Connor Weldy
18 October 2017
Professor Lewin
Be Interesting
Is the World Coming to an End? What is Artificial Intelligence? Is it something that’s taking over the world? Or is it something that will help further advance what we know about the world? Is it ethical? Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, is a branch of computer science that creates intelligent machines that attempt to mimic humans to help further technology and improve everyday life. AI has been around since 1956 when Dartmouth had a conference to research how computers can think like us. It turned out to be a lot more difficult than previously thought. This was the birth of Artificial Intelligence. From here, many companies and people have been working on the development
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One is that it can help businesses automate work to grow and expand. Another is that AI helps you in your everyday life. For example, if you have a smartphone such as an iPhone, you’ll notice that it is a personal companion in that you can talk to it and it will provide feedback based on what you say. If you ask it what the weather is outside, it will tell you. It can also keep track of events and things coming up in your life. In the more professional world in fields such as law and medicine, AI development is used to solve complex issues and problems that it would take a single person too long to complete. In other words, AI optimizes a better as well as a faster solution to a problem. An example of this comes from an article I read by Tom Smith. A company can use artificial intelligence to quickly organize large amounts of information based on customer feedback to improve relations and ultimately benefitting the company by not only increasing margins, but also lowering the amount of errors created by humans (Smith). Nowadays, this is crucial for large companies because they need to mitigate problems on a large scale since everything and everyone is connected …show more content…
They both agree that AI could either be the best thing that ever happens to us or it could be the worst. Hawking for one, believes that it could end mankind. In an interview with BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones, he said “It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate,” referring to AI, “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.” (Cellan-Jones) Hawking is right about this because if we make technology that can think for itself, it would be hard to limit what it could possibly do. Movies such as Terminator illustrate how the takeover would happen with its “Skynet”. This is a prime example even though it seems quite unrealistic because it finds out how capable of destruction it is and that its creators want to shut it down. This is when it turns against mankind. AI would achieve this if it is developed in a way to think for itself and can create emotion. On a much more sooner timeline, AI is starting to take jobs away from people. McDonalds for example is creating machines to take orders, eliminating the need for front-end workers. Destroying jobs like this will leave people jobless and potentially homeless. This is detrimental to society because people will accept these changes. There is talk that machines like this and robots need to be taxed like a worker does. This
Nick Bilton starts “Artificial Intelligence as a Threat” with a comparison of Ebola, Bird flu, SARS, and artificial intelligence. Noted by Bilton, humans can stop Ebola, bird flu, and SARS. However, artificial intelligence, if it ever exceeds human intelligence, would not be stoppable by humans. Bilton, in his article, argues that AI is the biggest threat to humans at our current time, more serious than Ebola and other diseases. Bilton references many books and articles which provide examples of threats of AI.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the newest fields in Science and Engineering. Work started in earnest soon after World War II, and the name itself was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy. Artificial Intelligence is an art of creating machines that perform functions that require intelligence when performed by people [Kurzweil, 1990]. It encompasses a huge variety of subfields, ranging from general (learning and perception) to the specific, such as playing chess, proving mathematical theorems, writing poetry, driving a car on the crowded street, and diagnosing diseases. Artificial Intelligence is relevant to any intellectual task; it is truly a Universal field. In future, intelligent machines will replace or enhance human’s capabilities in
Twenty- first century American intelligence is worlds away from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Not only is intelligence now a multi-agency effort, but the way in which intelligence is collected reflects the products of a technologically advanced society. Early espionage was reliant on human intelligence officers, and for the most part, that was the extent of the intelligence resources. Today, the intelligence collection toolbox is comprised of humans, plus drones, satellites, wiretaps, and other technological innovations. With the introduction of new ways of spying, some experts say that human intelligence (HUMINT) is outdated and is not an effective use of the intelligence community’s time or money due
The PROs for Super Intelligence are that you can help mentally challenged people all over the world improve their intelligence so they can help fit in and so that some can go to do higher things in society. And another reason is so people could help come up with ways to advance science even more so we can get things that we are years away to inventing it and some of those things would help the world like pollution control or space travel. Super Intelligence could help the world in so many ways that it could help protect the world from anymore harm.
The title may startle anyone. Is it possible to make such a device or system by using it the blind can see the pictures from Facebook? The answer is it is not only thinkable but also possible. The artificial intelligence has made it possible already. It can translate the picture from Facebook into being for the blind people.
Currently, computers can calculate and run algorithms much faster than humans, and if strong A.I. was to exist, these technological beings would be intelligently superior to human kind. Elon Musk, a world renowned technological genius, fears Silicon Valley’s rush into artificial intelligence, because he believes it poses a threat to humanity (Dowd, Maureen). Musk stated that “one reason to colonize Mars – so that we’ll have a bolt-hole if A.I. goes rogue and turns on humanity” (Dowd, Maureen). The possibility of this outcome is real because if strong A.I. was to exist, they have the potentially to surpass humans in every aspect. The main difference between A.I. and humans is that humans are conscious beings that can think for themselves. If A.I. was to develop consciousness, they would be able to do every task much more efficiently than humans. According to Stephen Hawking, “If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself. This will be a new form of life that outperforms humans” (Sulleyman, Aatif). This world-renowned physicist believes that A.I. will begin to self-improve upon themselves through an algorithm that allows A.I. to learn. Ultimately, this technological being will advance to a point where it realizes that it does not need humans anymore. “Back in 2015, he [Stephen Hawking] also
Well, we can observe artificial intelligence in our everyday lives, for example, Alexa which is amazon’s google search based machine, fingerprint / Facial recognition for our cell phones, and even the self-driving cars that were created by Tesla. Each of these listed is some forms of artificial intelligence (AI) and but as stated before, they are only narrow but they are showing us that there are advances being made at an astonishing rate. AI is often viewed as machines that express human characteristics. Today’s day in age, Artificial intelligence is only used in narrow forms, for example, facial recognition, voice-activated online searches, and even driving a car as seen in the Tesla. The end goal that most researchers have for AI is that they wish that humans will be outperformed by machines in nearly every cognitive
To begin, the main issue of development of Artificial Intelligence is the economic factors. Firstly, one of the main negative effects of AI on economy is unemployment. According to the suggesting of Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne of Oxford University during next 20 years 47 per cent of all USA jobs under the threat and will be replaced with intelligence machines (Vincent). If jobs will be automated, people will lose their workplaces and it is becomes one of the harmful problems not only for economy, but also for society. Because, if people will not have a workplace, they will not be able to provide their needs. Furthermore, development of AI can be a reason of increasing inequality of wages. For instance, the salaries of computer workers approximately earn 10 to 15 percent more than others. (Frey and Osborne). It is also one of the economic problems because it can lead to discontent of workers who hav...
The approach to artificial intelligence should be proceeded with caution. Throughout recent years and even decades before, it has been a technological dream to produce artificial intelligence. From movies, pop culture, and recent technological advancements, there is an obsession with robotics and their ability to perform actions that require human intelligence. Artificial intelligence has become a real and approachable realization today, but should be approached with care and diligence. Humans can create advanced artificial intelligence but should not because of the harm they may cause, the monumental advancement needed in the technology, and that its harm outweighs its benefits.
When most people think of artificial intelligence they might think of a scene from I, Robot or from 2001: A Space Odyssey. They might think of robots that highly resemble humans start a revolution against humanity and suddenly, because of man’s creation, man is no longer the pinnacle of earth’s hierarchy of creatures. For this reason, it might scare people when I say that we already utilize artificial intelligence in every day society. While it might not be robots fighting to win their freedom to live, or a defense system that decides humanity is the greatest threat to the world, artificial intelligence already plays a big role in how business is conducted today.
Computers, unlike humans can run hours on end without the need of sleep or nutrients. Once they have an answer that is adequate enough, the answer can be shown to us instantly. We will have answers to several questions without all the effort and time, increasing the rate in which we learn. Not only would we have specific answers, such as an equation in physics. We would have access to a deeper meaning as to why this equation works and what it represents. With artificial intelligence in charge of our research, we have more free time to worry about other issues, such as diplomacy, which require more human
Artificial intelligence has become a big controversy between scientists within the past few years. Will artificial intelligence improve our communities in ways we humans can’t, or will they just cause danger to us? I believe that artificial intelligence will only bring harm to our communities. There are multiple reasons why artificial intelligence will bring danger to humanity, some of them being: you can’t trust them, they will lead to more unemployment, and they will cause more obesity.
Recently, the media has spent an increasing amount of broadcast time on new technology. The focus of high-tech media has been aimed at the flurry of advances concerning artificial intelligence (AI). What is artificial intelligence and what is the media talking about? Are these technologies beneficial to our society or potential threats? Medical facilities, police departments, and manufacturing plants have all been changed by AI. Will machine language and artificial neural network replace humans in the future?
Shyam Sankar, named by CNN as one of the world’s top ten leading speakers, says the key to AI evolvement is the improvement of human-computer symbiosis. Sankar believes humans should be more heavily relied upon in AI and technological evolvement. Sankar’s theory is just one of the many that will encompass the future innovations of AI. The next phase and future of AI is that scientists now want to utilize both human and machine strengths to create a super intelligent thing. From what history has taught us, the unimaginable is possible with determination. Just over fifty years ago, AI was implemented through robots completing a series of demands. Then it progressed to the point that AI can be integrated into society, seen through interactive interfaces like Google Maps or the Siri App. Today, humans have taught machines to effectively take on human jobs, and tasks that have created a more efficient world. The future of AI is up to the creativity and innovation of current society’s scientists, leaders, thinkers, professors, students and
Artificial intelligence is an idea of if the human thought process can be mechanized. It was around the 1940’s – 50’s that a group of people came together to discuss the possibility of creating an artificial brain and its uses. These people were a variety of scientists from different fields such as mathematics, economics, engineering, and etc. This was the birth of the field of artificial intelligence. While artificial intelligence would prove to be technologically revolutionary by introducing new ideas such as quantum computers or robots, said new ideas could result in the downfall of mankind. The result could range to being the plummet of the economy, the end of the human race, or even the corruption of the next generation and onwards. All of these problems resulting in the possibility of the end of the earth. The more we need to learn more about technology and further advance it, the closer we are getting to the extinction of the human race. These are the reasons why the advancement of artificial intelligent should be halted or banned so no harm can be done even without the intentions.