Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?
Advertisement
Advertisement
I think it is time to call If there is one scientific development that time and again is made to eat the humble pie despite the innumerable comforts it provides for its masters, it is AI.
What is AI?
In the scientific terms, it is nothing but a shaken and stirred concoction of diverse, analytical, and abstract algorithms inspired by several facets of mainstream or in a much accepted reality - natural intelligence.
Many a times, the things we are so close to and attached to are the ones we fear will grow out of us. It is precisely when we begin to get paranoid that one day it might leave our hand and go away. Think about it. Every piece of gadget you and I own is enabled with some form of intelligence. It is not capable of functioning on its own without the brain that another man has provided for it. In the absence of this ability for it to think and act, the gadget is just a piece of metal or plastic or whatever form it has been given, just as we are given the form of flesh and blood. But is AI really as fatal as it is projected to be?
Advertisement
At Zeitgeist 2015 conference in London,
Other experts in the field may not share the exact extremist views about AI as Stephen Hawking, but tech experts and thought leaders across the world are in the same boundary of concern.
Further, the physicist and entrepreneur, Louis Del Monte, when speaking to the former Business Insider reporter
Contrary to the experts and the naysayers, when we look at the world of artificial intelligence we see usability, reliability, user-friendliness, heightened user-experience, convenience, and a state of freedom and assistance never experienced by man before today.
Advertisement
Information: Everything we type and do with that internet switch turned on is valuable data for somebody who is waiting to create something for you and me. But the data collected from people like us are in multiples of billions computed at irrational speeds that could not be fathomed by man alone. AI will be able to search, analyse, interpret and deliver better results than normal or traditional indexing and data processing methods can vouch for.
Experience: We are at a stage, where we need assistance from time to time to tell us what we might possibly be looking for. AI's constantly developing infrastructure provides an autonomous and automatic diagnosis, understanding the needs of the user through maps, patterns, abstraction and deep level learning that helps create better user experiences by providing more accurate results for the concerned query or need.
Prediction: Since artificial intelligence is built on the philosophy that prevention is better than cure, AI preemptively helps detect the bad plums. As only a minute percentage of transactions are undertaken offline, and the remaining online, it is important to ensure that there are no faulty or fraudulent transactions, and in the event of one – to have it nipped in the bud. AI has given man the atmosphere to take better decisions in extremely short windows, with its innate ability to assess, predict and fixate.
Artificial intelligence is here to stay to help us evolve. Its intentions might be exaggerated and overrated. We may fear that when the time comes, it will depart from us leaving us to our own misery. But for the time being, what we really have to be concerned about is the present of the future, which is going at a progressive pace. Perhaps, it is us who have to be conscious about the input of our life in the lifestyle of technology we have chosen to make our lives easier and better.
As
Advertisement
(Image: Thinkstock)Advertisement
- I spent $2,000 for 7 nights in a 179-square-foot room on one of the world's largest cruise ships. Take a look inside my cabin.
- Saudi Arabia wants China to help fund its struggling $500 billion Neom megaproject. Investors may not be too excited.
- Colon cancer rates are rising in young people. If you have two symptoms you should get a colonoscopy, a GI oncologist says.
- Markets extend gains for 5th session; Sensex revisits 74k
- Top 10 tourist places to visit in Darjeeling in 2024
- India's forex reserves sufficient to cover 11 months of projected imports
- ITC plans to open more hotels overseas: CMD Sanjiv Puri
- 7 Indian dishes that are extremely rich in calcium