Hawking, one of the smartest people in the world, why has his remarks always been scolded in recent years?

Hawking, 1959, 17 years old, enrolled in Oxford University College to study natural science. It took him very little time to get a first-class honorary degree, and then he transferred to Cambridge University to study cosmology. But at the age of 1963 and 2 1 year, he was unfortunately diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, that is, motor neurocytopathy. But he has made many scientific achievements at that time, and he can be called one of the smartest people in the world!

Hawking suffers from an unusual early-onset and slow-onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as gradual freezing. For decades, due to this disease, his body was slowly paralyzed. The disease began in Hawking's last year at Oxford University. At this time, he found his movements more and more clumsy, often wrestling for no reason, and rowing became more and more difficult. Once, he fell down the stairs and landed on his head first, causing a slight temporary amnesia. At Cambridge University, the situation got worse, and his speech was a little vague. Hawking's parents also noticed his health problems and took him to see an expert. At the age of 2 1, the doctor diagnosed him with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and he had only two years to live. However, two years later, he is still alive. Strangely, his illness gradually slowed down. There is no denying that Hawking is one of the greatest scientists in the world today, and his most famous theory is "black hole". In addition, he made many predictions, for example, in 2032, the earth will enter the ice age, the world will get cold, and human beings must leave the earth in 2060.

At present, we don't know whether these predictions will happen, but we can only use time to verify them like 20 12 waiting for the end of the world. However, we also found that in addition to astrophysics, Hawking also showed great activity in the field of artificial intelligence, which has risen in recent years.

Like Tesla CEO elon musk, Hawking is also a supporter of the "robot threat theory". Like predicting celestial bodies, he also expressed his views on the future development of artificial intelligence:

20 17 In May, Hawking delivered a speech on "Let artificial intelligence benefit human beings and their homes" through GMIC, saying that the rise of artificial intelligence may be the end of human civilization.

2065438+In March 2007, Hawking said that human beings must establish an effective mechanism to identify threats as soon as possible and prevent the threats brought by new technologies (artificial intelligence) from rising further.

From 20 16 to 12, Hawking wrote in the column of the British newspaper The Guardian: Factory automation has made many traditional manufacturing workers unemployed, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to spread the unemployment tide to the middle class, leaving only care, creation and supervision for mankind;

In 20 14, Hawking said in an interview with BBC that artificial intelligence would lead to human extinction;

In addition, several scientists, entrepreneurs and investors related to artificial intelligence, including Hawking and Musk, jointly issued an open letter on 20 15, warning people to pay more attention to the safety and social benefits of artificial intelligence.

Some of Hawking's remarks have come true, which is also an urgent problem to be solved at present. For example, human work is replaced by robots.

But most people don't agree with his negative views, because these so-called concerns are difficult to realize at present. After all, the development of artificial intelligence is still in its infancy. In addition, it is not easy to have the unique characteristics of thought, emotion and other creatures only by relying on artificial intelligence of artificial neural network.

On the other hand, in the eyes of most people, Hawking's remarks are "obstacles" to the innovation and development of artificial intelligence. Under the current trend of the intelligent age, the research and development of artificial intelligence has become a foregone conclusion. Under this general trend, Hawking, who holds a negative attitude towards artificial intelligence and hinders its development, is naturally criticized by people. Coupled with his alarmist predictions in the field of astrophysics, this "criticism" has intensified invisibly.

In fact, the Hawking we came into contact with was a Hawking who was packaged as a god who kept pace with Einstein. For example, it implies that Hawking is the reincarnation of Galileo, and "the day when Hawking was born is the anniversary of Galileo's death". When introducing Hawking, there is always such a sentence: "He has become the most famous scientific thinker and the most outstanding theoretical physicist in the world since Einstein. It can be said that all mankind depends on this wheelchair giant who likes to look up at the stars. . . "The Hawking we came into contact with is an outspoken Hawking. For example, he often expresses his "opinions" on some sci-fi themes (in fact, most of them are said by the business team). He said that there are alien life almost everywhere in the universe. Most of them are microorganisms and simple life forms, but a few have higher wisdom than humans. " Jupiter may have an alien creature that feeds on lightning. "He thinks that contact with this alien creature will have a devastating impact on human beings and suggests that human beings should not search hard. "One day, we may receive a signal from such a planet, but we should be vigilant when answering. Meeting advanced civilization may be like meeting Columbus in America. The result is not so good. " Alien life may be "greedy predators roaming the universe, looking for plunderable resources and conquerable colonial planets." "If advanced aliens visit the earth, just like the Italian navigator Columbus landed in America for the first time, it will eventually bring disaster to the local people." He also said that in another 30 years, human beings will emigrate to other planets. "If people don't emigrate to space, they will die because of overpopulation and climate change. It's only a matter of time. "

Bian Xiao believes that Hawking is always scolded by some people because Hawking is over-mythologized and packaged by the business team, and the over-worship of Hawking fans is also a reason why Hawking's image is damaged. Hawking's admirers always respond maliciously to Hawking's questions, and everyone has rebellious psychology. In fact, science has idols, but science does not need saints. Hawking is an idol of the scientific community, but Hawking is not a saint. In addition, although Hawking's free will on some unexplained topics is the intention of his business team, ordinary people don't know it, so they think Hawking is a freak who is full of nonsense and attracts attention by hype. In fact, most of these remarks are not Hawking's original intention. Hawking is very disgusted with the hype of his business team. But as a person who has no self-care ability, what can he do?

When this person has been deified to a certain extent, there is no way to make a subjective evaluation, because no matter what he does, we can only look at it dialectically.

In any case, as an old man who has struggled with the disease for decades and made popular science a household name, we should give him due respect.

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