How to respond to the flow of AI

In the heart of millennials, there is a Pandora’s Box filled with anxiety, sadness and bewilderment. With the generation standing around the threshold of its youth, the box is unlocked more frequently and each negative emotion creeping outside leads to a crash on the physical and mental health. The continuous popularity of the artificial technology seemingly leaves an impact on the mind of millennials that it causes more confusion about future life. Therefore, recognizing AI’s value and character appropriately and preparing themselves for the tide of automation is an initial goal we need to fulfill.

The experts have made a prediction that at least 25% of each occupation category will be changed by automation in 2019, which means an enormous evolution in the society. What used to cost substantial time in the era without high technology becomes the mission of the intelligent machines. The efficient productivity would result in part of the citizens losing their jobs, which performs as one of the main sources of worry. However, a prognosis that 13.6 million of new careers will be created following the trend of the scientific revolution is published, which comforts people’s shivering soul. Time is an essential element demanding our attention in the progress of development and accomplishing more tasks within the finite time is a constant pursuit. AI opens the gate for a more efficient producing pattern and forwards the elevation of the level of our life by declining the burden of repeating work, such as entering the information into databases and investigating it for errors, from our shoulders and providing us with opportunities for newly burgeoning jobs.

To conform to the tendency of AI, preparing ourselves for the changing society and the employments that are distinguished from those in the past is a suggested decision. Millennials need to cultivate the courage for embracing the challenges, which distinguishes them from the passively working robots. Possessing the initiative rather than dealing with jobs under commands is an advantage when the generation departs from their shelters and face a broader world. Moreover, since people with rich experience and abundant information prevent themselves from being exceeded by machines and obtaining knowledge from experiments is an effective way for accumulating the experience, millennials are encouraged to study with the help of the trials to practice themselves and constitute their thoughts for the future life. In addition, we are required to cooperate with robots besides the teamwork with humans in the coming stream that AI wins a place in the manufacturing and marketing to promote the common development and maintain the harmony and solidarity of the society.

In conclusion, holding a rational recognition of AI technology and completing the self-preparing for the new chances is an advocated direction for pursuing a better life. Millennials do not need to worry about the influence of AI, because the anxiety values nothing except for injecting the pessimistic senses into their heart. Ensuring today the first day of our metamorphosis smooths our upset and light up the hope for the future.

References:

https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Robots-will-transform-not-replace-human-work

https://www.businessmodelsinc.com/machines/

https://blog.forecast.it/how-to-prepare-yourself-and-your-career-for-an-ai-future

Will Robots Replace Humans?

Robots has been improved to provide assistance to humans. With the revolution of science triggering the evolution in more spheres, people commence to consider objectively the value of AI technology and the world’s inclusiveness to it. The suspicion that robots might substitute our identities and social positions becomes an inevitable topic.

The majority of the public receive the information through the mass media. Nevertheless, they fail to access the accurate details of AI because most of the media are not professionals in this field. The current artificial production is invented for the primary target of helping to complete tasks exceeding people’s ability. They behave as an instrument which furnish us with support instead of replacing us. The lack of consciousness within the contemporary artificial objects, a prerequisite of autonomous perception and cogitation, impedes the progress of transforming them into humans. Being similar to the event of cars substituting carriages, the phenomenon that robots take over some of our jobs acts as a reflection of the revolution of emancipating ourselves from the monotonous and burdensome work and proceeding to more challenged exploration. Therefore, AI technology assists the society to make progression.

In the book “Out of Control”of Kevin Kelly, the complexity of the composition of an airplane and a cucumber is compared. Imagining the flinty outer case and the engine of numerous elaborate gears and metallic pipes, people approve that the construction of a plane requires complex operations. However, the section of a cucumber under the microscope astonishes us with thousands of cells sustaining its life, which are a present of nature. Retrospecting the history of human being, scientists has endeavored to create an entirely artificial life but has not achieved the goal. The miraculous nature is still a mystery beyond the capacity of our excavation. And as a natural creature, we possess a distinguishing feature that prevents the robots replacing us — life, which we are supposed to appreciate and treasure.

It is believe that there are some disadvantages existing in this artificial accomplishment, one of which is the difficulty interacting with real person. Individuals obtain the information, make analysis by relating it with the context, background and ambiance and respond appropriately. The whole procedure requires precise logical framework and flexible application of function, which is apparently an uneasy job for the researchers to figure out the method to  support the intelligent communication between robots and humans. The consequence leaded by this condition is that people reveal a preference for cooperating and exchanging ideas and perspectives with those who are of the same species as them. The situation performs as an evidence for people outstripping robotic creatures in some extent, and moreover reflects a challenge on the way of the development of science and technology which expecting more attempt and experiments.

In conclusion, robots are tools assisting us for the achievement of a better life. The deficiency of their perception and living feature make it difficult to become a person. And the defects of them illustrates that our effort on the improvement of them is demanded. Rather than showing anxiety about considering whether the robots will replace human, the action of preparing ourselves for the tendency that AI integrates gradually into our life is a decision with wisdom.

References:

https://tech.co/news/robots-replace-humans-work-2017-08

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewarnold/2018/03/27/why-robots-will-not-take-over-human-jobs/#794f745592fd

https://daily.zhihu.com/story/9130223

Potential Defects of The Artificial Machines

Will AI Destroy Human Beings?

Evaluating a phenomena requires people to observe and explore it from different fields and aspects. Similarly, when determining the values of  artificial intelligence on the society, we need to take it into thorough consideration. Therefore, the negative impacts of AI are nonnegligible as well as its aspiring qualities for a more reasonable and convincing analysis leaded by the subject that whether AI is worth the efforts contributed.

Firstly, humans gradually abandon the disadvantages of the primitive creatures and complete self-development to constitute the modern civilization by continuous pondering and endeavor. However, the artificial machines take a possibility to replace people at the position of making decisions and finishing their works. Imagine the occasion that the robotic servants prepare the breakfast, wake you up and bring the delicious dishes to your bed. The view might sound ideal at first. Nevertheless, it cannot withstand the examination of time. The slackness hides in the dark corner of heart as one of the natives of human. And since the productions of AI provide an opportunity to escape from the duties by playing our role, we may develop a inclination to permit the indolence to grow vigorously in our mind and flesh. As the aphorism of UK reveals, “Laziness is the leisure of a fool”, the incapability will possibly arrive at the door, sneaking into our shelters stealthily and corroding us like the vermin — a result of our excessive dependency on AI technology.

Secondly, the difficulty of controlling the information input into these mechanic objects indicates the potential weakness of AI. Microsoft had invented a robot, Tay, who possessed the ability to make conversations with humans in 2016. However, it was exposed to numerous insulting utterances, which caused the consequence that it learned to express in an offensive way and was retracted by the company. Collecting the data from the environment and studying it is a feature the scientists endow on the machines operated by AI technique. The capacity of learning is strengthened in recent years, and the time spent on the process of imitating the mindset and behaviors of a real person is declined (Deep Blue is an example). A problem occurs in this circumstance: how we handle the access of the smart creatures to the miscellaneous knowledge? Developing an intelligent machine is like cultivating a child in some extent. We have a trend of avoiding the children from being affected by the pessimistic aspect of the society. Then do we allow the new-born of AI to probe the means of being offensive and aggressive? It is required to reinforce the supervision of messages transmitted to the machines, including filtering the information at the intersection of them and the outer world, to guarantee the purity of their studying.

In conclusion, AI brings latent dangers to the robots’ influence on daily life and the management of data obtained by them. Placing the negative effects and advantages of AI on the opposite sides of the balance helps to estimate the total value of this technology and the level of our acceptance to it and, which is significant, build an appropriate perspective on it.

References:

https://futureoflife.org/background/benefits-risks-of-artificial-intelligence/?cn-reloaded=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

Gifts from AI Technology

Every attempt taken in the development of human civilization has an original purpose of improving people’s life in a positive way. As a technology to which numerous scientists have devoted their entire attention and energy, artificial intelligence is expected to open a gate for a more convenient and ideal life. According to the result published of the survey of Pew Research Center which inquiring the impact of AI in 2030, 63% of the participants show an attitude of hopefulness, which reveals the firm support to the technique and, in an indirect way, reflects that what we have acquired meet people’s satisfaction when estimating the value of AI objectively .

First of all, AI provides benefits in the economic field. Numerous solutions which aim at ameliorating the method of transportation are established as the result of the extension of the commercial trade, and one effective of those is applying AI technique on transmitting. The increasingly growth of the commerce causes the inducing of productions, which exceeds what the artificial management can afford. In this case, AI shows its outstanding achievements by being used in, for example, keeping the balance of supplying and demanding, arranging the category and quantity of the stock, coordinating the delivering of goods and maintaining the tools for transporting. In 2016, the German logistics company DHL investigated that the AI helped to enhance the efficiency in manufacturing, shipping and storing the commodity.

Secondly, people construct completely new medical method with AI. Taking care of the patients required a huge proportion of manual work in the past. However, several problems occurred when the aggravating trend of aging population invaded all of the countries in the world, among which the shortage of the medical personnel is an urgency. In recent years, the artificial paramedics participate in nursing the patients replacing the manual effort. In Japan, some robotic friends, who help the elders with the healing training, support the disabled people to walk and maintain the mental health of the patients, are put into service. The phenomena illustrates that AI’s effect on the medical care is being accepted gradually by the human society and there exists a possibility for it to become a main source of providing nursing method in the future.  

Thirdly, the influence of AI technology in advertising cannot be ignored. The artificial machines manages the producing and spreading of the advertisements by collecting individuals’ information such as the living habits and favors of sports, dressing and eating. They are developed with the ability to gather the data and analyze it using the algorithms programmed in their “brain”, like the Deep Blue constantly studied the strategies its opponent took in the chess-playing, and apply the result they obtain on creating the ads which satisfy the audience’s flavor. As for the advances of this technique, it guarantees the rapidness of filtering and sorting customers’ preference and helps the companies operating electrical business, such as eBay and amazon, discover the details of consumption to decrease the inventory. Moreover, it works on the some websites and social media inducing the rate of success of advertisements by making them more customized and creative.

The artificial intelligence brings enormous positive impact on our daily life and offers us more possibilities to access an ideal operation mode of the society. Based on AI, human beings have acquired substantial contented achievements, which constitutes part of the evidence to prove the advantages of accepting this neonatal technology.

Recognize AI

AI (Artificial Intelligence) grabs more heat compared to the past, which is the result of the development of this burgeoning technology. People are familiar with this word and a life connected intensely with AI as well.

The proposing of the Turing Test, which is a standard of judging whether a machine is intelligent by arranging it to have a talk with a person and avoiding its identification as the lifeless fake being recognized, became an important symbol in the development of AI. Since then, the initial thought and presumption of machines that possess the capacity of behaving as humans came out and was gradually tested and completed.

When John McCarthy established the scientific word “Artificial Intelligence” in 1956 during the Dartmouth Conference, the idea was treated formally in the academic field. The first generation of the scientists of AI technology appeared and made enormous contributions to bring it reality. The conference was no doubt a milestone, which illustrated the naissance of AI and the following improvement of it.

There was a gold period of the growth of AI from 1956. GPS, a program helping people to solve the problems, was invented. The template is used in numerous fields such as the proof of theorem, the geometric questions and the chess. Furthermore, the LISP was created as one kind of the programming languages. It contributes to the enhancing of AI and still has an influence on the recent work. However, the bottleneck occurred in 1974. As the result of the dissatisfying outcomes, the enthusiasm of specialists died down. People lost their curiosity and motivation in the repeating failures. Some of them gave up and left, leaving the flame of AI diminishing. The amount of government’s investment decreased shapely, which was a strike on the economic support of the technology. AI suffered from the winter of its development at that time.

Because of the acceptance of AI’s commercial value in 1980, the business in which the technique was applied expanded. Experiencing the threat of the personal computers invented by Apple in 1987, it again obtained the public attention because of an objective and rational recognition of the technology. AI had a rebirth! When the Deep Blue defeated the winner of the chess, scientists realized the value of AI and kept the passion in its explosion. Moreover, the study of Artificial Neural Network brought the hope of developing a machine that can exceed human beings. In the recent years, numbers of companies pay attention on AI and participate in the consummation of the technique. AI will be applied to more fields and will possibly develop more branches.

As a conclusion, AI experienced both the abyss and the heaven during its improvement and becomes a strong stream gradually. How do we prepare ourselves to the trend is a problem needing our considerations and decisions. We have to hold an appropriate recognition of this technique, including acknowledging its beneficial influences and harmful impacts, and choose our direction, which has an important meaning in the future development of human society.