The impact of artificial intelligence on humanity
Subjects like intelligence and contionseness are rathar complex, let alone artificial intelligence. This relatively new field of computer engeneering is revoltionizing the way we use technology and humanity is getting closer and closer to achieving human like machine intelligence. But what are the consequences, the advantages and the dangers of this new technology?
A few decades ago, when the first computers were being developed, all the instructions that were supposed to be executed should be fed to the machine through some interface, like cables, cards, keyboards, etc., and it has been this way for a while, until computer scientists started coming up with ideas that could make computing look way more like human intelligence.
It wasn’t something totally new, because science ficcion had already had a glimps of those aspirations in books like “I Robot”. The new fact here is that actual technology was now being developed that could make all that ficcion stuff come to life. This has a lot to do with the exponetial growth of computing power and the shrinking of computer chips that made possible build very eficient machines that could execute a growing number of instructions in the same periord of time.
Currently, it’s possible to see artificial intelligence being used i a variety of places and equipments like personal computers, celphones and even cars and refrigeratos. Vacum cleaner robots can map a house and proceed with a very effective cleaning, for example. But humanity is still a bit far from what would be the great breakthrough of artificial intelligence: contiosness.
In fact, there is no evidence that machines will eventually develop constionsess, even though it is quite possible. As the variety of sensors conected to computers and the power of processing the data generated by those sensors increase, it’s likely that the whole internet will be capable of understanding the world and developing a mind of it’s own. That’s what scientists call singularity.
Once machines reach that point, it’s relatively difficult to predict what might happen from there. Will this generation of smart contions machines be our allies or will they be human damnation? That’s one of the fears concerning machine learning and artificial intelligente, but as a matter of fact, it seems unavoidable.