Should we continue improving our intelligent machines? The answer to this question varies from one person to another. Some people consider AI as a blessing and a way to make our life easier while others think that AI is indeed changing our culture and economy but in a way that could destroy us. From my point of view, I do believe that AI is a good thing but we should develop security majors.
As Max Tegmark, the president of the future of life institute once said: “Everything we love about civilization is a product of intelligence, so amplifying our human intelligence with artificial intelligence has the potential of helping civilization flourish like never before — as long as we manage to keep the technology beneficial.“
So It is a great deal, to have machines do the work for humans from helping with complicated tasks, consuming less raw materials to produce more outputs to high precision. These are all to help humans and make them gain time, energy, and money. Many nations like Japan and South Korea depend on AI in their daily life with everything and anything. You cannot live in these countries if you don’t have a smartphone. It makes life easier in every possible way. But that does not mean that the machines based on AI have human-like minds. Humans created them.
Some researchers believe that the machines based on AI are not that smart, their intelligence is related only to the speed of the information processing. Some of the created machines still depend on human intervention whereas others are not. That’s why we should not take it lightly and consider building well-structured security programs to avoid any type of breakthrough while constructing the algorithms of intelligent machines.
On the other hand, all the benefits that humans get from AI cannot deny the fact that AI has risks too. Many researchers estimate that if you give a machine power, it’s going to be dangerous. Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, and many other big names in science and technology have recently expressed fear toward AI being too good at what it does and exceeds human beings.
In the long term, these intelligent machines might become cognitively better than humans and that will make them go out of control and mortals will be slaves of their own inventions. Intelligent machines could undergo self-improvement that will make them become super-intelligent or they can fall in the wrong hands and become programmed to do something destructive that will cause total chaos in the whole world. AI could be the prime mover of an artificial war that will never come to an end.
On the whole, to marshal a convenient response to the previous question ”Should we continue improving our intelligent machines ?” We should align our goals with the goals of the AI with ours before it becomes superintelligent. We should get empowered not overpowered by AI!
So it’s a yes for me, we can improve intelligent machines and keep them human-dependent.
