By: Jared Garcia
Whether you’ve noticed or not, A.I., artificial intelligence, is everywhere. Its’ presence is so evident, ranging from our phones to our television, many humans are already theorizing about its’ future, about it taking control and becoming the superior species. While it may not be the plot of a big sci-fi movie yet, the foundation of A.I. is already in place.
One prominent feature of A.I. is already living through our cell phones. Highly successful companies like Apple or Amazon have trademarked names like Siri and Alexa to be known as the useful assistant for you, the consumer. With the call of a name, these ‘assistants’ can book an appointment or rapidly search up the directions to any location. Furthermore, just like these ‘assistants’, the technology of facial recognition has become even more broad, whether it’s to unlock your phone or to try on filters. Having these big tech companies use the facial recognition technology can be useful in collecting and identifying the mass majority of the population.
“Advancements in facial recognition are making the fingerprint obsolete.”, says Anthony Delgado, CEO and founder of Disrupt University and member of the Forbes Technology Council.
Although facial recognition was introduced to mainstream media as seemingly easy and fun (filters and unlocking phones) it can easily seep into another structures of society. Like Delgado had mentioned, the growth of facial recognition can expand the parameters of criminal justice. Being able to achieve a database of an array of faces can prove to be extremely useful, especially with the constant CCTV on the streets.
Transportation has also been widely transformed by A.I. Recently, improvements have been made in the development of autonomous cars. Of course in media like Hollywood movies, flying cars are usually the notable features included in a dystopian, futuristic movie, although it may be cheesy and corny, it is not too outlandish considering recent progress.
Delgado states,”Tesla now has over 300 million miles driven on autopilot, and all Tesla vehicles on the road today are only a software away from fully autonomous driving capability.”
Yet this rapid growth can be prove to be daunting to our society. At the rate it is going, it begs the question if we, humans, can actually deal with the changes it can bring. A.I. can completely transform the dynamics of our life, from medicine, media, engineering and entertainment.
On the note of Hollywood movies and media, it is also very common to see A.I. take on the form of androids and robots in works like Detroit: Become Human or Ex-Machina. The prospect of having a realistic, human looking robot/android inspires fear and awe in a majority of humans everywhere. It tends to bring up the issue of ethics and if we, as a society, are ready for the psychological effects. Many like my friend Lizette Garcia, are already expecting the immense consequence it will have on humans.
She says, “I do fear the expansion of A.I. due to its ability to expose information of people from online. These robots which is what I call artificial intelligence can learn so much about humans weakness and our strengths which can cause them to over smart humans and find a way to take over the world.”
Being fearful of the changes A.I. can bring is natural but Melanie Mitchell, professor of Computer Science at Portland State University, states otherwise.
“Today’s A.I. systems sorely lack the essence of human intelligence: understanding the situations we experience, being able to grasp their meaning.”
There is no denying that A.I. has introduced and inspired new methods and forms of improving our society. That being said, change is inevitable. It’s outcome is unknown but letting fear override any opportunity of growth is not beneficial. There is always a risk when it comes to new discoveries and inventions and besides, what wonderful thing didn’t start out scary?
Whether you’ve noticed or not, A.I., artificial intelligence, is everywhere. Its’ presence is so evident, ranging from our phones to our television, many humans are already theorizing about its’ future, about it taking control and becoming the superior species. While it may not be the plot of a big sci-fi movie yet, the foundation of A.I. is already in place.
One prominent feature of A.I. is already living through our cell phones. Highly successful companies like Apple or Amazon have trademarked names like Siri and Alexa to be known as the useful assistant for you, the consumer. With the call of a name, these ‘assistants’ can book an appointment or rapidly search up the directions to any location. Furthermore, just like these ‘assistants’, the technology of facial recognition has become even more broad, whether it’s to unlock your phone or to try on filters. Having these big tech companies use the facial recognition technology can be useful in collecting and identifying the mass majority of the population.
“Advancements in facial recognition are making the fingerprint obsolete.”, says Anthony Delgado, CEO and founder of Disrupt University and member of the Forbes Technology Council.
Although facial recognition was introduced to mainstream media as seemingly easy and fun (filters and unlocking phones) it can easily seep into another structures of society. Like Delgado had mentioned, the growth of facial recognition can expand the parameters of criminal justice. Being able to achieve a database of an array of faces can prove to be extremely useful, especially with the constant CCTV on the streets.
Transportation has also been widely transformed by A.I. Recently, improvements have been made in the development of autonomous cars. Of course in media like Hollywood movies, flying cars are usually the notable features included in a dystopian, futuristic movie, although it may be cheesy and corny, it is not too outlandish considering recent progress.
Delgado states,”Tesla now has over 300 million miles driven on autopilot, and all Tesla vehicles on the road today are only a software away from fully autonomous driving capability.”
Yet this rapid growth can be prove to be daunting to our society. At the rate it is going, it begs the question if we, humans, can actually deal with the changes it can bring. A.I. can completely transform the dynamics of our life, from medicine, media, engineering and entertainment.
On the note of Hollywood movies and media, it is also very common to see A.I. take on the form of androids and robots in works like Detroit: Become Human or Ex-Machina. The prospect of having a realistic, human looking robot/android inspires fear and awe in a majority of humans everywhere. It tends to bring up the issue of ethics and if we, as a society, are ready for the psychological effects. Many like my friend Lizette Garcia, are already expecting the immense consequence it will have on humans.
She says, “I do fear the expansion of A.I. due to its ability to expose information of people from online. These robots which is what I call artificial intelligence can learn so much about humans weakness and our strengths which can cause them to over smart humans and find a way to take over the world.”
Being fearful of the changes A.I. can bring is natural but Melanie Mitchell, professor of Computer Science at Portland State University, states otherwise.
“Today’s A.I. systems sorely lack the essence of human intelligence: understanding the situations we experience, being able to grasp their meaning.”
There is no denying that A.I. has introduced and inspired new methods and forms of improving our society. That being said, change is inevitable. It’s outcome is unknown but letting fear override any opportunity of growth is not beneficial. There is always a risk when it comes to new discoveries and inventions and besides, what wonderful thing didn’t start out scary?