Artificial Intelligence (AI) in simple words refers to the ability of machines or computer systems to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. It is a field of study and technology that aims to create machines that can learn from experience, adapt to new information, and carry out tasks without explicit programming. AI refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions.
In 1956, the word "Artificial Intelligence" was first adopted by American Computer scientist John McCarthy at the Dartmouth Conference. Ten years later in 1966, researchers emphasized developing algorithms which can solve mathematical problems. Joseph Weizenbaum created the first chatbot this year, which was named as ELIZA.
The first AI winter happened between the years of 1974 and 1980. AI winter refers to the time period where computer scientist dealt with a severe shortage of funding from government for AI researches. During AI winters, an interest of publicity on artificial intelligence was decreased.
In the year 1997, IBM Deep Blue beat the world chess champion, Gary Kasparov, and became the first computer to accomplish winning against a human being. Here we are starting to see the strong potential this machine is starting to have and gaining more recognition.
AI didn’t come into the Business world till the year 2006. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Netflix also started using AI. From this point forth, AI as we know it has continued to rapidly evolve and has begun to quickly take over our world.
Some examples of AI today are chess-playing computers and self-driving cars, that are all heavily based on deep learning and natural language processing. There are several examples of AI software in use in daily life, including voice assistants like Siri and Alexa and face recognition for unlocking mobile phones that many of us use without even realizing.
AI software mimics human brain function to assist society in advancing with the digital revolution. AI systems perceive their environment, deal with what they observe, resolve difficulties, and take action to help with duties to make daily living easier.
Some positive ways that growing AI technology are effecting society today, is that this technology reduces human error, its available 24/7, it can handle repetitive tasks, and its fast and efficient. It is quite possible that we could use AI technologies to improve people’s health and longer lifespans by creating better prosthetics, helping in finding cures for cancer, or by making organ donation no longer necessary by using small, intelligent machines to replace failing organs.
Mentally, AI could take a lot of stress and small tasks off our brains, creating more brain space for us to do and think about the things we really enjoy. Socially, it can make us even more connected to other people than we are now, creating positive communities of people around the world, and again, if we don’t have to worry about many of the small, difficult, individual things in life, we will have more time to engage with others.
On the contrary, many people, including myself, believe that there are far more negatives to AI invading our society. It’s costly to implement, it can’t duplicate human creativity, and people can become overly reliant on it.
The most immediate effects are likely to be experienced at the workplace, with many people losing their jobs to automation. In a new report, investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts that up to 300 million jobs worldwide could become automated.
The rise of technology capable of generating convincing fake content is also raising more concerns. As it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between what's real and what's fake, people could be use this technology to amplify disinformation online.
One thing AI has proven to be very good at is enabling the measurement and manipulation of people. If we live our lives through relying on the fact that “AI does it better,” or shy away from thinking on our own because AI claims to be at a higher standard, or do not take independent action because AI calls it risky, our lives will not improve.
Looking at the history of AI and how quickly is has evolved, I expect nothing less for our future ahead. There are plenty of concerns that come with this, but when looking at the effort of researchers to make AI a positive impact, I am very eager to see what type of world awaits us.
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