Will Artificial Intelligence Take Over Humans?
WILL ARTFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TAKE OVER HUMANS?
We have all witnessed the plot unfold as the AI-driven
robotic overlords slowly, surely and ruthlessly take over the human race.
However, in the movies, the human race always wins. We are not yet sure about
the outcome of the AI takeover if it happens in real life.Today the AI
technology is being used to perform tasks that range from trivial to
monumental. Whether it’s enhancing mobile photography with AI cameras or financial
asset management, AI has some truly amazing applications in various fields of
human life. But as the applications of AI increases, more and more people are
starting to wondering that it is going to erase the importance of human
skills and experiences in different tasks. What happens to the skills of a professional photographer when everyone
holding an enhanced AI camera needs to do is to point the camera and click?
What happens to the skills and intuitions of an experienced business man when AI is trained to predict stocks and help
people make decisions based on that? What happens
to a lot of hard work on studies to
become a well qualified teacher or a
professor when an AI robot will replace all of them to teach everyone and research
on everything by itself? Also what happens to
the doctors when AI will replace the
doctors to do every medical activities?
Some will argue that AI only helps the users to reap
the benefits of having years of experience without having to struggle for years
to gain that experience. But what happens to the fundamental human values when
that experience gaining process is removed entirely, and nothing stands between
the user and gaining the optimal results?
If we keep all these questions in our mind, then the
entire “AI will replace human beings” premise does not seem that ridiculous.
However, to confirm, or reject that thought, we really have to get to the
bottom of the visibly positive and negative effects of AI on society.
AI Automation
AI has also entered our homes and turned it into a
smarter household. The AI-based smart home systems are really good in
reducing the power consumption and
controlling the carbon footprints of a household. The AI-based facial recognition
systems are also helping the authorities to deal with criminals in an advanced
manner.There are many, many other positive uses of Artificial Intelligence. But
in short, we can definitely say that the positive sides of AI do not only span
across different industries but also affects the individual lives of everyone
attached to those industries.
Since there is a positive side also there is a
negative side as well. Starting from AI bias to social media manipulation, AI
is affecting society in ways that were previously unimaginable.
Source: Google
The introduction of AI automation has brought about a serious shift in the modern human lifestyle. The tasks that once required manual labor, can be done without having to live a finger today. This means that users today have more free time and they are looking for new experiences to fill that void. However, this search for new experiences is easier for some people than others, which has some serious social and psychological impact on society.
One of the most glaring examples of the negative effects of AI would be the incident involving the a racist medical AI system putting millions of lives in danger. The racial bias of human society entered the AI through data sets used to train that AI system. This led to millions of black people suffering from their illness due to not receiving good enough treatment.Besides these, there are far more sinister impacts, such as social media manipulation, that is changing our point of view, the lack of privacy and security as is evident from China’s social credit system.The main problem with all these negative impacts of AI we don’t even think about these effects until they confront us. The negative effects of AI seem superficial when really it is working on a deeper level, changing the fabric of society as we know it.Will AI replace all industries and fields?
Until now we have this understanding that AI can be
used in a wide range of industries. But can it be used in all of them? Even
though AI IS disrupting multiple fields of studies and works, there are many
other areas where AI is not exactly that effective. Be it the Human Resource
manager of an organization, PR manager or an artist, there are fields that
require a greater amount of human sympathy, experience, and skills.
Despite all its possibilities, Artificial Intelligence
is still believed to be at its very first stage of development. All that we are
seeing today is just a precursor to a much smarter and intelligent version that
is yet to come. And that’s why we can rest assured, as today’s AI still has not
achieved the kind of skills needed to accomplish a lot of jobs.Jobs such as
writing and editing, graphic designing, teaching are yet to be automated, all
because these jobs need the human touch. Sure with AI-based systems, these jobs
can be made easy. But AI can not completely take over these tasks, not yet.
Academic fields too are exempt from the AI automation trends. Tasks such as
grading papers can be assigned to the AI system, but when it comes to teaching
or researching, the field still requires human influence.
AI vs Humans
If we have to finally answer the question whether human
beings to be replaced by AI systems, we would need to understand that there are
fundamental differences between the human psyche and Artificial Intelligence
system.
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