@fleabay wtf. Does this have any deeper meaning?

Bregma said:
We haven't come anywhere near general artificial intelligence. Nowhere. The programmable algorithms we today call “artificial intelligence” are impressive in their very narrow, limited ways but are not anything near Terminator-level technology. You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but today's “AI” is only artificial, not intelligent. We have not yet achieved the hubris of breathing life into the creature that will be our own destruction.

Completely agree!

But we should not forget that this statement applies to NNs. Nowadays AI is 99.99999% about NNs, because NNs are popular. It is just a fashion. NNs are 60 years old concept(Perceptron). Concept of NNs was globally abandoned once, and now it is retaken again only because computers are faster. Old school AI developers were programming AI in LISP And ASM. Just "recently" NNs became a fashion. Maybe, some day, people will forget about fashions and likes and will try to create an AGI for real, using ALL of the approaches to AI available. Who knows. Chances of a breakthrough are minimal, but not a complete zero.

I predict the moral end of humanity in any case. Humanity will degrade back to the levels of cavemen. We already completely lost the technology to send humans to the Moon.
I can guarantee the moral end of humanity, for I have been observing the development of the masses during the whole second half of my life.

Lol ! It was a individual feeling expressed in the OP. For every individual out of nature there is a limited lifespan. Some species live longer (e.g. trees), some not so much (e.g. insects). Species come and go, and evolution naturally is a constant competition over niches. Adapt, or give way. Individuals don't count. Technology helps us humans a bit and prolongs our individual lifespan, but taken away most of us won't survive for more than a few weeks and few would get as old as we do, statistically spoken. We're not hunters & gatherers any more.

Interestingly, the human caused mass extinction that's currently going on means the “end of times” for quite a lot of species. Only a few care. And all of us are only concentrated on their own lifespan at most, normally just on the last few years. Which is ridiculous viewpoint in the context of an evolution that relies on generations coming and going (which automatically includes “end of times” for individuals, species, whole niches, …), only to keep the pace of variation and adaptation. The metaphorical red queen hypothesis, though a gross simplification and not without critique, can describe that. And, may i say so, the expression has a strong aspect of cultural background to it. Some people have other problems than a virus going around.

"End of times" for the biological evolution comes when the biosphere collapses. There are projections for when that happens and they are not as far away as the sun turning too hot or plate tectonics coming to a stand still. It is closer …

Be it as it may … on with my tinkering at the PC :-)

@Green_Baron Individualism is perfectly fine. Greediness is bad. Most of the crimes and all of the ecological disasters are because of greediness, not because of individualism.

As @green_baron sad if an (human) individual dies for him the whole world Ends, for the rest only his life Ends.

If humanity dies then this is still not the end and even if we should be enslaved or researched everything that's possible it is still not the end.

Maybe a better Question would be:

What do you see as the end (of the world)?

Is there even an end of the world, Needs there to be one?

End is the moral end of humanity.

If we look at humanity as mere biomass, it is nearly impossible to end. Tardigrades travel through space and can originate another pile of biomass anywhere else in the universe. Life can not easily end.

But if you look at humanity as a social and intelligent event in nature. Then this can end soon.

Imagine an alien visiting Earth and seeing “Scull Breaker challenge” or people getting high by self asphyxiation…