Artificial Intelligence
What if the next time you were hungry,
you could tell your kitchen to cook a meal for you?
What if with a simple touch
of a button, you could get your house to clean itself?
And what if I told you this
could all be possible?
With the work of artificial
intelligence or AI.
Dear readers, allow me to
take you on a journey on the wonders of Artificial Intelligence.
AI is something that is
becoming more advanced everyday and is disrupting our world.
To most people, the idea of artificial
intelligence is fascinating, which it truly is
I mean, who wouldn't want a
robot to do all our chores for us, who we can communicate with or maybe one
which can even advice us like a little companion?
It truly seems like a dream
come true
Some of us, including I
myself, were surprised that intellectuals like Elon Musk, Stephen Hawkings and
Bill Gates were genuinely concerned and against the idea of advanced AI.
Now, don't get me wrong, they
are actually perfectly fine with AI at its current state right now, but are
very against the idea of AI becoming better.
Because they fear the day
artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence
They fear what might happen
when our creations become more advanced than we are
That fear has actually been around
for ages
But what made that fear a
near reality was in 1997
When a robot named Deep Blue,
beat the World's Best Chess Player at his own game
That moment went down in
history as the first time robots defeated us
That was the first and
certainly wasn't the last
In the mid 2000's a robot
named Watson beat the two best players at Jeopardy, a game which requires tons
of memory, analytical thinking and speed
In 2016, just last year,
Google's AI beat the world's best player at a game called go, a game which requires
strategy, and is generally much harder than chess is
People were impressed, but
they were fearful
Machines had defeated world
champions
Machines had defeated some of
the best of the human species
Naturally, people had been
hoping humans would win in the fight against robots and were devastated to find
the outcome
And they shouldn't have been
The machines were victorious,
yes
But, was it superior?
No, no it wasn't
The machine wasn't victorious
because it was just intelligent, the machine was victorious because of its
human creators!
Always, a machine's triumph
is a human's triumph
That's something we tend to
forget when humans are surpassed by our own creations
People need to realise that
it isn't all about
Human Vs. Machine
and instead,
Human Plus Machine
What if we combined our
strengths and worked side by side?
Machines have tactics, we
have strategies
Machines have memory, we have
experience
Machines have objectivity,
We have passion
Human plus machine isn't the
future, it's the present
And we don't get to choose
when and where technological progress stops
We can't slow down, in fact
we have to speed up
Our technology excels at
removing difficulties and uncertainties from our lives
And so we must seek out for
ever more difficult and ever more uncertain challenges
We should not worry about
what machines can do today
Instead, we should worry
about what they still cannot do
Because we will need the help
of these new intelligent machines to turn our grandest dreams into reality
And if we fail, if we fail
It's not because our machines
have become too intelligent or not intelligent enough
It's because we have grown
too proud of ourselves and limited our ambitions
Us humans are not defined by
our skills
There is one thing only
humans can do
And That's dreaming!
So let us dream big!
By: Shveenita Alyza
Published by: Ethan Richard
