There is a rough agreement among many AI experts that the technological singularity ( the moment when machine intelligence supersedes human intelligence, and life as we know it changes un recognisably )- will take place soon after 2030.

1. WHEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEETS
HUMAN STUPIDITY
REF- MCKINSEY
Slide Composed and conceptualized
By Col Mukteshwar Prasad

3. INTRODUCTION
 The race to develop advanced AI is accelerating more rapidly as evident
from under mentioned work
 US Government's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative
Neurotechnology initative (BRAIN)
 Google’s deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) project, Brain;
 Facebook’s hiring neuroscientists to work on a brain-computer
interface
 Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a company that aims to download your mind
 Bryan Johnson’s Kernel, a company that wants to merge the human
brain with AI
 There is a rough agreement among many AI experts that the technological
singularity ( the moment when machine intelligence supersedes human
intelligence, and life as we know it changes un recognisably )- will take
place soon after 2030.

4. QUESTIONS
 Question is
 How should this machine intelligence be configured?
 Could it be based on the structure and function of the human brain?
 What makes us what we are ?
 Our learning,
 Our memories and
 Our Emotions
 Which part of our brain is difficult to be replicated?
 Common sense,
 Decisions,
 Intuitions,
 Free-will,
 Morality and
 Consciousness
 What is our brain made of?
 A brain is composed of approximately 100 billion neurons.
 Neurons are interconnected electrically and chemically by around 100
trillion connections
 They make us feel, imagine and think.
 Imagine the permutation and combination?

5. QUESTIONS
 Questions about singularity
 Should we be worried at the prospect of the singularity?
 Excited?
 Afraid?
 Surprised?
 Or lost in this scientific jargon?
 Or should we be more worried about merging artificially intelligent
machines (AIM) not with human intelligence, but with human
stupidity?

6. MICHELANGELO’S SECRET MESSAGE IN THE
SISTINE CHAPEL
 To answer these overwhelming questions, let’s start from the beginning: the
Book of Genesis, and the creation of Adam.
 On the ceiling of the Sistine chapel, Michelangelo has depicted God
wrapped in a shape that represents the brain.
 He wanted to suggest that God not only endowed Adam with life, but
also with intelligence.
 This shape mirrors the form of the human brain cortex: the site of our
intelligence, decision-making, conscious awareness and morality.
 Intriguingly, God’s arm reaches out from the brain’s frontal lobe -
specifically the cingulate gyrus, a brain region known to be implicated in
cognitive and emotional error monitoring and decision-making.
 With it, God is touching Adam’s hand.
 The simple message encoded in this painting conveys the merger
between the brain and HI.
 Since our ‘creation’, our cognitive and emotional behaviours have been
shaped by our brain, and undeniably these behaviours shape our brain.

9. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT MACHINE(AIM)
 Today, ‘Adam’ strives not only to create AIM, but also to endow these
machines with a human touch.
 The question is will he also endow AIM with ‘free-will’ - the ability to
make their own decisions?
 In this modern creation story, humans first created AIM and then
discovered that they could not compete or follow these machines’ wild
pace of capabilities.
 Energy and resources have thus been mobilised to accelerate the
creation of neuroprosthetics, brain-machine interfaces, a neural lace
surrounding the cortex (to augment HI) by linking it to AIM, and even
uploading minds to the cloud.
 Igniting a human-AIM revolution opened a Pandora’s box full of
ambiguous possibilities and difficulties.
 For example, imagine making a certain decision intuitively, when an AIM
knows or prefers an alternative answer – accordingly it sends
suppressive neural code to certain brain regions and changes your
brain’s decision.
 Who is in charge now?
 Designing and implementing AIM capable of communicating or
merging with human intelligence demands knowledge about the
human brain.
 Last decades have witnessed a plethora of neuroscience studies
investigating the brain’s functional and anatomical regions, hubs,
nodes and networks.

10. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT MACHINE(AIM)
 fMRI and EEG are the building blocks on which visionaries and
scientists are building their ideas about merging humans and AIM.
 The singularity movement is striving to interface the digital world with
the human brain for the purpose of
 Augmenting or repairing human cognition and emotions, and
 Potentially human longevity.
 Augmented human intelligence is full of both promises and pitfalls.
 It suggests the possibility that
 We can turn short-term memories into stronger long-term memories;
 Erase traumatic memories, or make them weaker;
 Inhibit unwanted thoughts;
 Improve our decision-making and enhance both deep learning and
reinforcement learning.
 However, our knowledge about these brain functions and their anatomical
structures is still under investigation - and because of the possible limitations
of neuroimaging studie and technology, the results we have may be full of
false positives.
 Neuroimaging neuroscience research has indeed made giant leaps
towards providing a live stream of our brain activity - but nevertheless,
our journey into the depths of the human brain and mind remains long
and mysterious.

11. DILEMA AND CHALLENGES
 The dilemma of merging rational, tangible and mathematically
configured AIM with a human mind - which is, in contrast, irrational and
intangible both emotionally, socially and cognitively - is extremely
challenging.
 We are still far from fully scrutinising the inner workings of the human mind.
 And so before we can connect it to AIM, we should remain aware that the
bar to doing so is immensely high.
 Hopefully brain science fiction will soon become brain science facts -
and that the merger of humans with AIM will turn to be a merger with
human intelligence, and not human stupidity.
 Because a poorly created human-AIM merger has the potential to rapidly
escalate dangerous situations, with catastrophic conclusions.
 A poorly merged system that gets hacked, controlled or shut down
may comprise our morality, privacy or security.
 AIM are currently built without a capacity for self-modification;
humans, however, are created with this capacity: it is called
neuroplasticity.
 Imagine an intelligent machine (a warrior-robot, for example) having
access to human neuroplasticity.
 Now imagine a stupid, greedy and immoral human having access to
the power of a warrior-robot.
 Are you worried yet?

12. CONCLUSION
 Notwithstanding the scale and pace of neurotechnology, the merger of
human intelligence with AIM is still in its infancy - albeit an infant that we are
vigorously feeding, both intellectually and financially, in order to bring it to
maturity as soon as possible.
 While feeding this infant, we should not forget that humans are
fiendishly complex and unpredictable.
 Human evolution was ignited by an uneven process of natural
selection, based itself on greed and fear. Imagine merging these
qualities with AIM.
 What would be the result?
 Brain hacking, loss of free-will, cognitive thoughts becoming
dependent on AIM, fewer self-generated thoughts… Maybe this is
the natural course of evolution for humans - or maybe we need to
merge with super-intelligent machines if we are to become super
humans.