The Advancement Of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence continues to grow and expand at a fast rate, which begs the question, will Artificial Intelligence move to the top of the food chain? Artificial Intelligence is software that is meant to tackle tasks that would normally require a human intellect. It is created by a number of algorithms that operate within in certain parameters, which allows it to complete certain tasks. Nils J. Nilsson, professor of Stanford University describes Artificial intelligence as “ an activity devoted to making machines intelligent, and intelligence is that quality that enables an entity to function appropriately and with foresight in its environment”. The article on the New York Times Debate page talks about the advancement of Artificial Intelligence,

are made by humans and can propagate the same biases that plague society”. Due to its ability to learn AI can become a plague. Ito is valid when he says that the EI can be affected by biases because the program is built to learn and adapt, and eventually it will run into the negatives of society and begin to process it. “It’s important that we be transparent about the training data that we are using, and are looking for hidden biases in it, otherwise we are building biased systems,” (Giannandrea, lead AI development at Google from the MIT Technology Review “Forget Killer Robots-Bias is the Real AI Danger). This would basically be the main problem that programmers would run into. There be something that the program was not meant to pick up that could interfere in the EI’s thought

“ it felt as though the internet had indeed helped spark the uprising. But as the internet has increasingly become a place for bigotry and malicious trolling as well as a platform for organizations like ISIS to advance a wave of hatred”- Ito’s thoughts on the internet. There will most likely always be bias in the world and someone who is bias might be the person behind the computer screen who is coding Siri. “Some experts warn that algorithmic bias is already pervasive in many industries, and that almost no one is making an effort to identify or correct it” (MIT Technology Review “Forget Killer Robots-Bias is the Real AI Danger”). The danger is already there for the bias to have its opportunity and there are few regulations in place to prevent it.

There is a possibility that some readers may think that there could be a filter in order for the EI to not consider bias when its running its algorithms, but it would be near impossible to code a system where the EI can determine what is bias and what is not. How would someone be able to set up parameters in order to identify what bias is. Would it observe the outcome of a conflict and base it off that, or look at the events that lead up to outcome, it’s hard to say because such defenses are theoretical at this point in