AI

Rule number 9: AI does not exist… right now. AI is all that anybody talks about, with good reason too. The introduction of true AI technology will potentially have large negative impacts. Some people believe that this technology has already come out. They look at things like Alexa and say, “look it listens to you and can respond to request accurately, Isn’t that scary??” No, because this is not true human intelligence. This is simply a series of complex programs intended to mimic human intelligence. But in reality the programs behind Alexa can be boiled down to simple if else statements. I don’t believe that the AI in Alexa or any other form of AI is actually artificial intelligence. In order to be an artificial intelligence in my opinion, a program has to decide what it wants to do. Right now, no matter how complex the thinking of an AI is, it still has one task that it was told to accomplish by a human. Once a program is run and the AI chooses what it wants to do (not out of a pre-selected group of acceptable actions like move a random number of spaces in a random number direction), them AI will officially be here. Of course, once this does happen it might spell the downfall of humanity because it will be able to learn faster then any of us could control it.   Keep in mind I’m not downplaying the impact of the “AI” on the market. These machines are fantastic accomplishments in the field of technology and I believe that more credit should be given to the programmers who created them, not the “intelligence” held inside them.