In class this past week we had discussions on the topic of artificial intelligence. We were trying to understand what purposes did it serve, and how it affects humanity. This made me think more deeply about, how much would AI change our lives in the future.
To get a idea, i looked at a person who has a lot of knowledge and experience dealing with AI. So, i turned to Elon Musk, to get a closer look at how our lives would be impacted. He brings to topic about self driving, talking about how safe AI really is. Stating that self driving is “about at least 100 – 200% safer than a person”(Musk). Which is a impressive number, and backs the evidence up by talking about Tesla’s autopilot version one. Which he says was a forty five percent reduction in highway accidents. WIth having later versions of autopilot being three to four time better in the future. Which i noticed that it benefits to saving lives of a lot people. But the only side that needs to be taking in high consideration is having AI be one with humanity. So the scenes won’t turn around to cause potential and serious damage.
Which brings me some concerns for if tech can cause problem on its own. I have high doughts believing so beauce of machine learning. Which is “a subset of AI that enables machines to automatically learn and improve from experience. Specialized systems are created for this purpose and no explicit programming is needed to add new definitions to the database. The machines can learn on their own”(Single Grain).
To see how something like this can goes wrong, i visioned a tech that cleans up the ocean. A robot that learns to collect and get rid of trash in the water. What might be a problem that may arise, would be the endangerment for wildlife getting involved. As it could easily misinterpreting a fish for a piece of trash. That would end up horrible as it’s not meant to live with polluted trash, which may kill the fish. You can redesign this technology to detect the difference to have a better result. But isn’t perfect as because it may need humans to step in. Because of having a two in one, meaning a fish trapped within the trash iself. What will result from that would be completely unaware scenario, which would either count as trash or a fish. With no solution as the fish would be let free to suffer in trash, or become the trash. So to ensure that it doesn’t happen, is having a human on the side. To seperate the two, to be placed in their category and right spots. As well understanding living things, as AI doesn’t learn reactions but only objects. Enables having a clean waters not polluted in trash, that would be better for human health. To guarantee not eat a fish that consumed trash. For a quality source of food for humans, a healthier earth, and suffer free fish.
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