Artificial Intelligence (AI) Won't Kill Humans - Assures Google
The artificial intelligence (AI) ain't killing humans and destroying humanity, Google's Mustafa Suleyman has assured. Suleyman was speaking at the Bloomberg AI 2015 conference. Calling AI a highly powerful tool that that 'we' will control, Suleyman said that they are working on artificial intelligence to empower the humanity and not to destroy it. All the skeptics may now relax for there won't be a terminator man/machine out there hunting for you.
The count of people who believe that the artificial intelligence will one day mature and turn evil is growing. The moment AI goes out of human control and computers begins deciding everything on their own, they may turn bad and get rid of their biggest opponent - humans. Those concerns come not only from general public; but from the likes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and even Stephen Hawking.
Suleyman is the found of a London based company 'DeepMind', which was acquired by Google last year for about $400 million. 'Google Deepmind' is reportedly working on making computers more intelligent for Google; and we already are seeing the results. Google had recently demonstrated atGoogle I/O 2015 @ California - May 28, 29; Only For The Lucky Ones conference, the super-smart 'Major updates for Google Now and Maps announced at Google I/O' service that can guess the context and make intelligent suggestions.
I'm Your Nice Little Friend, Human
Google also had demonstrated how the Google Photos app could figure out which of your photos have you eating ice cream. It could easily search for photos you took while bungee jumping; without you having to manually tag the photos for it. That's artificial intelligence getting smarter.
DeepMind got noticed world-wide after it demonstrated how its computer outperformed humans while playing Atari games. The computer could learn from mistakes and even pass on its learning to intelligently play the next game. Suleyman called it a breakthrough that the AI world had not seen in recent times.
Google DeepMind team is confident that the AI will help solve lot of interesting problems and the fear about AI is simply a distraction. We'd like to hear from our fellow engineers their thoughts on artificial intelligence and its potential to be a serious threat to humanity.
Recommended Read: Robots Learn To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos.
Source: Google: The artificial intelligence we're working on won't destroy humanity | Business Insider India
The count of people who believe that the artificial intelligence will one day mature and turn evil is growing. The moment AI goes out of human control and computers begins deciding everything on their own, they may turn bad and get rid of their biggest opponent - humans. Those concerns come not only from general public; but from the likes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and even Stephen Hawking.
Suleyman is the found of a London based company 'DeepMind', which was acquired by Google last year for about $400 million. 'Google Deepmind' is reportedly working on making computers more intelligent for Google; and we already are seeing the results. Google had recently demonstrated atGoogle I/O 2015 @ California - May 28, 29; Only For The Lucky Ones conference, the super-smart 'Major updates for Google Now and Maps announced at Google I/O' service that can guess the context and make intelligent suggestions.
I'm Your Nice Little Friend, Human
Google also had demonstrated how the Google Photos app could figure out which of your photos have you eating ice cream. It could easily search for photos you took while bungee jumping; without you having to manually tag the photos for it. That's artificial intelligence getting smarter.
DeepMind got noticed world-wide after it demonstrated how its computer outperformed humans while playing Atari games. The computer could learn from mistakes and even pass on its learning to intelligently play the next game. Suleyman called it a breakthrough that the AI world had not seen in recent times.
Google DeepMind team is confident that the AI will help solve lot of interesting problems and the fear about AI is simply a distraction. We'd like to hear from our fellow engineers their thoughts on artificial intelligence and its potential to be a serious threat to humanity.
Recommended Read: Robots Learn To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos.
Source: Google: The artificial intelligence we're working on won't destroy humanity | Business Insider India
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Shreyas SuleCould AI be potentially dangerous to humans one day? Yes of course. Should we stop developing AI? Hell no!
The well designed, highly monitored and extremely intelligent application with its advantages simply outnumber the "potential" wrong use of this technology. On other hand, AI is being used and will be aggressively developed to prevent other threats to humanity such as diagnosing diseases, predicting natural/man made disasters, wars, terrorist activities, etc. -
Anand HebbalWell, it all depends where you put the AI. If you use it to take decisions in a war like situation, anything can happen. It can be misused, or if there is a bug, it can take catastrophic decisions.
Peaceful application as in diagnosing diseases, predicting natural/man made disasters, I do not see any problems. -
Kaustubh Katdare
The problem ain't so simple. I think the basic question is how 'intelligent' can we make these machines. What you're saying is the current level of AI; which is not smart enough to decide its own actions and understand right / wrong / good / bad.hebbalAWell, it all depends where you put the AI. If you use it to take decisions in a war like situation, anything can happen. It can be misused, or if there is a bug, it can take catastrophic decisions.
Peaceful application as in diagnosing diseases, predicting natural/man made disasters, I do not see any problems.
The real concern is that if the AI continues to develop to a point where it becomes self-aware; things would go out of our control. Remember, AI will have much more thinking capability, memory, access to machines (thanks to IoT) because everything's connected.
It'd be too massive for us to control it.
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