The more and more I read about predictive analytics, artificial
intelligence, and machine learning the more excited I get about the possibility
of extremely cool technology and gadgets coming from it. However, there are risks and dangers to
artificial intelligence that we should all be acutely aware of. This article
made me stop to think about the other side of AI other than cool tech. While the idea of self driving cars and
planes sounds amazing, what happens if that technology gets hacked? The same way I’ve heard people discuss that
when the internet was created, they didn’t think of the harm it could do, just
the revolution and positives is something we should hope to avoid with AI.
There are a lot of ways that artificial intelligence can be
dangerous, other than it being hacked.
For example, autonomous weapons are AI.
That AI is programmed to do something devastating and if in the wrong
hands it could lead to unimaginable destruction. What if they get to the point where AI is
human-level intelligent? How will we be
able to predict how the machines will react?
It starts to feel very science fiction, but people thought the type of
AI we have now was decades away, so it is something that experts in the field
should really pay close attention to.
Very true, in as much as it sound exciting, the dark side of it is something to really think about. Good read, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing! Great point!
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