Artificial Intelligence During The World Today

Zoltan recently spoke at the Artificial Intelligence and The Singularity Conference in Oakland, California. It had AI specialists Peter Voss and Monica Anderson, New York University educator Gary Marcus, science fiction author Nicole Sallak Anderson, and futurist Scott Jackisch. We were fascinated in how artificial intelligence will impact the world. My subject was "The Morality of an Artificial Intelligence Will be Different from our Human Morality."

Artificial intelligence and robotics are growing to become increasingly influential in our society. With new technology always comes new concerns however, with this particular technology, there are much greater concerns than any event in history. Artificial intelligence has presented dangers such as a loss of employment across all job spectrums, an exponentially increased wage gap in which there are a select few who hold the majority of the wealth and the rest are impoverished, and the mere fact that the magnitude of knowledge that would be acquired in incomprehensible to humans. The main reason AI is so threatening is its ability to teach itself to improve, this is known as machine learning. Through all the contrasting arguments on the implications of these new technologies, one common fact can be agreed on by supporters and resisters alike: artificial intelligence in inevitable, it is coming, no one truly knows when and how but the fact remains that, eventually, artificial intelligence will be integrated with society as we know it.

Due to the ways that the media depicts futuristic dystopias, many fear the potential reality of a world conquered by entities of artificial intelligence. In their article “Let’s Stop Freaking Out About Artificial Intelligence”, Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun argue that the continual effort towards developing artificial intelligence (AI) will provide assistance to humanity essential for building a better future. Although AI is currently limited to mindless tasks that don’t range past folding laundry and customer service, Schmidt and Thrun believe that the development of AI “Is truly a global effort, with global potential” (Schmidt and Thrun par. 10). As with many of the innovations that define humanity, AI has the capabilities to replace human

Society today is greatly influenced by technology and the impact it has had within the past 20 years. One of the largest breakthroughs, though, is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). The technology associated with A.I. has greatly developed in the past years, and is only making devices smarter. When someone mentions technology, or even the technological breakthroughs the world has gone through recently, many people go straight to smartphones and computers. A.I. is often overlooked, or put into a general category of "technology". Yet, artificial intelligence is something that should we not be so quick to dismiss, and should be something that gets people talking and even excited for what the future holds.

Writers Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have written about a historical event that will occur with artificial intelligence (AI) technology, where we create a new form of intelligent life. This new AI will make us question our existence and what it means to be “human”, a point of no return for technological history. Kurzweil focused on AI development and the fusion between computers and humans, and while this may sound improbable, we have seen the impacts already: Google’s DeepMind, IBM’s Watson, changes in technology for transportation (self-driving cars, car share services/taxis), medicine (Google’s verily, deep learning algorithms for medical diagnosis), the financial sector (bitcoin/digital currency trading, ‘robot advisors’), consumer sales

In an effort to prove that computers will never evolve into systems similar to human, Fish (2011) also presents an illogical argument that men will never be able to create a machine that is comparable to mankind, which is a paradox in itself as he tries to prove mankind’s superiority by assuming a limited the scope of man’s intelligence in creating complex machines with cognitive abilities.

Artificial intelligence, it's been the topic of many sci fi books, futuristic movies and countless fictional conversations between geeks. But it's no longer just an idea of the far off future, in fact Microsoft says it's been researching this topic for 20 years already. Casey Newton, an author at the Verge, sits down to talk with Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella about its future with AI. Microsoft is not the only large tech company with its sights set on the future of AI being the next big advancement in how we interact with computers, Google, Facebook and Amazon also have vested interest in the this field, but are reluctant to offer any insight as to how far their technology has advanced.

However, to the observer, it looks as if the machine is equally intelligent. Machines that are truly intelligent, part of a group called “cognitive artificial intelligence,” are yet to be invented. That is not to say that there has not been intense research in the area. Ray Kurzweil, a noted artificial intelligence inventor and researcher, believes that by the year 2020, software that allows machines to match the abilities of a human brain will become available (Brown). As the world is still almost a decade away from this point in time, it is difficult to tell whether this will be the case. In any case, though, it seems certain that much time and effort will be invested in developing programs and machines that can think with the same ability as a human.

Allison Berke, in her article “Future of Artificial Intelligence,” ponders the future of artificial intelligence based on the writings of several well known specialists.

It's long been predicted that by the year 2050 every activity performed by humans within the service space, will be done by artificial intelligence. Twenty-fifty seemed so far away when that concept was first introduced in the 1940s, but not so much any more. With firmware being designed to drive software to do our thinking for us, we are in the middle of a vast, seemingly unending, field of possibilities.

Soon, we will be able to build computers with artificial intelligence and processing power that rivals the human brain. Intelligence will be everywhere, embedded in our clothing, our vehicles and homes. Intelligent robots will serve us - until they don't feel like doing so anymore. And what happens then...? ..smart tech that will put android helpers in the home, upgrade transportatio. Advances in AI are creeating machines with near human-like mental agility. Intelligence embedded everywhere.

Moreover, it could be argued that since machines lack the traits such creativity, intuitivity and ingenuity that are difficult or otherwise impossible to program, human intelligence cannot be duplicated nor overcomed. Some maintain that the human mind works on more than logic and reasoning, including factors such as emotions that are essential in the characteristics of a human. A computer or robot may be able to imitate human speech and thought, but it would never fully reproduce or exceed human intelligence. In the end, it is thought that since man created technology that possesses artificial intelligence, it is unlikely that humans will lose control of their machines.

The beginning of Watsons career is a little more familiar to people than they realize. IBM research developed Watson to compete on a well-known TV game show. Watson competed as a contestant on Jeopardy. It took a team of twenty researchers and three years to get Watson to the desired level of human expertise. Researchers capitalized of the knowledge they gained from Jeopardy and altered Watson to be even smarter. The researchers created all the necessary functions in Watson to alter research methods in such a way the human race has never been exposed to. Watson can be used in research of medical and business knowledge. Watson can even answer basic everyday questions like those we have in day-to-day conversations. Watson doesn’t just take in information in English but explores document in numerous languages. The increasingly important urge to create a computer system that could hold and comprehend the more broad area of relevance. Computers before Watson have had the ability to research documents using key words or by popularity. This poses a problem when the topic of discussion is not popular. Now the IBM system Watson can be used to make important decisions in many career fields with a limited time frame. Jeopardy requires contestants to compete quickly and accurately in a non-perfect environment. The complexity of a computer system playing Jeopardy lies within the ability to risk answering incorrectly or to not answer at all. This skill takes precision and

Artificial Intelligence is a topic within the public media that has existed for decades, but is now a concern due to the reality of human advancement and innovation in the field of science and technology. Many people believe that computers will become self-aware or sentient and view humanity as a disposable resource and gain supremacy. Reasoning that research on the technology should halt and not become more advance. Whereas others believe they will help catapult research and the economy forward, supporting the operations and innovations the technology offers. The complicated and divided solutions to the debate aren’t obvious, but there are more benefits to improving artificial intelligence than there is stopping it. Therefore, the negative effects people believe will occur can be resolved.

Artificial Intelligence At a time when computer technology is advancing at a rapid pace and