The
Benefits and Disadvantages of #AI - Are Computers Taking Over? @GbtTechnologies
November 4, 2019 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Lately,
as new technologies emerge and eventually converse with each other, a growing
awareness and concern has taken over tech developers and company chiefs since
the fact that artificial intelligence is here to stay and there is no way of
stopping it, or is there?
Let’s take a look at the good AI is bringing for us
before we acknowledge what worries the tech community and perhaps the entire
society.
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Artificial Intelligence is outgrowing itself rapidly
each day, from self-driving cars or autonomous super computers like Watson,
they can make the best out of any task they are programmed to take care of.
Created by humans to make things “faster, better, stronger” , artificial
intelligence is about making building machines that can think and act
intelligently, and learn from it.
At this moment, most applications are created and used
for the benefit of mankind with tools such as transport, facial recognition,
natural language processing or internet searches that make our lives easier and
more secure every day. Soon AI will be authorized and able to operate in
matters of law, jurisdiction, devices and programs will take care of your
information, computer crashes, transactions, etc., all of it for the benefit of
you and your loved ones. And that’s ok.
The impact that Amazon, Google, Recurrent.ai, Wai Yun
AI, and Microsoft are making is rapidly accelerating the “AI race”. You see, the
AI you’re aware of as a user every day is called “narrow AI”, this means that
this kind of artificial intelligence, while autonomous and self-learning, is
designed to take care of a specific task. Take for example Google’s search
algorythms, they know what to look for and how to behave when they find it,
just that.
General AI (AGI or strong AI) on the other side, is about outperforming humans at nearly every cognitive task. An evolved AI, which is what most researches work on and want to achieve would have your car do exactly how you would do it, same with your pacemaker, airplane, your automatic trading system or your power grid.
The ultimate goal
for Strong AI is to self-learn, is this bad?
The case of autonomous weapons is one to take a close
look at. As with most technologies, AI will find itself increasingly used for
military applications. A war, defense systems, or a battlefield filled with
robots could become a dangerous reality if the machines go awry.
Who would take
responsibility for an accident? Or much worse, a human life?
Many companies -including thousands of Google companies
have pledged not to develop AI technologies for harmful use. Still, it is
common knowledge that Amazon and Microsoft are doing so. There is pressure for
another digital Vienna Convention to regulate, and agree on this matter.
Technologists still claim that any AI they design and develop is not authorized or capable of making
“combat decisions” on its own, that it will always rely on a final decision
made by a human. How sure can you be of this assumption when things like this
happen:
Months ago, Facebook shut down its own robots after
detecting that they might have developed their own language, and might be
communicating fluently on their own. These two artificially intelligent
programs appeared to be talking in a language only they understood.
The two Facebook chatbots created their own changes to
the English language, this made it easier for them to communicate -though it
remained a secret to the humans looking after them. Facebook was pushing for
its robots to start a chat and negotiate towards a trade that included balls, hats
and books. Each item was given a certain value, suddenly negotiations broke
down as the robots appeared to me exchanging information, chanting at each
other in a language incomprehensible to humans.
The developer’s flaw was not to specify the machines to
use comprehensible English to negotiate between each other, which allowed them
to create their own “shorthand” version.
After the negotiations in this language were decrypted,
technologists found out that the trades had taken place effectively and that
the conversations showed interest in a specific item. Researcher Mike Lewis
justified shutting down the chats when he said "our interest was having
bots who could talk to people".
Google was another one to reveal that the AI it uses
for its Translate tool had created its own language, which it would translate
things into and then out of. But the company was happy with that development
and allowed it to continue.
A worried Elon Musk commented: "The pace of
progress in artificial intelligence (I'm not referring to narrow AI) is
incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you
have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of
something seriously dangerous happening in the five-year timeframe, 10 years at
most.”
In order to exist AI has to be created by man; but if
AI self-learns creation and assumes the autonomy to suggest and execute final
decisions according to its own judgement, what happens next?
Perhaps this dog needs a leash.
About GBT TECHNOLOGIES, S.A
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development-stage company in the business of the strategic management of BPO
(Business Process Outsourcing) digital communications processing for
enterprises and startups; distributed ledger technology development, AI
development and fintech software development and applications.
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