When ever the topic of artificial intelligence comes up the first thing that comes to mind is "Skynet." In the movie "Terminator", artificial intelligence has become to advanced that it decided the world would be better off without people. In a similar fashion, the short story that later became a movie "iRobot" displays how an artificial intelligence eventually came to conclusions that were dangerous for mankind.
Websters' dictionary defines artificial intelligence as "the power of a machine to copy intelligent human behavior." I believe it is slightly more than that. I would like to define it as the "the power of a machine to make decisions that are not pre-defined."
In Websters' definition we can say that a program that nearly asks a question and provides a limited number of responses in artificial intelligence. For example, the site http://en.akinator.com is a 20 questions game where the makers have built an elaborate database that can narrow almost anything down in 20 questions. But this does not display the computers ability to think. All of the decisions are pre-defined.
Siri is a much better example of artificial intelligence. Siri can't take over the world or exterminate humans in anyway, but the more people use Siri the better Siri can provide answers and understand people. The developers at Apple designed her to be able to increase her intelligence and become more useful on her own.
I don't believe we will end up with some kind of Skynet and artificial intelligence can be very useful and helpful. It provides us with many tools and ways to increase our knowledge. Maybe someday we will see a significant improvement in the medical industry as a result of artificial intelligence.
Very informative post. I like how you went into detail about popular examples of what we envision AI to some day be like, except with less people killing. you also should take a lot at the formatting of this post. there are some weird indentations here,have of the text has different fonts, and some the text is white letters on a white background, making it impossible to read.
ReplyDeleteHi Andrew,
ReplyDeleteI love Terminator! It shows me many author's aspects in those unsolvable theories such like future, AI or even fate.
And I would say thanks for you nice blog. I have learned a lot of AI from your blog. The instance you used is very easy to understand and it gives us a concrete thought of what AI really is and how it works.
For improving I think you can include more point of view from yours because you know that AI is very “argumentative” and "potential". Anyway it was a good post!