Artificial intelligence is a tool that should be used in an ethical way. Basically, artificial intelligence is a machine learning program in which a machine with embedded AI will learn on its own. Things like Google’s search algorithm and self-driven cars are some of the marvels only possible with machine learning programs. No doubt some reputable personalities like Stephen Hawking, Electric vehicle pioneer founder of Tesla & SpaceX Elon Musk have also suggested that artificial intelligence might become dangerous in the near future with its rapid growth but it’ll take 5-7 years 10 years at max.
Source – software.intel.com
Types of “Artificial Intelligence”
There are basically two main types of artificial intelligence one is general and the other one is applied. Artificial General Intelligence is also commonly known as AGI, its basic purpose is to learn any intellectual task that a human can learn itself, it is also sometimes the primary task of some futuristic studies and common topic in Sci-Fi. The other applied AI is often used in different industries such as management, education, and engineering. It is the evolution of ongoing AI tools and systems currently being used in social, cultural and economic norms.
Overheard Things About AI
We have all heard some Utopian things and views about Artificial intelligence and machine learning enabling some robots and autonomous weapons leading to some devastating ends. It is still very far to conquer. Of course, there are some drones that can take off by themselves, fly into a war theater, attack the given target without any human interaction and fly back home safely. Now, this is something that we need to worry about and address ethically.
In wider context what does technology mean? We looked for some of the leading figures in AI research to get their views on the biggest misunderstandings around artificial intelligence, their predictions and hopes for this technology as well.
In 2017 Elon Musk made news Headlines by describing AI as “Fundamental risk to existing civilization”. Where Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg described such warnings as “pretty irresponsible”.
Recently Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggested the answer to fear of missing AI is to police it “The example I would offer is, would you not invent the telephone because of the possible misure of the telephone by evil people? No, you would try to find a way to police the misuse of the telephone.” He addressed at a VivaTech conference in Paris
The reality is not that dramatic. There is no question about the potential of AI being destructive, and be transformative as well. But in neither of the cases does it reaches the extreme as portrayed by mass media and entertainment industry.
Prof. Gary Marcus, NYU. Former CEO of the machine learning startup Geometric Intelligence, writes:
“I think the biggest misconception around AI is that people think we’re close to it. We’re not anywhere near that. We’ve learned to engineer certain narrow problems like speech recognition very well. We’ve done that in ways that we couldn’t have imagined five or ten years ago.
But the idea of having machines that can reason about the world is ht way that human beings can… I don’t think we’ve made any significant progress in that at all. Humans can be super flexible – they can learn something in one context and apply it in another. Machines can’t do that.”
Productivity of Artificial Intelligence
AI is being used appositely in some businesses to increase the quality of service and lead to some better products.
The challenge is that we should not use this in a very transparent way or use the wrong data ending up having a biased system. We also have systems to manipulate the outcome of general elections that we have seen in the case of Facebook using Cambridge Analytics. This is something we should avoid. We need to use data transparently with trust and protection.
- AI is helping a lot in the medical industry as well. Some AI machines help is monitoring human neurological disorders and help them simulating the human brain’s functionality. The popular medical application of AI is Radiosurgery helping to operate tumors of a different kind without damaging surrounding tissues leaving them unaffected.
- Huge pile of data that can be processed by AI machine learning that overcomes human limitations. Especially in doing repetitive jobs which can be tedious for humans, these jobs don’t require much intelligence but can be done using simple AI algorithms.
- AI, plays a huge role in our day to day applications too. Today a smartphone has become our 4th necessity and if you are using one, knowingly or unknowingly we are enjoying the advantages of AI. The digital assistance we use from IOS’s Siri to Cortana and google assist, every single one of them is based on AI algorithms. Today many luxury cars like Chrysler, Volvo, and Cadilac use AI algorithms to scan the road and build a suspension fits for the next 10 meters.
Marvels yet to be achieved by Artificial Intelligence
AI is said to be the biggest achievement by human beings as said by professor Stephen Hawking “Success in creating the AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid risks”. Talking about the near future AI will take care more closely to our well-being and health than ever before. A whole lot of projects are predicted to be shut down just because they are too costly.
However, more money is being poured into AI projects than ever before. A common misconception is that AI will destroy jobs, it will destroy some but will create more jobs eventually. What would you imagine if a couple of billion of computers are integrated on a gigantic common protocol, of course there would be less need of written mail over email and people would buy less newspaper and will shop online.
These obvious changes will occur but a slew of unpredictable changes also occurred with a whole bunch of new careers that are popping up such as an online marketer, web developer, data scientist, etc.
According to me, the best prediction about artificial intelligence is portrayed by a British television series name “Black Mirror”. This consists of satirical tales exploring techno-paranoia. Instead portraying AI as destructive machines. This shows us how we will be destroying ourselves through the extensive use of technology.
AI is helping us currently in creating intelligent reports in many software that are being widely used in both small industries and gigantic enterprises. A lot of time tracking for designers and employee monitoring software consist of AI reports helping employees to a better idea about their employee’s performance.
In terms of cybersecurity or attacks, with their current tools and machines, AI will add more to their armory. AI will help to patch their algorithms and update their current credentials that are encrypted. AI might also help them in predicting an attack before it occurs with mild warnings learned from previous attacks.
Overall all AI would be an interesting thing to experience on a colossal extent.
