The word “intelligence” has once again been pushed to the forefront of media debate. Whether it was smart home products that revealed security issues at the March 15 gala, or Alpha Go, which beat Korean Go master Lee Se-dol 4:1, the distance between “intelligence” in full force and us seems to be getting closer and closer.
However close, people tend to treat things around the lack of vigilance and preparedness. Somebody says intelligent household still is in concept period, talk about artificial intelligence to return premature, but the development of science and technology and commercial popularization, often be in you casual in evolution very big section, and the change that this kind of evolution brings also is you for a while in half cannot clear judgment. Right now you’re controlling your remote control or your APP, but it may not be long before the “toys” you control have the freedom to understand your habits and thoughts, and the “intelligence” will be scary.
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, Giiso’s research and development products include editing robots, writing robots and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
Be wary of “intelligent” humans
In addition to online shopping, takeaway food and second-hand trading platforms, the March 15 party targeted smart home products such as drones, smart power supplies, smart washing machines, smart microwave ovens and smart cameras. The program exposed in the network connection of these smart home products may suffer from hackers remote control, leakage of privacy security. This is also the first CCTV intelligence hardware security issues disclosed.
A bug in your computer can turn your PC into a chicken. If your PC is just a simple entertainment tool, then hackers may not pose any threat to you. But once this kind of chicken spreads in every aspect of your home life, your personal privacy and financial security can be seriously threatened.
Smart home products have the potential to become chicken. Installing a Wifi receiver, writing a control program, and then developing a mobile APP have become the most popular smart home products. This kind of simple and not systematic intelligent hardware, most did not join any encryption mechanism, as well as security vulnerability detection mechanism, a little understanding of network technology, you can easily gain control of the hardware.
Imagine if a hacker managed to break into these smart home hardware, remotely activating your microwave, turning on your camera surveillance, breaking your smart door lock… These are chilling. The seemingly distant problems are in fact dangerous everywhere, and even affect our life safety.
The current smart home product technology is constantly mature, intelligent technology is higher, the product hardware contains technology will be more complex, its own carry security risks are greater. Whether to apply universal or establish a strict firewall system is not only an issue of corporate social responsibility, but also requires the government to strengthen supervision through administrative means.
On the other hand, the rapid development of artificial intelligence has also brought some panic to human beings. In addition to the topic of human dignity during Lee sedol’s battle with Alpha Go, it was the fear of ARTIFICIAL intelligence. There is a saying circulating on the Internet: if artificial intelligence is smart enough, it will choose to lose to human today. That’s a horrible sentence to think about. If a superior human beats an ai at chess, an angry AI might electrify a computer mouse and kill the superior human.
Alpha Go doesn’t do that yet. It’s also just a tool. Alpha Go combines multiple stress neural networks with other AI techniques, so you can learn from a wide range of previous chess games and improve them by playing against yourself. Alpha Go is not limited to Go. The deep learning technology it is based on can be used to great effect in other fields as well.
Artificial intelligence is powerful enough. On the one hand, many service industries and mechanical jobs may be replaced by more efficient ARTIFICIAL intelligence, and the social structure will change greatly. On the other hand, once AI has the ability to “learn” and “think” for itself, people will have to rethink whether it is a threat or an opportunity.
Smart home will also be AI
We can imagine that after hundreds of years, human science and technology is highly developed, and all intelligent household products have moved towards the artificial intelligence of super high levels. What kind of relationship will you have with your home appliances and household products?
When you come back from a run, you take off your clothes to take a shower, and the AI laundry machine collects your clothes through a robotic arm, dries them when you’re done, and then finds where the closet is, folds them and puts them in the closet. And when you’re about to get out of the shower, you’ll send your clean clothes to the bathroom according to your preference. Obviously, the current technology doesn’t do that.
Intelligent household moves towards artificial intelligence to still need to pass 3 stages. The first networking control stage: such as now a lot of intelligent bulbs, intelligent sockets, intelligent kettle and so on, is in these home appliances to join the control terminal, when it is open when it is off, what color light and so on. The second stage is to build platform feedback. Add a number of sensors to the home appliance products, transfer different data to the intelligent platform in different scenarios, and then feed back the results to the home appliance for corresponding operations through cloud computing. The third stage: man-machine fusion. The washing machine example I gave above. There is a fourth extreme: machines can feel and think.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
The Internet of Things, currently being promoted by the smart home industry, is in its second phase. The most typical case in China is Haier U+ Smart Life 2.0. In the just past AWE2016, haier occupied a space alone and launched 7 smart ecospheres to surprise Quan Chang
Although intelligent hardware develops rapidly, it does not bring the same excellent consumer experience as technology, and this huge emerging market is not yet complete system. Although the intelligent terminal has a comprehensive layout, it lacks the association and cooperation between devices, or the situation that a number of intelligent hardware has to install a number of APPS. The fragmented scene and complex operation make it hard for users to think about using it. It also makes such intelligence dispensable.
Haier U+ has an idea of integration. It is an open interface protocol, a transparent platform, so that different household appliances and services are connected to this platform. At the same time, the platform also provides voice, image recognition and other human-computer interaction technology, to provide users with better services. Official propaganda can realize the ability to hear, see, speak, think and feel. But with current sensor technology and intelligent algorithms, the ability to interact with thoughts and emotions is still very rudimentary.
Right now the intelligent household key had no longer product itself, but focus to unify the big data platform and artificial intelligence technology. It has to be said that such a change broke through the limitations of doing a single product idea. For example, you can buy, store, cook, entertain, and even interact in your kitchen. It also explores a new mode of business landing from ecosphere to scene.
Of course, this is not just haier U+ platform. Apple’s HomeKit smart home platform has an API that lets you control your home appliances with your iPhone. But HomeKit’s smart home offerings aren’t plentiful enough.
HomeKit
There is also a better Version of Google Pillo, which supports Intel, ARM and MIPS microcontroller platforms. Brillo is said to only require 128MB of storage and 32MB of RAM. The lightweight Android-based system is tailored to the low power and resource footprint of Internet of Things devices, and most of its apis are already open.
Google pillo
We have unified and open interfaces and operating systems. Huawei, another domestic manufacturer, has also focused on the development of the connection protocol to coordinate the inconsistent connectivity, Huawei HiLink Connection protocol. It will cooperate with Haier in the field of home appliances to jointly create the “HiLink Inside” mode. Of course, these platforms are still in the early stage of development, the smart home market also needs to play with the industry chain, develop corresponding standards, in order to have considerable development.
Hilink inside
The third phase of human-machine convergence is also limited by the extent of artificial neural network technology, the “deep learning” capabilities we hear so much about on AlphaGo. We can think of it very simply as trying to mimic the way that neurons in the brain transmit, process information.
Of course, the significant improvement of hardware performance is also essential, because the model needs to be trained based on a large amount of data, just like AlphaGo needs to absorb a large number of Go score, the completion of the neural network model requires a large amount of calculation. If such neural networks and computing capabilities develop rapidly, “man-machine convergence” will also occur.
Microsoft small ice
In addition to the washing machine example above, take Microsoft’s Xiaoice as an example. (Xiaoice is not a voice assistant like Siri, she is an ARTIFICIAL intelligence and is often harassed by older drivers.) If you are still watching TV late at night (parameter photo article), Xiaoice can observe your body state by receiving signals from sensors, judge whether you should go to sleep, and then command the smart sofa to send you to the bed, and the smart bed covers you well. Xiaoice then command the TV off, the lights are also off, open the indoor air conditioning microcirculation, the temperature to 20 degrees. It sounds crazy, but we have to look forward to this future.
One might ask if the third stage is so impressive, what is the fourth stage going to be? The fourth stage is artificial intelligence with consciousness, do not need small ice to control, all household products can be under their jurisdiction in the scope of each role. Be able to make correct responses by observing, thinking and judging
Will you be defeated by artificial intelligence?
If artificial intelligence evolves to the fourth stage mentioned above, will humans dominate robots, coexist with them, or be destroyed by them? Will ARTIFICIAL intelligence gain consciousness in the future? Can they rely on incomplete information to make judgments? Does your microwave at home explode when it gets angry? Air conditioning angry can winter blow air conditioning? We don’t like to admit it, but that day may come.
Scientists are studying how the human brain generates consciousness, improving the speed of computers, and acquiring new storage media. These three directions are exactly where ARTIFICIAL intelligence is seeking new breakthroughs. If Moore’s Law holds, the future of sentient AI is scary.
When you give an ai a command, it “conceives” the command itself in conjunction with changes in the environment, and each change means that its thoughts drift further and further away from your command, and eventually deviate from its original intention. AlphaGo was designed by people who were certainly not masters of the game, but it was able to conceive of a wide range of possibilities based on changes in the opponent’s moves and then choose the best. Artificial intelligence is no different from human beings. Genes dominate the evolution of cells, leading to the emergence of tissues, organs and individuals. Genes just want such individuals to survive and reproduce. In this continuous evolution, individuals have a sense of freedom, the ability to learn, retain the original intention of the gene, but also have the ability to make their own decisions, no longer subject to the rule of the gene.
It just took billions of years of genetic evolution to make us special. But at the end of the day, people are just a bunch of carbon, and carbon works, so why not silicon? Our brains, like artificial intelligence, are made of finite matter, and carbon-based life is not necessarily superior to silicon-based life. Ai in the future will be smart, because processors are getting faster and faster all the time, and storage rates are getting faster and faster. Lee Sedol is smarter than his dad, and you’re probably smarter than yours. Machines are evolving, people are evolving, and ai is certainly evolving as well.
If we worry that artificial intelligence is too smart for the purpose for which it was designed, there are plenty of tools we can use to regulate it. We can train it, and we do that with weak AI all the time. Remember chappie? Humans have worked so hard to create artificial intelligence and give it the freedom to think and feel, and eventually their own consciousness has been incorporated into the mechanical body. If artificial intelligence is endowed with the basic consciousness of pursuing freedom, rights and equality, maybe artificial intelligence will become a new “species” and live in peace with people.
But what are we designing ARTIFICIAL intelligence for? In order to make it better achieve our established goals, to maximize the benefits. So artificial intelligence is always serving people. So what’s scary about it is not how much evil it breeds to start wars, but that it accomplishes those goals, but it’s not in our interest.
Conclusion: There is no need to worry about the “threat” of ARTIFICIAL intelligence. It is not certain that artificial intelligence will oppress human intelligence. A closed-field intelligence like AlphaGo will certainly beat humans in a game of fixed rules, but the brain’s thinking is the result of hundreds of millions of years of evolution, especially the right brain’s image thinking, understanding art, humor, and can produce a variety of emotions generated by the heart. None of these ai’s will be well understood, at least for a long time to come.
However, artificial intelligence for human services and even replace some human jobs, is an inevitable result. When they serve for human beings, we should pay more attention to personal data security, privacy security, like the camera in the smart home, intelligent routing, do not be used illegally by others; When they replace some of our jobs, you have to worry about your job, and the competition between people will become more fierce. The great ai revolution could be the next industrial revolution.