[jfaucett]

> AI is kind of vague and catch-all these days,

Agree. Basically all current progress in "AI" should really just be called statistics and I think there would be much less confusion. If you say statistics meets Big Data and faster computers then you basically have all current progress. Real "AI" i.e. thinking machines which are behaviourally intelligent without resorting to cheap tricks has made very limited progress.

We might be able to fool ourselves into thinking a machine can think. For example, given a naive Bayes classifier for all X situations there is a probability that a real person responds with Y so therefore the machine responds with Y and then a human observing this system perceives the system to "be intelligent". But for me this is just statistics and nothing more, there is no abstract thought or intelligence going on within that machine system - at least as it relates to all other living creatures on the planet.

[squozzer]

I am not so worried about AI exterminating us - because they depend on electricity and they would probably like to keep meatbags around for reboots and such - unless they figure out how to train other primates to replace us.

[jononor]

Yes, they will treat us like we treat other animals. Maybe we get to be like pet cats, more likely I think is a horse at the plow.

As long as we are useful we get to live to perform this duty. When no longer we'll become sausage.