Artificial intelligence: The use of computers to perform complex operations that would most likely be carried out by a human through the process of learning. These programs contain algorithms that can learn from a subset of data supplied to it and make inferences from that trained data to make decisions.
Artificial intelligence has it's on subsets such as Language Processing, Image Recognition, Deep Learning, Neural networks etc. For instance, imagine a program that answers questions you ask it, it can replace the role of a customer service agent.
Funny enough a lot of those programs exist today in form of chatbots and even our Nigerian banks have started using them. The application of AI is endless, it can be used for security purposes to detect crime in form of image processing, just imagine a CCTV camera that recongise if a crime has taken place and alert the immediate authorities with out the help of any human inference.
How about we talk about language processing, where computers can understand what you say to it and perform the necessary action, Mark's Javis for instance. Amidst all these great advancements that AI has brought, a lot of people still find it a scary path to take as a lot of ethnic issues surround it one being the loss of jobs it may create in the future.
Some people believe that with the advent of AI, a lot of humans will lose their jobs as they will no longer be any need for them when a computer can perform their duties. While this might be correct, it is also false and i will explain why i said so.
Yes it's true people might lose jobs, for instance the customer service rep might loss his/her job a customer service agent, but also it's false because it won't make humans obsolete but just shift their skills into other areas.
So if the Customer Service rep lose's his/her job, they can get a new role let's say AI service supervisors, where they can help supervise and feed the AI with information it can use to create patterns to be better. Just like teaching a child. Some other people also feel AI can spell doom for the human race, while i feel this is false, i also feel it's plain hilarious because of my doubts of that happening.
I know the future Elon Musks won't sit down well with this one, but it's true. Computers are always going to be GIGO; Garbage In Garbage Out no matter how complex they want to be. Even if per say a bad scientist comes and feeds these AI with evil ideas as you may put it those ideas won't go unnoticed in the testing phases of the robot's life, like i said GIGO.
Let's say i want my robot's to do house chores, and then an "evil scientist" feeds it with information to destroy the world, dudes during the testing phase it while try to destroy the world. Some might say what if an If Else or Set Timer has being set on the program, the good news is once it deviates from it's supposed pattern, it's plugs will be pulled out after all it's a code. That's my take on AI.
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