There are good reasons to be optimistic about AI research. It would be foolish to hold back the development of technology for the sake of possible dangers in the distant future. In the future of highly developed artificial intelligence, human beings may face an “identity crisis” : whether human beings are great or insignificant, and what is the meaning of their own existence. This may become a problem for mankind.
In 1950 Alan Turing’s landmark paper, “Can Machines Think? Bring a new subject for human beings – artificial intelligence. To prove whether a machine could think, he went on to invent the Turing Test, which is still used today.
However, until now, the only intelligence known to human beings is the intelligence of human beings themselves. It is not clear whether it is possible to make machines capable of consciousness, thinking and emotion, or how this will affect human beings. But that doesn’t stop scientists from working toward the goal of artificial intelligence.
In recent years, scientific and industrial interest in it has been greater than ever. In the past year and a half, Google has acquired more than a dozen robotics companies and is developing a totem of artificial intelligence, the driverless car; Last year, facebook opened a new ARTIFICIAL intelligence lab… Data show that AI has attracted more than $17 billion in investment since 2009, with more than $2 billion going to 322 companies with AI-like technologies last year alone.
Driven by technologies such as parallel computing, digital neural networks, cloud technology, big data and deep learning algorithms, the shape of ARTIFICIAL intelligence is emerging: It is neither a robot with a human-like consciousness, nor a superintelligence as claimed by the singularists (the moment when artificial intelligence is compatible with human intelligence), but a highly specialized “expert” applied in a narrow field of expertise, such as medicine, education, law, space and so on.
With the development of artificial intelligence comes a sense of panic that humans will one day be replaced by it. Neil Jakabstein, director of the AI program at Singularity University in the US, has long said: “To deal with the coming AI revolution, we need to keep improving ourselves in mathematical literacy, ecological literacy and especially moral literacy.”
Giiso, 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.
The development of science is always beyond our expectation. Careful assessment and good risk control are necessary before a technology is introduced, as is cloning, big data and gene sequencing. If humans succeed in building a supercomputer that doesn’t think like us, jakabstein argues, we’ll have to control it, like a child.
People and companies on the cutting edge have taken some steps to head off possible chaos. After acquiring Deepmand, a neuroscience-based AI company, earlier this year, Google set up an “AI Safety Ethics Committee” to ensure safe development of the technology.
There are good reasons to be optimistic about AI research. It would be foolish to hold back the development of technology for the sake of possible dangers in the distant future. But every time AI has successfully “copied” human behavior and abilities over the past 60 years, it has forced us to redefine ai and what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence, the closest thing to a human being, is a perfect object for our mental projection.
Ai’s impact on society is growing. With the development of artificial intelligence technology in the future, eradicating disease and poverty will no longer be a distant dream. Some say artificial intelligence could be “more dangerous than nuclear weapons”. But in the nearly 70 years since nuclear weapons were developed, the world, far from being destroyed, has entered a subtly more peaceful period. The peaceful use of nuclear energy is also contributing to the modern life of mankind.
In the future of highly developed artificial intelligence, human beings may face an “identity crisis” : whether human beings are great or insignificant, and what is the meaning of their own existence. This may become a problem for mankind.