The Future Is Here!!

AGE OF ULTRON?

“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.” —Claude Shannon

Have you guys ever had a thought about how humans civilized from the invention of fire, hunting naked, eating raw meat… to an age of Supercomputers and Humanoids? Human kind has travelled and suffered a long way in order to achieve this . This journey is not only the story of technological advancement but also the story of the urge of men to thrive in the future!

• What is intelligence?

Basically intelligence of an organism can be defined as the basic instincts that it shows towards the naturally or technically occurring problems which it may face. Intelligence can sometimes also be defined as the ability of an organism to adapt with the new circumstances they are going to face.

• Artificial Intelligence

How can a good movie spectator forget about James Cameron’s “Terminator”, a cyborg(humanoid) programmed from future who travels in to past for his mission to be accomplished! This blockbuster starred by none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted the advancement robotic field can achieve in the future in the year of 1984 itself!

Artificial Intelligence(AI) is the major advancement through which we are passing through these days.. According to computer science “Artificial Intelligence” can be said as the intelligence shown by machines or computers in contrast to human intelligence. Colloquially AI can be said as the machine’s ability to mimic the actions or thoughts that humans are associated with.

• History

Alan Turing, the world famous English mathematician can be called as the man who stands as a visionary to Artificial Intelligence. During second world war Turing led a group of scientists and mathematicians whose duty was to decipher the enemy message signals. During this time in the year of 1945 he put forward an idea of computers which could learn from experience as well as solving problems through use of guiding principles. He called this process Heuristic problem solving. Turing did not publish this paper, and many of his ideas were later reinvented by others. For instance, one of Turing’s original ideas was to train a network of artificialneuronsto perform specific tasks, an approach described as connectionism.

Even though AI is only shown as robots with human intelligence in the films AI can encompass anything from search algorithms to automated weapons. The AI technology that we commonly use now a days are limited to iris recognition in mobile phones and automatic driving cars and drones. There are some who question whether strongAI will ever be achieved, and others who insist that the creation of superintelligent AI is guaranteedto be beneficial. AT this stage scientistrecognize both of these possibilities, butalso recognize the potential for an artificial intelligence system tointentionally or unintentionally cause great harm. They believe the ongoing research today will help us humankind to better prepare for and prevent such potentially negativeconsequences in the future, thus enjoying the benefits of AI while avoiding pitfalls.

• How can Artificial Intelligence be harmfull?

The researchers today believe that AI unlikely exhibit any human emotions such as love or hate so there isno chance to consider the AI to become benevolent or malevolent.

• AI which is programmed to do devastating duties:

Autonomous weapons are a kind of artificially programmed system that is programmed to kill. In the hands of the wrong person, these weapons could easily cause mass casualties. Moreover,an AI arms race could inadvertently lead to an AI war that also results in mass casualties. To avoid being thwarted by the enemy, these weapons would bedesignedto be extremely difficult to simply“turn off,” so humans could plausiblylose control of such a situation. This risk is one that’s present AI, but grows as levels of AI intelligence increases.

• AI technique which is programmed for beneficial activities,but it gains a destructive property:

This can happen whenever the AI program fails to achieve the function given by us or dueto a mistake in the extremely difficult programme. If you ask an obedient intelligent car to take you to the airport as fast as possible, it mightget you there chased by police patrolsand after being hit for a couple of times, doingnot what you wanted but literally what you asked for. If a superintelligent system is tasked with an ambitious geoengineering project, it mightwreak havoc with ourecosystem as a side effect, and view human attempts to stop it as a threat to be met.

Literally we can say that AI has paved the way to future for us. In other way Artificial Intelligence not only opens the door to the future, but also can be an example of the deadliest creation ever if it falls in wrong hands or when there occurs a mistake. So let’s wait and watch for our superintelligent robot brothers to be born and to work along with us shoulder to shoulder.

LET THE SCIENCE EXPAND!!