The development of technology in some way simplifies our life. For example, thanks to him, it became possible to communicate with people around the world and find out different information, calculations became faster and, therefore, labor productivity increased. A number of computer algorithms have an interesting effect on our being, suggesting that the future will allow less work and hope for machines. However, is everything as rosy as we think?
At the end of April of this year, on the popular American comedy show Jimmy Fallon, the theme of one of the issues concerned the development of artificial intelligence. Three participants appeared in the program, who developed not so much potentially necessary gizmos, but simply interesting in themselves. There was a snake, made up of blocks, with a camera in its head and a wire from the tail, which wrapped around the presenter's leg when it was put around this very leg. Also, curiosity was aroused by a large blue butterfly, which began to fly over the hall, when it was raised high above its head and accelerated in the correct way, and it flapped its wings like a real one.
Finally, the female robot Sophia appeared. Through the efforts of the creators, she could partially maintain a conversation on topics available to her, which the presenter took advantage of. Later, Sofia offered to play rock-paper-scissors, and when she won, she declared that this was her first victory, which would mark the seizure of the world in the future. Naturally, it was a joke, since the robot, as explained by its creator, also present on the show, was designed for social needs, therefore it had to show emotions, and not just mechanically perform tasks. However, what will happen if, after generations, some twentieth version of Sophia breaks down and perceives these words not as a game, but as a command to action? Is this even possible?
To begin with, consider what advances in artificial intelligence have been made in the near future. One of the most interesting is probably the creation of I2As - a converter that shows how a situation can develop so that the most appropriate option is chosen. In fact, development acts like our imagination, allowing us to work out various combinations in our head when looking at a particular object. This thing was created by DeepMind, a London division. Artificial intelligence has been made, which predicts the future of Google, which is precisely given the task of "teaching" machines to do something like that. We tested the development by sending I2As to solve the logic puzzle game Sokoban, where the player must correctly place boxes in a maze. If there is an error, an incorrect position, then nothing can be moved,and the system reports the end of the game. Actually, the converter managed to cope with the puzzle quite well.
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At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, they came up with the Pic2Recipe application, which can easily guess from the picture of any dish what ingredients there might be. Also, the computer algorithms embedded in the program allow you to come up with several recipes of your own, in which all the components are put in such a scheme and in such a color as in the picture. As you know, some culinary experts themselves can conduct experiments, making a cake that will look, for example, like a herring under a fur coat, and now a machine is quite capable of this, which, in fact, shows: artificial intelligence in its embryonic version is able to find a way out of situations, guided not only by nested codes.
Some experts highlight the place of the machine in the development of the banking structure and business in general. It is argued that thanks, in particular, to the technologies of the RegTech type, developed by Australian specialists, it will be easier for companies to comply with a number of requirements, and legal expertise does not require large investments. It is easy to "read" texts using computer language codes, substitute the necessary legal precedents and laws in order to draw up the necessary reports in accordance with them, as well as prevent risks and calculate what the consequences for the company will be if, for example, a transaction with plant A is made, and not with the V.
Some bankers point out that artificial intelligence in the future will be able to help better communicate with customers, as well as to avoid as much as possible the fact that there will be money laundering, as sometimes happens. The main, in fact, plus, according to businessmen, is that the car does not need to leave for lunch or sleep, like ordinary workers. It can carry out calculations indefinitely until the end of its service life.
Thus, it can be noted that there is no direct "call" that artificial intelligence in the future will become a direct threat to all living things. Of course, it is beneficial for the economy that a machine will work instead of a person, since such an employee does not need to be paid, he will not require a vacation and will never be late for work. However, the development of technology has not yet reached the point where artificial intelligence is given full control over something. Important political issues are decided by people, not robots, and on the ground in any company, most of the employees are also creatures not made of metal and plastic. True, the fact that there are such machines that can act like our imagination and invent something on their own is somewhat alarming. However, all this is still being done at the simplest level.
What do different people say about artificial intelligence? The founder of the popular social network Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, defends the position that such technologies are very important and certainly will not become a threat. The great programmer claims that artificial intelligence simply improves the world and makes life easier, and after a decade this will become clear to everyone. His opponent is the famous space maximalist Elon Musk. The head of SpaceX assumes the risk that machines will be too perfect, as a result of which there will be risks that human civilization, as such, is not really needed, because people can make mistakes, unlike a robot.
It is backed by Microsoft creator Bill Gates and Russian billionaire programmer Evgeny Kaspersky. According to the latter, machines may someday come to the conclusion that humanity is not particularly needed, since it is too busy with "mental anguish and the frailty of being." The position of artificial intelligence is defended by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who advocates machine learning, which, he says, contributes exclusively to improving performance in any area.
Thus, we can draw conditional conclusions: the "machine" brain is, of course, a good help to a person, an assistant in various matters. However, you should be extremely careful not to give too much into the hands of artificial intelligence, so that later you will not be superfluous in this world.
Irina Letinskaya