Many people have a rough sketch about what is AI. Well AI as above is an ARTFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Artificial means manmade. Something made by human beings. Now intelligence is a total different concept. We always talk about a person’s IQ level. Ever wondered how this IQ level is calculated. A known fact is that the great scientist of our century Albert Eienstein had the best IQ ever. Yes…I know that he has created E=MC2 so he will definitely have the best IQ. Lets come to the point now, IQ is the rate at which intelligence develops and it varies from the age of a human. Intelligence is the key factor over here. So if we ask ourselves whether machines can have IQ? The answer is a NO at least for now. Nobody knows what the future has for us.
I have read it in an article that after World War II, a number of people independently started to work on intelligent machines. The English mathematician Alan Turing may have been the first to put the idea of AI. He gave a lecture on it in 1947. He also may have been the first to decide that AI was best researched by programming computers rather than by building machines. By the late 1950s, there were many researchers on AI, and most of them were basing their work on programming computers. So I think that we all should thank Alan Turing for giving us an idea of AI. We now have a different subject to talk on which is AI rather than the same old topics on softwares.
There is a very thin line between AI and human beings. Recently I read a news in an article that compared human brains with machines. The article said that to make a machine equal to that of a human brain we need a hard disk of the size of NEW YORK city. So imagine what a fantastic hard disk we have in our body and thank god that we don’t have to format it now and then. There are impulses that run through our brain when it functions. So as Alan Turing said we don’t need to build such machines but we surely need to code such type of programs. AI will be able to understand a human and work accordingly. Imagine that you program AI to do all your work and you sit with comfort and enjoy.
In one of my previous posts I have written about NANOBOTS. So now I have a name for my NANOBOTS, its AI –ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. There is not more difference between my NANOBOTS and AI. But I guess my nanobots are pretty handy. I mean no external hardware present here when nanobots are working inside your body.
AI is surely going to play some important part in our lives in the future. But as the saying goes, ”Every coin has two sides”. Our AI is not going to be all LOVING, CARING, etc. Just the fact that AI is going to be similar to a human being gives me the creep. I mean if people have AI why the hell then they will need other people. If a machine walking and laughing with you obeys all your orders why would you need a wife that will be always behind. And the thing that your wife can do AI cannot. Also you need to program it first then it will work. But if you don’t know how to program or use it then AI will only be a piece of metal in your house. The above example is the fun part ,But think about the business point of view. If I am a BOSS of a software firm and instead of getting reasons like illness, etc from my employees, I will just buy some 10 AIs from the dealer and TA……TA…..TARAH all my work is done. No AI falls sick. Work is completed before the deadline. What more do you want?
Many movies have been made on AI as the subject. In fact the movie AI: Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg in which the sixth sense fame child actor Haley Joel Osment played the leading role sure did speak about the AI in an human form. It was a fantastic movie. Ok…movies aside but there is one thing. As we humans are going to make AI. How can it replace us? Till the word ARTIFICIAL is attached with AI we are on the safe grounds. But when the word gets removed and only INTELLIGENCE remains then its bad for us.
But I still say that making an AI fully functional like a human being is IMPOSSIBLE. I know the thing that even the word IMPOSSIBLE says that ,”I M POSSIBLE” but look at the facts then you will understand that may what the AI can do ,it will never replace HUMANS. But when an AI will replace a human then it’s the DOOM DOORS opening for us.
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