I propose to consider the question "Can machines think?" We are heading into the future where this question won't matter as we all would know the answer to that as yes. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is technology and a branch of Computer Science that studies and develops intelligent machines and software. Artificial Intelligence is moving so fast, it sometimes seems almost "magical".
Self driven cars have arrived; Siri can listen to our voice and find the nearest movie theater; and IBM just set the "Jeopardy" conquering Watson to work on medicine, initially training medical students, perhaps eventually helping in diagnosis. Barely a month goes by without the announcement of a new A.I. product or a technique. Yet, some of the enthusiasm may be premature: as we still haven't produced machines with common sense, vision , natural language processing, or the ability to create other machines. Our efforts at directly simulating human brains remain primitive.
The futurists and inventors think true human-level A.I. will be here in less than two decades. Even if we consider double the time, especially given how the little progress has been made in computing common sense; the challenges in building A.I. , it would take about 4 decades. But a century from now, nobody will much care how long it took, only what happened next. It's unlikely that machines will be smarter than us before the end of the century- not just a chess or trivia questions but at just about everything, from mathematics and engineering to science and medicine.
There might be a few jobs left for entertainers, writers, and other creative types, but computers will eventually be able to program themselves, absorb vast quantities of new information, and reason in ways that we carbon-based units can only dimly imagine. And they will be able to do it every second of every day, without sleep or coffee breaks.
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Hello Harsimran,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog post about Artificial Intelligence. The question at the beginning of your blog really made me wonder. I believe that machines could think. Artificial Intelligence has definitely gone a long way and has progressed quickly. Images that you have used for this post goes along with what you are writing. Overall, this post was a great read. I am looking forward to read your future posts.
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Hi Sam!
ReplyDeleteAwesome job on this post! It’s actually pretty scary to think about what A.I. could truly do but I really can’t wait to see more stuff happen in the future. Your writing is awesome and the flow between your paragraphs is nice. You writing is awesome, so keep up the good work.
Overall, great post! I really enjoyed reading it!