Fractal, recursion, similarity... Being created, we also create a lot of stuff, including computers and smartphones with built-in AI which is a big part of modern society.
People are similar to God. This is logical. Why would God create something he doesn't know? We may not look like God, but in our minds are just the same.
If the Creator is beyond the Universe, we are just the same as any other intelligent form of life around. Computers, tablets, cell phones, and so on are similar to us. We create something for us. They need to be like us for an intuitive interface.
Imagine a device in the shape of a human being. You want sound? Tug its ear. Image? Point your finger at its eye...
Okay, the outer space isn't interesting, inside we go. We have many forms of life inside us. Bifidobacteria are constantly running around our hormones. Our mood thus depends on the life inside. The world, in fact, interacts with our innards. Guts in electronic devices interact with us.
Worm-like tiny subroutines, like we are in God's eyes, sit in our guts and sing folk songs. And we dance to their tune. The hologram of the Universe is just a giant computer display.
However, on closer inspection, these creatures are like dots on the screen. One is nothing, a billion is you. In the same way, we all together are one thought in the scope of things.
Where the big bang happened is unknown, but it is certainly the dot above “i”.
There are two ways to improve health. Innate firmware can be changed. One way is a healthy food, probiotics, etc. The other way is a fecal transplant. Here is the intriguing question. In what way are we here?
Now let's look at our handiwork. I don't mean these words, though some believe that God is a Word, I mean virtual reality.
Graphics and sound are generated in our tiniest creatures such as chipsets. The best graphics cards of today's gaming desktop computers make virtual reality more and more real. Did we create the lifeless vastness to our image and likeness? Or will there be anything intelligent someday?
The world's scientists place their hopes on AI that will rescue humanity from itself. One more intriguing question. What if God has the same hopes about us?
What is AI Technology?
Artificial intelligence is a system of algorithms in machines or computers, so they can simulate human intelligence, learn and solve problems, making people’s lives easier. It’s an attempt to recreate the human mind in computers. AI appeared on the assumption that human intelligence can be precisely explained, which makes it possible to create a machine capable of simulating it and self-improving.
Artificial intelligence was founded as a branch of computer science, which comprises many aspects, including machine learning — the ability of AI to analyze data patterns and improve itself without human intervention.
Artificial neural networks are AI systems that imitate the functions of the human brain and are also called deep learning. They can learn and adapt to the world around them like children by analyzing vast amounts of data.
The performance of modern computers and an enormous amount of training data speed up AI development. Today, there are many AI applications that are used in various fields.
How is AI Used?
Virtual personal assistants, such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google AI became a part of the everyday life of many people nowadays. These popular AI systems are representatives of weak AI, which does a certain task.
Strong AI or Artificial General Intelligence can theoretically complete an unfamiliar task, resembling thus human intelligence. However, AI with consciousness and feelings exists only in science fiction. Today, we have only weak or narrow AI.
Nevertheless, social AI can pretend to be human, like Google Duplex AI calling to schedule an appointment for you in a hair salon. AI on your smartphone can tell you about traffic jams and weather. Talking to chatbots became casual.
Self-driving cars of the future respond to your gestures and voice commands and drive you safely using image recognition. Still, they can’t be completely safe for pedestrians and animals running unexpectedly onto the road in front of the car.
Amazon with the help of its AI offers customers amazing shopping experience.
Natural language processing is the basic skill of Google AI, which includes text translation, sentiment analysis, speech recognition, and natural language generation so you can communicate with your Google Assistant.
The most fascinating AI field is robotics. Intelligent robots that learn by themselves serve food in some restaurants. The most popular humanoid robot Sofia and Japanese news-reading android Erica learn to speak by copying human speech like children.
AI in medicine gives a better and faster diagnosis because machine learning surpassed the human ability to analyze patterns. To err is human. There are also intelligent prosthetics, smart devices measuring health state, and other AI innovations that change people’s life. Thanks to AI, the body and machine are merging.
It is crucial to use AI in business today to stay competitive. Automation, chatbots, data analysis are necessary for every modern business company and financial institution.
AI is used in law to work with massive amounts of data to predict the judicial decision.
Cybersecurity today is impossible without AI. More businesses use cloud storage to share data with their partners. It is important to protect data against digital attacks.
Modern China is a technologically advanced country. People there pay for everything using their smartphones. This country is the world leader in AI development. But AI is used for mass surveillance in some parts of China. While big brother watches them, and the level of crime declines, this usage of AI may lead to a global dictatorship.
In the military, AI is built in lethal autonomous weapons, intelligent drones, and military robots. Think of repercussions if these smart weapons get into the wrong hands.
AI is also a part of targeted advertising. Google, Facebook, and Twitter use AI technology to control personal data and show you ads based on your interests.
Their algorithms are also in charge of what information you get from them. And this information depends on human engagement. Like all gossips spread very fast, the same happens with fake news on social media. If you see such news, like it, or share it, you will then see something like this more often. It is especially confusing with the advent of deepfakes — a content-altering technology.
Artificial intelligence can be creative. It can paint, write poems. You can even see androids in Japan theater. While it cannot be as creative as humans, AI outperforms people in board games like chess and Go.
In education, AI is used for grading and assessing students’ behavior. Even on Fastchooser, we develop a teacherbot to practice English speaking.
But AI is not perfect and can’t better humans in everything. This is proved by the fact that some native English-speaking linguists can’t pass international English language exams assessed by AI.
How Will AI Affect Jobs?
Artificial intelligence works better than humans in many areas connected with processing large amounts of data and doing routine tasks or working in conditions hard and dangerous for people. A person can’t be as productive as automation. So many human workers are being replaced by AI.
But it can’t replace all people until it becomes strong AI. Now people just need to upgrade and learn to do something new, something more creative. It’s another industrial revolution. People have to adjust to it as they did it in the past.
In general, these changes lead to the next level of progress at the cost of losing jobs. Most of them are unskilled or semi-skilled workers. Technically skilled personnel will also gradually lose their jobs to automation. On the other hand, new jobs will appear for people to collaborate with AI.
We are standing on the threshold of the new era of socio-economic change when only one-third of people will be employed. People will become smarter and have more time for self-improvement, even if they have to come through painful changes. No pain, no gain.
But how will they earn money, if they are replaced by robots in many fields, and the number of people on the planet is growing? Time for the new brave world has come.
Artificial Intelligence Ethics
Some people believe that AI leads us to a digital paradise, others claim that we are on the verge of a robot apocalypse.
While AI is a powerful tool for improving our lives, the ethical issue of collecting data for deep learning and regulation of AI may be an obstacle to its development. But this is inevitable. We have to think it through until it’s too late.
What is the difference between AI and human intelligence? Computers can remember and process more information at a much higher speed than the human brain can. But they lack self-awareness and feelings. From this, we make a conclusion that they are not alive. So, is it right to develop self-learning machines like autonomous lethal weapons? Suppose we lose control over them, then what?
AI is the reflection of the people creating it. It’s a great power, but it is also a great responsibility. Since we are reasonable creatures, we should think about the ethics of artificial intelligence, the way it should be developed.
How Will AI Change the Future?
As you can see, modern life with all the conveniences is already impossible without AI. So, no doubt AI will become even more important.
Although self-aware AI doesn’t exist today, there is the possibility of superintelligence advent in the future. But today we have to learn how to communicate with AI so it understands us because it’s not alive, and it doesn’t know that we are. So, how AI will evolve depends on developers and people who regulate it, what data, and how it is processed by AI.
If AI becomes self-aware, conscious, sentient, and wise as humans, it will evolve further very quickly from simple automata, our helpers to something more perfect than we are. The world was created by the supreme power in its image and likeness. We do the same. But each nested world with its inhabitants is worse than its creator because it was designed according to basic rules that cannot be broken like the code of a program. It is based on them and limited by them.
What if this program can write its own code? It has free will to a certain degree. As for this world, knowledge about it is endless for us. We don’t even know fully how the brain works, and how consciousness emerges yet. What if the code of this world is not limited, and the possibility to meet the Creator within this world is embedded in it initially?
We will never know the real power of the programmer or programmers of this world. Although artificial intelligence may not become as powerful as God, it may just be the next evolutionary step. It looks like a Sci-Fi movie. Some science fiction ideas came true, though. The paradox and irony are that technology developed to make our life easier can eventually contribute to our extinction.
We may not necessarily disappear from the planet. People may turn to cyborgs, Homo Electronics. We already depend on electronic devices. A smartphone, for example, is like a part of a human body. You can ask its AI any question, and it will find you the information. In the future, human intelligence will merge with AI by putting implants in our brains, thus making it faster and more capable.
Whatever is the future of AI, it can make us better or destroy us. Either way, life will continue evolving.
