Reading about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Will AI outstrip human intelligence? Should we be excited about AI to enhance human mind? Should we fear rise of robot overlords? Deep Blue, 1st beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Heralded as a giant leap for computers. A bit of an excessive AI hype.
Since then, AI has come quite of age. It’s everywhere – in our car, on our phone, helping doctors diagnose diseases, perform critical surgeries. Help judges make sentencing decisions, predict aircraft break-downs. Getting more and more powerful, pervasive each day. But, humans are still in charge. Many people can’t wait for the day AI finally frees us from dirt, drudgery, danger. An AI utopia!
Indeed, AI might make humans obsolete. Already things AI can do faster, cheaper, safer, more reliably than humans. What if anything we can do, they can do it better? Wouldn’t that mean humans should just give way to machines?
AI is intended to be a tool, not a master. Perhaps, unbridled scientific curiosity, unrestrained economic greed, sheer stupidity could lead us down that path. A worthy question – whether, when, how to deploy AI. Does deployment of AI enhance quality of human life?
AI won’t do better art, philosophy, write stories! Clearly, there’s something special about human brain. Biological product of millions of years of evolution, finely tuned to do distinctively human things. So why do we think we can replicate in mere machines?
Don’t buy excessive hypes, not skeptical about potential that’s practically unlimited. Though, it’s a long way from figuring out how our brain produces consciousness, creativity, compassion. If we still can’t figure out how our brain does stuff, why think we’ll be able to program software to do it?
Even if it falls short of replicating full human consciousness, still has great ability to disrupt our world for better or worse, on a massive scale. Means we need to do some strategic, hard thinking about how to effectively welcome AI disruption.