For the breakthrough of artificial intelligence, many people are discussing chatGPT, there are two extreme views, one extreme view is that the breakthrough of artificial intelligence will now trigger the fourth industrial revolution. The other extreme view is that the current breakthrough is not a big breakthrough, it is still collecting information and organising it. The middle ground is considering how many people will be laid off as a result.

One side of the argument suggests that so-called artificial intelligence can produce annual output that is ten times the current GDP of each country. If it can, it's the Fourth Industrial Revolution, if it can't, it's not. The first three industrial revolutions were huge leaps in value. Even the third industrial revolution brought a whole lot of super tech giants and super energy sources like nuclear power. So the question is, does AI have the ability to match the leap that the internet + nuclear energy brought? In other words - is the GPT-based wave of AI a super engine of economic power?

The other view is that the probability is so great that AI is assumed by many to be an existing part of it, such as the voice-to-video simulations released by sora, such as openai's interactive chat. These are weak AI, humans so far haven't really figured out what it means to be conscious, all the definitions of consciousness don't make it clear where it comes from. They believe that it is only a matter of time before the rise of consciousness formed by AI leads to the formation of strong AI. The fruit fly has only 100,000 neurons. Whales have 20 billion neurons and humans have 100 billion neurons. Lower organisms obviously have far fewer neurons and fewer synapses than humans. It can be understood that the prerequisite for the birth of consciousness is a sufficient number of neuronal reactors, so that a qualitative change can occur from a quantitative change. After the formation of a sufficient number of reactive neurons that follow a specific topology of information exchange, consciousness will eventually be formed. The creativity of human beings in mathematics, physics, chemistry, medicine, materials and so on will eventually be broken through by artificial intelligence.

What happened in the first three industrial revolutions we already know very well, indeed some jobs disappeared, but also more jobs appeared and people are better off than before the industrial revolution. So AI as the fourth industrial revolution will do the same and there is no need to worry.

It took over 1,000 years to go from Archimedes in 2000 years to Newton. From Newton to Maxwell Einstein's breakthroughs took 200 years, and from Einstein's theory of relativity to computer breakthroughs took only a few decades. In my opinion, the speed of human technology is accelerating, not linear. The human world already has one foot in AI, and the other foot all the way in could be done in a very short time.

What are your thoughts on this and will AI bring about the fourth industrial revolution? Welcome to the discussion.

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Will Artificial Intelligence be the Fourth Industrial Revolution?