What used to be science fiction is now a reality. According to Jon Purizhansky, while not everyone understands the concept of Artificial Intelligence, it’s become a part of our daily lives. No one can predict how it will develop and what its contributions will be to the human evolutionary process, but it’s impossible to discount it as some science fiction phenomenon any longer.
So, what is AI? Artificial Intelligence is the science of computers developing human-like intelligence. Whether we realize it or not, we use it every day to reduce our efforts and bring efficiency into our processes and methods both at home and at work
Jon Purizhansky says that a perfect example of AI is a bit. You ask the bot a question and it gives you an answer. AI is commonly used in healthcare, in banking and financial services, in defense and intelligence, in transportation and most importantly in research and development of new technologies. The challenging question is “ what will happen when AI will surpass human intelligence?” While it’s impossible to answer this question accurately, scientists believe that once the AI system starts working in its full capacity, it will reinvent the world that we know today. AI will take over industries, including construction, waste management, and transportation within the foreseeable future. Smart robots may replace humans completely when it comes to manual labor. Humans, in turn, will focus more on education and developing intellectual skills. This will lead to a leap in human evolutionary development on an unimaginable scale.
However, Jon Purizhansky notices that AI
development could also bring risks with it. He talks about the fears so well
demonstrated by Hollywood, i.e. smart machines developing their own
civilization that would destroy the human race. While remote, it’s possible.
The risks of AI controlling your car, your airplane, your pacemaker, your
automated trading system or your power grid are obvious. Obviously, the
toughest question is what will happen if the quest for strong AI succeeds and
an AI system becomes better than humans at all cognitive tasks. Hence,
developing smarter AI systems is itself a cognitive task. AI could potentially
undergo recursive self-improvement, triggering an intelligence explosion
leaving human intellect far behind. By inventing revolutionary new
technologies, such a superintelligence might help us eradicate war, disease,
and poverty, and so the creation of strong AI might be the biggest event in
human history, but it could also destroy the human race.
This is why it is so
important that AI R&D is managed in a smart and ethical way. Therefore, Jon Purizhansky says that AI development
needs to be subject to regulatory oversight on national and international
levels to ensure that its growth and development is reasonably controlled.
While the benefits of AI are self-evident, it risks need to be carefully
analyzed and a balanced approach to the AI development must be developed, while
international regulatory development protocols must be created and enforced for
the benefit of humanity.
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