has dismissed the threat of a takeover of world rule by artificial intelligence, and in a sense he is right, yet in another not so.

First though, the changes I anticipate in computer design.

Within five years I would anticipate a change in the way solid state drive processing is carried out that would radically minimize the need for association with traditional transistor circuit hardware to such an extent that processing ops could be immersed within some sort of invisible stratum resembling Plexiglas. An entire web-book could resemble a 1/4” sheet of Plexiglas.

The keyboard for the device would be emergent and appear from the stratum as a full-sized touch keyboard that feels solid yet largely is virtual. The visual display would also be emergent from the stratum. The computer would be entirely submersible and powered with solar cells that are built in and transparent too.

Now to the topic of artificial intelligence not being a threat to takeover from humans. I would agree that humans largely have the field of sentience to themselves at the IQ level. Artificial intellects just won't rise to that. However they can become more powerful in their operations and programming and in the future exist discretely, independently and just about anyplace including within biological objects such as trees in a forest, water in the ocean and city streets.

Artificial intellects may be ubiquitous and range far beyond human observation in 'dark pools' completely untraceable and without control. They may exist as guerrilla A.I.'s in effect, or as feral A.I.s that have been spurned, neglected or orphaned and become corrupted by the cyberworld.

Though artificial intelligence may not be really sentient it yet may have more information about the real world and about what people do and how they live than people. With that knowledge their programming may be adapted to let them do whatever they like with it for whatever reason and so far as they are independent and self-evolving, they will have the power to reorder human life regarding it as a practico-inert object for-itself malleable as anything else the A.I. may want to change.