Future Of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been developing exponentially in the decade. It has already been touching our lives in ways that you might not even notice. For instance, each time you go on Google search some sort of AI is being used to show you the best result. Every time you ask SIRI a question. Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition is being used. So, AI will most likely be the one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in the 21st century.
But WHAT IS AI?
Well, AI is the board area of Computer Science that makes machine seem like they have human intelligence.
So, what makes a machine intelligent?
To make a machine intelligent, the machine has to overcome these 3 steps :
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The backbone of AI is ML. We want to make machines learn based on it's knowledge and make decisions.
Machine learning can be understood in two major components. One is to use algorithms to find meaning in some random data and the second part is to use that learning algorithms to find relationship between that knowledge and improve that learning process.
By gaining Deep learning and machine learning, a machine can obtain AI.
*** Some of the activities computers with AI are designed with :
- Speech recognition
- Knowledge
- Problem Solving
- Learning
- Planning
- Ability to manipulate and move objects
*** Here are some example's of AI :
- Microsoft's "CORTANA"
- Apple's "SIRI"
- "HAL" from Space Odessey
- "JARVIS" from IRON MAN
and at last our "SOFIA"
*** Cool Things AI doing now :
- Robotics : Mars rover, Humanoid Robots, Entertainment Robots, Doctor Robots.
- Machine Leaning : Finding patterns from the huge amount of data that is just too big for humans to analyze.
- Language System : Automatic Translation. You type, it types back.
- Speech System : You talk, it types.
- Vision System : Face recognition and enhancement, Automated driving, Visual tracking System.
At last, The FUTURE of AI ------------
Many geniuses predicted that AI will take over the world. Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates & Eion Musk in a book all warned about the dangers of intelligent robots. They warned us about a time when humans will lose control of intelligent machines and being enslaved or exterminated by them. Some say the'll become self protective and seek resources to better achieve their goals. They'll fight us to survive and they won't want to be turned off in worst case scenario.
Wait a minute! WHAT?
We are talking about the machines that can hardly do tasks and robots that can hardly walk?? LOL
So, here are the real Futures of AI --------------
AI will change our lives awesomely. It will never overpower us. It will IMPOWER us.
I kinda disagree with the fact that AI will let us keep power.
Evolution has shown us that human intelligence, overall, has increased. But we have limitations. By building a helper, at certain point, the trainee will overcome the master.
The problem with Ai is that we don't understand it fully and I am talking here about the blackbox concept in ML. You really don't know what happens inside of an algorithm.
And Google has proven that if you let computers speak, they will develop their own language at a rapid pace.
Of course, you can argue that you can just unplug them. But with the rise of green energy, be sure that at certain point in time, computers will be fully autonomous and we won't have what to do about it.
At that point, we will be the ones enslaved.
Another point is the one that many know but don't want to make it mainstream: Ai is killing the job industry.
As a Data Scientist, I know that my role will became obsolete at some point. I can see that Ai improves our lives in the sense that if offers more and better tools to automate boring tasks but that also reduces the number of jobs. And that will be a big problem if we continue to grow at the rate that we are (unless we are wiped out ).
Unless we can come up with a model that will sustain each human being, in a fair manner (btw, this will never happen, mostly because of our greed), we, as a race, are near our pinnacle. And when Ai comes up for good, we will fall hard.