WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?

Hey, guys let us join the trending world of Artificial Intelligence. A lot of questions pop up as we say AI. So, Here you will be getting familiar with the terms of AI. What is AI? Types of AI? Goals of AI? Pros and Cons of AI? Scope of AI? Latest news related to AI?

What is AI?

Have you ever been to a mimicry show? There you see a person trying to imitate the other person up to the maximum extent he/she can. Like: the way they talk, walk and their gesture. That is what AI is, a mimic trying to imitate human intelligence. In technical terms AI is the simulation of human intelligence in machines which are programmed to think and act like humans in certain situations. They exhibit traits associated with human minds such as learning and problem solving.

Types of AI?

Type-1

1.Narrow AI: Also known as “Weak AI” as they can’t think for themselves. They are incapable of performing a task on their own. And are designed only for particular tasks. Example: Alexa, Siri. you ask them question and they enter that into search engine and display answers accordingly but they can’t perform tasks without our command.So, they are command dependent. For more info- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_AI.

2.General AI: Also known as “Strong” AI, they can carry a task on their own. Comparatively more complex and complicated then Narrow AI. They are more like humans, as these can perform any intellectual task that a human can. Ability to solve problems, make decisions from prior knowledge and can be creative steps them closed towards more advanced technology. Example: Self Driven cars and hospital operating rooms. For more info- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm.

3.Strong AI: “Artificial super intelligence” it is believed that strong AI can exceed human intelligent in various scenarios. It will be overruling us one day. Which might be a great threat to our society. We will be lacking from them in various aspects like problem solving, decision making and in skills that we hardly discover we have. University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom defines superintelligence as “any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence.

Type-2

1.Reactive Machine: It is the most basic form of AI. Programmed in a way to provide us with the best output possible. In this form the machine chooses the best outcome based on the present possibility. Neither they can use past experiences nor they can create memory. Best example for this is the Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing supercomputer. Deep Blue calculates the best move possible at the present situation, it can’t take decision by using memory or past experience.

2.Limited Memory: These machines generates an output through observing and monitoring activities of the object to be taken in concern. They are preprogrammed in such a way that these observations are then stored to their memory which further help them in making decisions. But this memory is transient. Example: traffic light making self judgement about turning red signal to green automatically if their is more traffic on one side of road as no traffic on the other side.

3.Theory Of Mind: “Theory of mind” is itself so interesting, according to it every individual have their own perspective of life , their desires and beliefs. So, focusing on this theory, experiments are done. Machines will be build in future using this theory. They will be programmed in such a way that they can actually get the idea of entities in the world. For accepting these machines in our society it’s necessary that, they should be familiar with the fact that each one of us have different thinking, believes, feelings and expectations. These machines will be more user friendly, and will be closer in approaching human neural with machines.

4.Self Awareness: As the word itself suggests the meaning and intention behind this creation of science. “Conscious knowledge about one’s own feelings and character” , the idea behind this machine is just an extended form of theory of mind. Science is planning to build machines which are conscious about their individuality. Programmed in such a way that they can be angry, happy and have various feelings. But at present it seems hypothetical. We are far from achieving that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_artificial_intelligence.

What are the Goals Of AI?

• The measure goal of AI, as we can predict is to, equip machines with human intelligence. In other words it is a collaboration of human intelligence and machines.
• To build machines which can be a part of human society.
• To build much complex machines, that can perform various tasks on their own.
• To build systems which can advice their users.

What Are Pros And Cons Of AI?

Pros:

• These can provide us more accurate information about particular area of search.
• Solving complex problems will be easy and precise.
• Rate of working will increase in factories and in many other fields, if we replace humans with AI machines.
• Various life threatening situations where humans presently work in, can be accomplished by these without actual loss of any life. Works like mining .
• They can detect fraud in card based systems like ATM’s. Can help in cyber crime.
• They can be used for discussions as they can provide more effective way to resolve the problem. Without being emotionally inclined.
• Can be posted in army as well (when coded properly with precautions).
• They can be used for researches as they can predict effective outcomes far beyond a human can imagine.

Cons:

• These require a lot of investment of time and money.
• Advancing them to extreme level might result in giving the power in their hands, which could be weaponized against us.
• Lack of emotions might result in some of the harmful decision, like allowing them in hospital may result in panicking the patient as they will think of logic rather then the feelings of the patient at that time.
• Replacing people in factory with them might result in unemployment which will eventually lead to poverty.
• If someone coded them with wrong intention they can lead to disaster.
• Don’t let machine be your master because if so, we might lose our capabilities to think beyond as we’ll be dependent on them.

Scope of AI?

Richard Barnett is currently “chief marketing officer at supplyframe” and “former super vice president of LevaData Inc” one’s quoted in an interview that “those who don’t adopt AI are at risk of losing their jobs, or not able to progress forward” this statement itself predicts the scope of AI in future. In simple words AI is going to be a major part of our life which will eventually lead to the necessity of learning this technology. AI will be reserving a large sector of employment as it is a vast field to discover. It is good if we start preparing our self today for the upcoming technology.

Question and answer with Richard Barnett about the future of AI. https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/30035-qa-the-future-of-ai-for-strategic-sourcing.

Latest News Related to AI

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“Sophia”

Sophia is world’s first robot citizen and first robot innovation ambassador for United Nations development programme. A Hanson Robotics’ latest human like robot and is considered as future of AI. She is used for experiments on combining human intelligence with machines and adapting to the user’s need, how actually the neural system can be programmed in machine’s. A dream of many and the future of AI, a science fiction whereas in other ways a real science that what this Hanson Robotics’ is.

• What are your views about Artificial Intelligence, should we stop experimenting with it’s limits?
• Is it harmful for our society? What is your prediction about it’s effect on humans?

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