Artificial Intelligence is the addition of brains or intelligence in the robots or machines. With a brain inside the machines, those machines behaves like humans with the power of Artificial Intelligence. AI is rising at a humongous rate as there is a large list of companies which are using AI in their devices, one of the biggest example of AI is Google’s unmanned cars in California. Companies like Google, Facebook, Tesla, Microsoft etc are investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence. Google’s Google Now and Apple Siri are two another good example of AI. Both Google Now and Apple Siri has the ability to mimic human behavior. Facebook’s facial recognition is another AI based example that limits the human privacy as it can recognize the humans tagged in the photos. It is important to take note of AI and its rising activities in technological world and to notice if it will become a real threat in the coming future. There are lots of companies and educational institutes spending millions of dollars in the AI based research. One of the drawbacks that can be seen in the near future is that it will definitely cut down lots of jobs as machines or robots with AI capability can do the human work at a much faster pace than humans. Autonomous Artificial Intelligence is seen as a big threat by many scientists around the world. Autonomous AI when integrated with weapons, health care or transport industry involves in large risk in decision making . There are lots of legal or ethical issues also involved with Artificial Intelligence. In a recent survey of the British Science Association around 36% of people think that the rise in AI poses threats to humanity. AI also lead to unemployment at large scale. Google has bought a london based AI startup called DeepMind in 2014 for £400 million, which has the ability to beat the best human minds in the world at Go, the most complex board game in the world. Renowned scientist Stephen Hawking also thinks that rise in AI will end the human race. The impact of human of AI in human race depends also on who will control the AI, autonomous AI will be dangerous as suggested by lots of scientists. Therefore the major threats of AI on human race rises if the AI is not under the control. Also there are concerns that it will diminish lots of jobs. Elon Musk of Tesla is spending $10 million research for keeping AI under control.
References –
[1] Christian de Looper (2015), Tech Times, Is Artificial Intelligence really a threat to humanity. Retrieved from – http://www.techtimes.com/articles/80029/20150828/artificial-intelligence-really-threat-humanity.htm
[2] Joel Achenbach (2015), Washington Post, The A.I. Anxiety. Retrieved from – http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/12/27/aianxiety/
[3] Stephen Hawking, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, Frank Wilczek (2014), independent.co.uk, “Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence – but are we taking AI seriously enough?”. Retrieved from – http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-transcendence-looks-at-the-implications-of-artificial-intelligence-but-are-we-taking-9313474.html
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