TED BATMAN COLLEGE / 9-A
Artificial Intelligence-
Does It Mean The End?
Murat ADAK
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Machines are becoming more
intelligent than people. Does it mean
the end? Can an artificial intelligence
develop smarter versions of itself?
Neil Jacobstein, Head of the
Department of Artificial Intelligence
and Robots at the University of
California Singularity says ‘Maybe.
I don’t think artificial intelligence
can have any moral costs. If we start
working now, it can significantly
improve our chances of getting rid of
uncontrolled artificial intelligence’.
Professor Stephen Hawking
joined the list of experts who were
concerned about what would
happen after mankind developed a
truly intelligent device or software.
Hawking was worried that artificial
intelligence could mean the end of
human life.
The same concerns were raised last
October by Tesla’s owner, Elon Musk.
Musk said that artificial intelligence,
which has reached difficult levels
to control, is the ‘greatest threat’ to
the human generation. Musk says he
wonders if brutal artificial intelligence
will bring us to an end.
Oxford University professor Nick
Bostrom said that in the next century
we may experience an apocalypse in
artificial intelligence management.
Google’s chief engineer, Ray
Kurzweilde, is concerned about
artificial intelligence, but for other
reasons.
‘Not everyone who works on artificial
intelligence finds these concerns
important. However, since society
thinks so, the issue should be taken
more seriously. It is best to stand in
the middle of the two ends. There’s
no reason to panic right now. I don’t
think we will develop an artificial
intelligence at the human level
in the next 10-20 years.’ People
have different ideas about artificial
intelligence, and the future will show
which one is right.
In the future, we can make things
easier by using artificial intelligence.
Or artificial intelligence can go
beyond our control and try to destroy
humanity. We’ll wait and see…