Artificial İntelligence

Benefit, Risk and Myth of Artificial Intelligence

With all the hype around Artificial Intelligence - robots, self-driving cars, etc. - it can be easy to assume that AI doesn’t impact our everyday lives. In reality, most of us encounter. Artificial Intelligence in some way or the other almost every single day. From the moment you wake up to check your smartphone to watching another Netflix recommended movie, AI has quickly made its way into our everyday lives. According to a study by Statista, the global AI market is set to grow up to 54 percent every single year. But what exactly is AI? Will it really serve good to mankind in the future? Well, there are tons of advantages and disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence, which we’ll discuss in this article.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the nature of almost everything which is connected to human life e.g. employment, economy, communication, warfare, privacy, security, ethics, healthcare etc. However, we are yet to see its evolution in long-term, whether it's leading humanity towards making this planet a better place to live or a place which is full of disaster. Every technology has its advantages and disadvantages but advantages always outweigh disadvantages for the technology to survive in the market. Nonetheless, for Artificial Intelligence we are not yet sure whether in the long-term positive effects will always keep outweighing the negative effects and if that is not the case then we are in serious trouble. If we look around us, on the one hand, we seem to embrace the change being brought by technology, be it smart home, smart healthcare, Industry 4.0 or autonomous cars. On the other hand, we often found ourselves protesting against the government in the context of unemployment, taxes, privacy etc. As AI development is speeding up, more robots or autonomous systems are being born and replacing the human labor. This is the current situation; however, in long-term, results seem to get more interesting. Throughout this essay, I will cover the major domains where human life is significantly affected by AI in both positive and negative ways.

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the general sense is the implementation of the use of machines and computer models which with the slightest possible intervention from humans. This tool was developed massively recently. But it turns out the term AI has emerged since a long time in 1952, at the beginning of its development, AI able to get a fairly large success. This began with the great work of Newell and Simon, the General Problem Solver which enabled the machine to solve the problem humanely, until it continued in 1956 when John McCarthy undertook a study that produced a nonnumerical thinking program that solved the problem of thinking, this program is named Principia Mathematica. AI's main goal is to make it easier for human to complete their work. This tool is a sophisticated invention because it is able to minimize the use of human services. Areas such as military, medical, and industry have already been implementing the use of AI. The presence of AI in the modern era seems inevitable. With significant technological advancements since the beginning of the modern era, it seems that technologies such as AI are only a matter of time until they grow rapidly and become a major need in the world. Although currently AI is developed in the modern world is still a narrow AI or Basic AI or AI that is still weak. For now this technology is used to perform specific tasks by focusing on identifying objects by sensors and then AI taking appropriate action in accordance with preprogrammed. The main focus of today's scientists is how to create a comprehensive AI or General AI, with the utmost capability as humans. The specific tasks assigned to this general AI are also more advanced than the present AI. In the implementation of the use of AI in the fields of industry, military, medical, and other fields, there is a lot of usefulness and convenience that can be perceived by it’s users. In the military field for example. In ancient times, military simulations of war cost a lot of money. Coupled with the low effectiveness obtained. However, in recent years, the military world has been using vitrual reality to simulate war. In the medical field too, expert systems, electronic medical records, and kidney analysis have taken advantage of AI. On the one hand, the existence of technology clearly facilitates various human activities. The convenience offered will be helpful, especially in quite difficult and timeconsuming tasks. But on the other hand, the presence of this technology can have a negative impact if it’s not addressed wisely. One of the bad effects that AI can bring is the likelihood of increased laziness. Convenience offered can satisfy the human so that in their residence they just relax when they already use AI. Furthermore, the further impact is the lack of skills possessed by humans. When everything has been taken over by the robot, then humans will feel no need to master simple skills such as sweeping, cooking, and others. In addition, the impact that is still a problem for AI development is the narrowness of employment for humans, so that it may bring about even greater impacts such as the monetary and economic revolutions.

Experts believe that the intelligence of machines will match that of humans by 2050, thanks to artificial intelligence. The immediate consequence of the progress of artificial intelligence is the advancement of unemployment that is inevitable because it results from economic forces that are out of control. The artificial intelligence is positive for the capitalist who makes use of it because it would face its competitors in a more competitive way and would also be extremely negative for the capitalist because it tends to reduce the income available to the mass of the excluded workers of the production contributing in this way, to the fall in demand for products and services. The great threat of artificial intelligence is that it could lead to the extinction of the human race, according to scientist Stephen Hawking, who will become unmanageable to the point of putting humanity at risk.

2015

The rapid advancement of Artificial intelligence (AI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has poses a fear in the minds of its experts. AI is named among the top global risk that threatens human civilization in many ways. This research work is restricted to explore and argue based on commonsense on economic challenges posted by Robots/expert systems and other intelligent machines in industries and slightly argue on “Technological Singularity” or “Intelligence explosion” we have recommend that there is a compelling necessity to evaluate and control the development of intelligent machines by international security agencies such as FBI and CIA in collaboration with IEEE and other professional bodies. We conclude that AGI and AI systems along has no power eliminate human race in whatever situation.

Pew Research Center, 2018

Experts say the rise of artificial intelligence will make most people better off over the next decade, but many have concerns about how advances in AI will affect what it means to be human, to be productive and to exercise free will

2016

Artificial intelligence is advancing very fast in wide range. If it were to surpass that of humans significantly, there is no doubt in near future it would constitute a significant risk for humanity. This is the high time to think about it and consideration the issues that must include progress in AI as much as insights from the theory of AI. The effort in this paper tries to make cautious headway in finding the problem, evaluating predictions on the future of AI, proposing ways to ensure that Artificial Intelligence will be useful to humans – and logically evaluating such proposals.

It is growing faster than trees right in front of our eyes. We are depending on it more and more everyday and it just never ceases to amaze. I am talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI). My response on why it interests me and its vital contribution to modern society as we know it.

When it comes to artificial intelligence, myths are spreading faster than the technology itself is advancing. Left unchecked, these myths could inspire fears that undermine the technology’s progress, which would be to the detriment of economic growth and social progress. The past decade has seen important advancements in computer science that enable software systems to compile and process new information to continually improve the way they function. This improved artificial intelligence is enabling computers to become an ever more powerful and valuable complement to human capabilities: improving medical diagnoses, weather prediction, supply-chain management, transportation, and even personal choices such as where to go on vacation or what styles of clothes to buy. Yet while artificial intelligence has become commonplace—most smartphones contain some version of AI, such as speech recognition—the public still has a poor understanding of the technology. As a result, a diverse cast of critics, driven by fear of technology, opportunism, or ignorance, has jumped into the intellectual vacuum to warn policymakers that, sooner than we think, AI will produce a parade of horribles: mass unemployment, abuse from “algorithmic bias,” the end of privacy, an atrophying of human agency, and even the destruction of humanity as “Skynet”-like machines decide the world is better off without us. Indeed, these voices have grown so loud, espousing a message that a click-hungry media eagerly amplifies, that we are very near the point where these narratives may be accepted as truth. Needless to say, when AI is so vociferously demonized (indeed, the engineering magnate Elon Musk has explicitly warned that AI could be “the demon” that threatens our existence, especially if actions are not taken to design systems that can remain under human control), there is a real risk that policymakers will seek to retard its progress. This would be a terribly unfortunate outcome, because the truth is that AI systems are no different than shovels or tractors: They are tools in the service of humans, and we can use them to make our lives vastly better. Given the promise that innovation in AI holds for economic growth and societal advancement, it is critical that policymakers actively support its further development and use. The cost of not developing artificial intelligence, or developing it more slowly, would be enormous: lower growth in per-capita incomes, slower progress in areas such as health care and the environment, and reduced quality improvement in a wide array of public and private goods and services. This report provides a primer on artificial intelligence and debunks five prevailing myths that threaten to undermine its progress: 1. The myth that AI will destroy most jobs, 2. The myth that AI will make humans stupid, 3. The myth that AI will destroy people’s privacy, 4. The myth that AI will enable bias and abuse, 5. and The myth that AI will eventually exterminate humanity. Rather than give in to fear, policymakers should be doing everything possible to accelerate the progress of AI innovation.