Myth on A.I.

Over the past few years, there was a huge progress on A.I. This technology is no longer the topic of scientific research but indeed it has been integrated into our daily life without our awareness.

While our life is largely benefited by A.I. but as this technology advances, there is not without worry. The biggest one lies on whether A.I. will turn out one day to be the master of human being.

Despite of the huge progress but A.I. is still in its infancy just like a baby whom needs the pampering and looking after from its counter part. This means no matter how powerful the technology is now but it still needs human to feed the background data so that it can start learning. That is to say, it is completely under human's control. It just does whatever human being wants it to do.

However, the trend of this technology is that scientists are tempted to give more and more autonomy to A.I. to explore the boundary of this technology. As a A.I. freak, it is natural for scientists to do so because basically exploration is the instinct of being scientists. However, this approach may give rise to the machines. When A.I. combined with a super computer, it could mean a monster. Basically the essence of A.I. is its ability to learn from the fed background data to turn it into an understanding of the outside world. It means the ability to perceive, interpret and anticipate. It is very much similar to human's thinking. There is only a fine line between the two, ie., consciousness.

I am sure if A.I., when backed with a very very super computer, after learning more and long enough, will generate consciousness of self. A new born baby is actually unaware of self due to the primitive brain function only but as his brain develops he differentiates the outside world from himself gradually. A.I now is like a new born baby but as scientists empower the machines, they will grow from infantry to adult. It means it is not just a machine only but has its true own thinking just like what we folks do. That is when human being's nightmare begins.

When a machine starts to has consciousness and can think for well-being of itself. It is the time of independence. These super machines could become an interested group with very strong power. Needless to say, the world at that time is more than ever connected with internet or similar technology. Super machines no longer need to get fed by human being. They can search and retrieve the resources they need through the world network of IoT. Super machines no longer serve human being but a competitor instead.

The scenario in Terminator finally comes true.

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Latest update

This article was written a year ago and now there is an Amercian company which has developed robot dogs that can cooperate among themselves to escape from a room by opening a locked door. They did that all by themselves. The controllers just sent two commands to proceed forward during the course of action. That means these robot dogs are basically an individual that can assess and react corresponding to the outside world just like a creature. How far away A.I. will become autonomous?