Today, artificial intelligence
has become more developed than it was before and more popular. Some people believe that AI is the best invention of mankind. AI represents very large opportunities, but there are those who do not think so.
Elon Musk said, "This will lead to third world war."
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Question:
1 What do you think about the AI?
2 What are advantages and
disadvantages to AI?
3. Do you agree with Elon Musk about AI?
Comments
Also it's important to mention that computer can not think. AI/ machine learning it's not magic, it's just math, nothing more. Computers are able to make some decisions while having earlier sets of decisions made by human ( good and bad decisions). So basically: computer can't create something totally new. Even if you find something about AI that creates music or paintings - it's not true (it doesn't "create" it).
Main advantages of AI is that it can be widely used, for example:
- Face recognition as a tool for chasing criminals.
- As a tool for medical doctors - AI may recognize some diseases.
- As it is very popular, it's very easy to find some resources to study about it. Learning new things is always good.
Main disadvantages is probably fact that a lot of people that have no idea about AI, talks about it or even works with it.
I do not agree with Elon Musk. In fact I don't like him. In my opinion he is created by media as a "real Iron Man". When it comes to technical knowledge, he is not so good. There is huge hype for Tesla and SpaceX, but still he is not a horse that I would put my bet on. When this all "Musk vs AI" thing was on, I talked to an one guy that is making PhD from AI, and he called Musk "total idiot".
And a few month ago I read one news about AI. And I found :
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-artificial-intelligence-ai-chatbot-new-language-research-openai-google-a7869706.html
From this post, I understood, that maybe AI it's not "just math" because not every AI can create a new language.
And I agree with Elon Musk:
AI may be perfect soliders - non human army potencially would be invincible. Let's imagine that few countries have got an army based od AI - do you think that there are no countries which would like to use it to take more, for example land? Third World War guaranteed.
So we've got one advantage - soliders. Robots with AI may take care of humanitarian relief, thaey may save people (fires, when they sink). They may help at the hospitals, in home - as nurses, but also as maids.
But what would happen if AI would revolt? Maybe there would be another Orwell's Animal Farm? You have to remember that AI would be not only what it was programmed to be, but it will be able to learn - it can learn good things but also bad - what if it would resist people?
Despite if the second one is achievable we already achieved the first one in the form of face/voice/text/images recognizers, DeepBlue/AlphaGo players that beat the humans, drivers mood analyzing cars, bots that walk over the internet and write posts, tweets, comments imitating humans, recognizing the context, stock exchange bots that buy and sell depending on vast amounts of data, those are all "simple AI" containing just a bunch of "if" statements and/or using machine learning algorithms. Those are not terminators, those are not "true AI". Those are just simply tools, programmed for one goal, very limited in what it can do, used to serve and "make life easier". It is unlikely that a smart "AI" toaster which is analyzing your favorite toast will revolt one day because you threw away his sister microwave. It is not programmed/made to
"True AI" on the other hand, one that has close to infinite compute power, given true intelligence, "a will" so to say, open way to decide for it self, is something unpredictable and incomprehensible for us humans, Ex Machina example is something that is indeed dangerous without the countermeasures mentioned in the TED talk. At the same time it can be something wonderful and helpful to entire humanity.
While the first kind of AI without giving it access to nuclear red button is helpful and rather harmless, the second one can decide and gain access to the red button itself. I agree with Elon and not only him but Stephen Hawking also warns about the second kind of AI. It much depends on the creators (us humans) how it will turn out in the end though. Are we going to create perfect soldiers or problem solvers which we are in dire need of.
There are lots of advantages of AI that its even hard to count, but the most important one that I would like to mention is a rapid optimisation of all humanity processes. And I want to say that there is only one disadvantage. It can become uncontrollable so fast that we won`t even recognise the moment when we lost a control under world biggest future and threat called AI.
I was talking about Elon Musk idea in my work. I think that is unreal but my friends are agree with that. I hope that I'm right!
AI has definitely become a hi-tech buzzword. I believe AI hype will pass, as it happened with other buzzwords, the most recent one being "semantics". AI methods were developed decades ago (from 40s-early 70s) and it is only as a result of Google, Amazon and other big players pumping money into it that is has become "a thing".
AI is useful for solving problems that can be modelled using the provided mathematical frameworks. These frameworks have strict assumptions and each has its own limitations.
As a result of exploiting AI, I noticed many companies and start-ups automatically jumping on AI bandwagon without considering other solutions (it is partially due to the fact that it is easier to obtain investment if your technological solution implements a current buzzword).
It is also tempting to just download Google's neural network and throw your problem into it hoping for a bit of magic. Unfortunately, most soon discover it is not as simple as that.
I'm not sure if I agree with Musk on AI leading to the third world war. I'm much less optimistic than that. I think we will get there sooner than we will see this magnitude of innovations introduced in AI mathematical frameworks.
Artificial intelligence is lastly more and more frequently topic. I think that now are the beginnings of AI era. Thera are many of these speculations about it right now and the time shows that we ware right or not. I think AI is very interesting topic and I keep my fingers crossed for success of all that filed.
What are advantages and disadvantages to AI?
From advantages there are many related with human living AI could help many people from every day problems, to science very taught problems. In the other hand some of the speculations can become real which is scarring and difficult to imagine.
Do you agree with Elon Musk about AI?
This is one of the speculation from kind of scary one. But is hard to tell that could be real.
Elon Musk is a great man, who rarely makes a mistake. I hope, that he will this time and we won’t be participating in a war with robots.
I haven't yet watched the Ex Machina, but I've seen this same problem raised, although in somewhat more light-hearted fashion in another movie called Chappie.
The movie takes place in a future where police used somewhat intelligent robots as officers, and an engineer who created an AI algorithm. He installs the AI onto a decommissioned robot, which turns it into a learning bot. The bot starts with an intelligence of a toddler, but it's gonna advance to the level of an adult in a matter of weeks.
The problems arise when the task of raising the bot, lands on a group of local gangsters. A struggle begin between the creator of the bot trying to instil proper values and the gang leader trying to turn the bot into its personal killing machine.
This might be science fiction now, but according to this lecture we might one day find ourselves in a similar situation, we a rapidly advancing AI that needs us to guide, before it's too late. And seeing what we do to each-other every day, can we really trust ourselves to be up for the task?
*with a rapidly advancing AI that need us to guide it
I think Elon Must may be right but I wouldn't treat him like some prophet. He is perceived as visionary but in fact a lot of huge companies have futuristic projects, for example Microsoft is already creating tools for developers for quantum computers and Google is looking for a "death cure" for few years already.
For example, you are looking for a work ( Web developer ), and AI is very strongly developed. I think you will never find a job, because it would be better and more economical for employer.
second, AI will be smarter
Third, AI every country will be using for war....
Mb Elon Musk He's not the best person in the world , but you should thinking and understand what will be bad or good not only for you, for all !