Microsoft AI Chief Says AI Is ‘A New Kind Of Digital Species’

Mustafa Suleyman, the Artificial Intelligence Chief at Microsoft, claimed in a recent TED talk that AI is comparable to a new kind of creation as far back as the creation of all living things on Earth, referring to it as creating “a new kind of digital species.”

Suleyman began has speech by recounting trying to describe what it is to his 6-year-old inquiring as to what it is, and appropriated its capabilities to that of an actual living person. In an attempt to explain the significance of what AI is, the Microsoft AI Chief said in his remarks that he hoped to provide a very palatable explanation that even a small child could grasp.

I think AI should best be understood as something like a new digital species. Now, don’t take this too literally, but I predict that we’ll come to see them as digital companions, new partners in the journeys of all our lives.

Whether you think we’re on a 10-, 20- or 30-year path here, this is, in my view, the most accurate and most fundamentally honest way of describing what’s actually coming. And above all, it enables everybody to prepare for and shape what comes next.

[…] But let’s be clear. There is no path to progress where we leave technology behind. The prize for all of civilization is immense.

Suleyman explained

Suleyman followed-up by claiming that this innovation is the next step in human evolution, saying “life on Earth stretches back billions of years,” and over the course of time, evolution and adaptation, it has culminated in the greatest and most important creation since life began.

“In this revolution, creation has exploded like never before. And now a new wave is upon us. Artificial intelligence. These waves of history are clearly speeding up, as each one is amplified and accelerated by the last. And if you look back, it’s clear that we are in the fastest and most consequential wave ever,” he argued.

Since the beginning of life on Earth, we’ve been evolving, changing and then creating everything around us in our human world today. And AI isn’t something outside of this story. In fact, it’s the very opposite. It’s the whole of everything that we have created, distilled down into something that we can all interact with and benefit from. It’s a reflection of humanity across time, and in this sense, it isn’t a new species at all. This is where the metaphors end.

He went on to explain how AI will transform everything and become a common, integral part of everyday living. “Everything will soon be represented by a conversational interface,” he said. “Or, to put it another way, a personal AI. And these AIs will be infinitely knowledgeable, and soon they’ll be factually accurate and reliable. They’ll have near-perfect IQ. They’ll also have exceptional EQ. They’ll be kind, supportive, empathetic,” he noted.

Every town, building and object will be represented by a unique interactive persona. And these won’t just be mechanistic assistants. They’ll be companions, confidants, colleagues, friends and partners, as varied and unique as we all are. At this point, AIs will convincingly imitate humans at most tasks. And we’ll feel this at the most intimate of scales.

They’ll interact with us and, of course, with each other. They’ll speak every language, take in every pattern of sensor data, sights, sounds, streams and streams of information, far surpassing what any one of us could consume in a thousand lifetimes.

He said

Later in his talk, he articulated that we will need “to be able to grapple with what’s coming,” he said, saying “AI is itself an infinite inventor.”

Moreover, near the end of his presentation, he said “AI is us. It’s all of us.”

During a brief Q&A session, an audience member queried about the potential threat that AI, unlike babies that develop in nine months, AI is created in second and can create copies of itself in seconds, which therefore could create an epidemic, saying the “unintended consequences seems pretty immense.” In response, Suleyman claims “I think there’s no evidence to suggest that.”

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

As I have pointed out many times before, this modern push to create AI stems from wanting to play God, and make their own creations. You see it time and time again in their language, just as you read just now. They want to be their own little god and create all-knowing gods to save them from all their problems, and ultimately create this new omniscient God.

Isaiah 44:9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. [10] Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? [17] And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. [18] They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

“There is no new thing under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9), and all this is is idol making but with a facelift and advancement; but it’s still all fake and artificial. It can’t save, it can’t deliver, it’s not all-knowing, it’s not like you or I, and you’re going to die regardless – there is no preserving your memories and transferring your consciousness in AI machine somewhere, which is the fever dream of these AI idol makers, who “worship and serve the creature more than the Creator” (Romans 1:25).

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Isaiah 48:3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. [4] Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; [5] I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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