Artificial Intelligence.

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By:- Deepti Talwar, BCA- 6^th sem, 1^st shift

      What does artificial intelligence actually means?

 Artificial Intelligence in contrast to natural intelligence that is possessed by animals and humans like you and me, is the one demonstrated by the machines. According to the father of Artificial Intelligence, John McCarthy, it is “The science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs”. Intelligent computer programs can be any machine or say an intelligent agent that analyses its environment as per how human brains think, learn, decide and work while in the same environment and takes action so as to increase its probability of achieving a goal.

Learning, planning, reasoning, knowledge, perception, natural language processing, and ability to manipulate and move the objects are the basic problems or goals of Artificial Intelligence. The field of artificial intelligence was founded on the claim that human brain can be so accurately defined that a machine can be made to imitate it. This has raised a metaphysical argument about nature on human mind and ethics of creating human like being.

Another issue of artificial intelligence that is argued about is the scope of AI. The basic reason behind this dispute is the increasing capability of the machine, due to which the tasks that require so called intelligence are regularly being removed from the definition of AI. For example, optical character recognition is no more termed as artificial intelligence because of its now becoming a regular technology.

Artificial intelligence at same time can be proved as beneficial as well as dangerous.

The main idea behind having AI in our lives is to make human life easier. AI can be proved as stimulant to scientific and technological discoveries. It has many functions and definitely much more efficient, thus saving time and resources for humans hence making it possible to devote more time to do important things that cannot be done by AI agents. Increase of work Efficiency, Error Detection, Digital Assistants, Difficult Explorations, Error Reduction, No breaks Requirement, etc. are some basic benefits of artificial intelligence.

                                                                                                                            

In next few decades AI is going to empower our lives, while the argument “that the Artificial Intelligent Agent in future may lead to mass unemployment” may continue to be a hot topic amongst various groups of society, we still have time to prepare ourselves as to avoid the possible risks of AI.

Most experts agree that an AI agent can never showcase human emotions love or hatred, so it can never be expected to be kind or malicious.

Two scenarios can that be considered as how AI might become a risk can most likely be:

1.      AI in many cases is programmed to do something destructive. For example, autonomous weapons are nothing but programmed AI killing machine, in wrong hands these can be used as mass destructors or can start an AI war.

2.      A Beneficial AI may develop a devastating method to achieve its goal. This may happen we fail to fully stimulate the AI’s goal with ours. For example if we ask an fully obedient AI agent to comp complete a task as fast as possible it make end up covered in vomit, and not completing the actual task.

As these scenarios illustrate the concern just arises when AI agents are not properly aligned with nature of human mind.

Such issues brings out new research topics such as AI safety.

 

There are still many issues that are to be resolved, many questions that are to be answered, many arguments to be won, many possibilities to be discovered and many limits to be conquered to see Artificial Intelligence as part of daily lives and making most of our tasks much more easier than today.