Future scope of Artificial Intelligence: Future or fate?

There is lot of debate over what is future scope of artificial intelligence and what is its fate. Here are all the answers!

Inside your cranium is the thing that does the reading, thinking, feeling. This thing, the human brain, has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack somewhere. It is to these distinctive capabilities that we owe our dominant position on the planet. Other animals have stronger muscles and sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. Our modest advantage in general intelligence has led us to develop language, technology, and complex social organization. The advantage has compounded over time, as each generation has built on the achievements of its predecessors.

Intelligence is rare and valuable community, and we should proud that we are having this with us. From the mysterious brain of Dolphins and the nature’s greatest Architect, Spider, to our beloved Siri, Alexa and driverless cars – intelligence is the most powerful and precious resource in existence. There are countless untapped opportunities for advance technologies to have significant impact on world.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Almost all of us encountered with this words anywhere in life. And also have some idea about it like we are quickly relate this to Google and it’s not wrong Google is widely using AI technology everywhere.

Artificial Intelligence refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that specifically programmed to think like human and mimic their actions. In simple way, AI is the programming given to the machine to work as Human mind such as learning, problem solving, thinking etc.

AI is ubiquitous now, used to recommend what should you buy, gives you suggestions on you tube, sort out the music list depends on your actions and mood, Alexa, siri, Google assistant, who’s photo, what’s in photo, spam detection Netflix, everywhere you found the AI. Depending on how machine compares with the humans in terms of versatility and performance, AI can be classified under one, among the multiple type of AI. Based on their likeness to the human mind and their ability to “think” and perhaps even “feel” like humans, there are four types of AI or AI based systems;

–Reactive Machines

Oldest form of AI and extremely limited capability. These machines do not have memory based functionality. So they do not ability to Learn. They could only be used for limited set of inputs. The popular example of this AI machine is IMB’s Deep Blue machine that beat chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1977

-Limited memory machines

In addition to having the capabilities of Reactive machines, they also capable of learning from previous data to make decisions. Nearly all the present AI applications are falls under this category such as Virtual Assistant, chatbots, self -driging cars, image learner etc. You might have heard about Deep learning, it also comes under this category.

– Theory of Mind

Above types of AI exist in abundance, the next two type of AI exist, for now either as concept or the research and work on them in progress. This are the next level AL system which researchers are currently innovating them. This category allows us to understand the entities interacting with by deeply their needs, emotions, belief, thought process and decisions making. Artificial Emotional Intelligence is already budding industry working under this category.

– Self- awareness

The final stage of AI development which currently exist only hypothetically. It refers to AI which, is self explanatory and evolving to be so alike to the human brain. Creating this type of AI would take decades and it will always be the ultimate objective of AI system research.

Next we’ll see the alternative system of generally used by various tech companies. Classification of technology into;

Artificial Narrow Intelligence –

It represents all.the existing AI including the most complex Deep learning and Machine learning system. This machine can do nothing more than what they are programmed to do and thus they are limited or narrow range of competencies. This sort of AI more commonly seen in the movies like HAL in 2001 or Skynet in The Terminator

Artificial General Intelligence –

Ability to learn, perceive, understand, and function same like human beings. The concept or technology of Bio mimicking is from this category. If you want to learn more about Bio mimicking, let me know in the comments I’m sure you will be interested to learn about it. Its quite interesting. This system makes AI just as capable as human replicating our multifunctional capabilities.

Artificial Super-intelligence –

This is utmost, by far the most capable form of intelligence on Earth. Probably mark the Everest of AI research. In addition of Bio-mimics capabilities like human beings, it also has huge memory, fast data processing and analysis and decision making capabilities. Many of experts believes that having such potential powerful machines may mark the fate of human existence, may threatens our way of life. Several movies bring up the topic and showcase AI. There is also a wonderful book on this titled “Superintelligence ” by Nick Bostrom.

Seeing the picture of current AI development, there is a long way to get the ultimate advance AI system. Computer power is growing, algorithms and AI models becoming more sophisticated and somewhere generating the unimaginable volume of data measured in billions of gigabytes everyday. As a result AI is tightly intervining into our life. “We are currently in the middle of a powerful new wave of Artificial Intelligence.” This states the promising future scope of artificial Intelligence.

If your brain is curious to know more about AI technology check out the following link. It has whole You Tube original series titled The Age of AI hosted by our beloved Ironman, Robert Downey jr. Just see first 10 min and I bet you can’t see just one episode.

https://youtu.be/UwsrzCVZAb8

So the future scope of artificial intelligence is very broad and huge and totally depends on the human ability to design!