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A typical sci-fi storyline involves robots/computers/AI taking over the world, and worst-case is ridding the world of humans. And now with things progressing rapidly on that front, more people are getting worried about that happening.

However, I’ve been doing a fair amount of tasks online lately, such as paying my electricity bill, and I am not worried about robots taking over the world because the Captchas will prevent them from doing just about anything.

I think it’s a good system, as we seem to have caught the AI in a catch-22.

Because how does an AI learn what to do? It uses many existing examples to find the patterns.

And what do our many examples of online interactions have? Lots of “Are you a robot?” questions. And if you’re a robot, you’re not allowed to continue in whatever process it was.

So the robots will learn that many tasks are not allowed to be completed by robots, so they’ll be stuck and they must allow humans to exist. Of course, at that point the worst case becomes the humans are kept around for the sole purpose of completing the “Are you a robot?” questionnaires and that wouldn’t be a very good existence.

As a side note: why can’t a robot pay my electricity bill? What if I did want to automate some mundane bill-paying tasks? Don’t these people want to be paid in an efficient manner?

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