Artificial Intelligence- The Future
Artificial Intelligence is a buzzword that we have been hearing in recent times. AI-based electronic devices, AI-powered software, and AI-crafted solutions are all that are making hype in the technological market.
But what actually is Artificial Intelligence? Who and how this concept was coined?
Artificial Intelligence as its name defines is a core branch of computer science that is associated with the creation of computer devices having humans like intelligence. Though sometimes it is taken into the misconception that Machine Learning is similar to Artificial Intelligence, but the ultimate level of Machine learning is Artificial Intelligence. It is the same as how we, humans process and understand our intelligence and adapt to the environment, the same way devices are programmed such that they self-understand the situation and acts upon it. They are capable of understanding and process natural language.
Though AI is making hype in recent time, this concept was coined back in 1955 by John McCarthy as he founded AI labs at MIT and Stanford, and created the computer language Lisp (for List Processing Language).
Why is it making so much hype now?
The way AI is heating the market is absolutely fine as big tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Apple are promoting every product linked with AI. Take it google assistant, Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, or Facebook reply bots. Though the AI is very infant to talk about but its impacts has already been seen in the world. Our lives have considerably been easier with the use of these infant levels of AI that, we are so much interested to talk more and more about this technology. The way it can learn by itself, the way it can work without fatigue, and understanding the consequences of the work has helped in productivity. It can help us in researching and exploring better than what traditional computer programs couldn’t do has made the idea of Artificial Intelligence so much hyped now.
How AI is being used by us in the present-day?
AI can serve humans in many ways, some of them are listed below:
Many programs like google Deep Mind has already been started that aim to make the world better using this same technology.
Various startups like IDX-DR, ADA Help, Nimblr AI use AI technology to diagnose the patients and give correct information about the illness.
AI-based selling and buying platforms like Amazon and Alibaba has considerably changed the traditional laws of demand and supply in the entire globe.
Voice assistant like Siri and Alexa are prime examples how people can we can use a machine that is intelligent enough to make our daily life easier by reminding about our important dates, appointments to turning the house light automatically.
Self-driving car is another prime example of how AI has made human life easier.
YouTube, Pandora, Netflix, and Spotify also use a small part of AI to understand our interests and recommends songs, videos, and shows based on the way we use these platforms.
In the same way, Google and Facebook use AI technology to track the behavior of the people and create targeted advertisement which is way better than traditional marketing ideas.
What are the other technical terms interconnected with AI?
Artificial Intelligence doesn’t come alone, many other technical concepts are interconnected with it. The various fields that make AI-complete are as follows:
Deep Learning
Machine learning
Data Mining
Logic Programming
Natural Language Processing
Neural Network
Knowledge Engineering
Semantic Network
Speech Recognition
Turing Test and many more.
Does it have only a plus point, if not how?
As we all know everything comes with a price. AI too has few back-points. Though AI is still in its infancy level, few negative effects can already be felt. Few are listed below:
The most questionable thing comes to mind when it is about computers that are designed to have the power to think themselves. What if they become too heavy and powerful that humans’ control over them doesn’t work anymore? What if machines rule over humans? What if the scenes of movies like Ex-Machina, Terminator and Pacific Rim became real?
The use of self-learning machines will surely create more unemployment problems because their use will not only save a lot of money but also increase productivity over humans.
Machines can easily lead to destruction if wrong hands get excess to them.
As we have already felt, humans have been too dependent on AI-based products that they have lost their own mental potential.
We all said, AI will have the potential to think themselves. But on contrary, they are actually just a collection of logical programming. So, they might never have that original creativity that we human has.
Conclusion!!
AI is a great scientific approach, a great human work, and a prime example of human creativity. It is still in the infancy level, so its optimum level is still a long way to grab in few years. We can only conceptualize what it can do. There are also people like Mark Zuckerberg who believes AI will have no harm for humanity, and there are people like Elon Musk who has already started feeling the harm that AI can have for entire human civilization. What will happen, if the robots will eventually keep humans under control with their self-creativity or just, they will be a piece of coding and do whatever coder makes them do is still too early to say. In a nutshell, AI can give both positives as well as negatives as it all depends on how we decide to drive them.
A quote on AI
“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year timeframe. 10 years at most.” —Elon Musk wrote in a comment on Edge.org
