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If there is one
thing that can be said with certainty about the fascinating field of Artificial
Intelligence (AI), it has to be an unequivocal acknowledgement that AI is on the
cusp of opening possibilities that the human civilization has not experienced before.
To get a flavor of what's coming, lets take a quick look at three intriguing stories.
The first story comes from Boston Dynamics, a US company pioneering the field of robotics. Since the last few years, they have been working on the development of Atlas, an autonomous robot or humanoid. A few months ago, they released this video showing Atlas autonomously doing Parkour. This is not a special effect in a Spielberg movie. It's for real and its implications in military, industry, law enforcement etc. are not hard to see.
The second story is more thought-provoking. Go to this website and you will see the face of a person. Looking at the face you might think - 'so what's so great about this face ?'. The thing is that this person does not exist ! This face has been entirely created by AI ! And while you are still grappling with intrigue, China has already started using this to broadcast News using world's first AI generated digital news anchor who can work 24x7 all 365 days a year without salary!
The third story might warm the hearts of all those who are trying (maybe unsuccessfully) to get rid of those extra pounds acquired with nutritional support from the likes of McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut. Well you can forget listening to the doctors now - the A.I. Diet , generated specially for you by an AI algorithm, is here and you might quite like what it advises you!
With all these remarkable possibilities that AI is opening up, we are now entering what many people are calling the algorithm economy. An interesting article titled How AI Will Change Everything in 2019 further brings out some interesting insights into this fast changing landscape.
We are truly at the cusp of something transformational that is likely to transfigure the world like never before. In fact I would like to stick my neck out to say that in a few years time, we will be embracing World 2.0 which is going to alter many existing paradigms in ways that have not been imagined before. This transmutation is unstoppable but it is, by no means going to be easy.
In part 2 of this post, I will highlight some societal concerns related to the rise of Artificial Intelligence.
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One key
technology that is powering a number of exciting AI applications is Artificial
Neural Networks or ANN. While understanding ANNs is not exactly intuitive, I
invite the reader to watch this
wonderful video for a good conceptual overview of ANN and deep learning.
Dear Sir, thank you for the blog post.
ReplyDeleteAI is rapidly gaining importance because of its advantages but we shouldn’t overlook the disadvantages of it. As already mentioned in the article “How AI will change everything in 2019” , cybercrimes are increasing exponentially with the advancement of AI.
Atlas robot would be helpful in military, industry, law enforcement etc. but the question is would it not be helpful for terrorist activities.
Laying off people would become trivial in comparison to the unknown and unprecedented challenges that AI would pose.
In the article ‘Good News: A.I. Is Getting Cheaper. That’s Also Bad News’, we can see the other aspect of AI (and dual-use technologies).
Dear sir, thank you for this post.
ReplyDeleteAI is changing everything..And in my opinion the best use of it is better forecasting of natural disasters like floods etc. It will help to rescue many lives. The use of AI in health monitoring is also beneficial. But what happen if there is some error in the programming of the AI in the field of Healthcare.