In the last decade, Artificial intelligence has gone from a science fiction dream to a critical part of our every day’s lives. We use AI technology to interact with our phones through Siri and Alexa. Car’s like Tesla’s interpret and analyze their surroundings to intelligently drive themselves. Amazon monitors our browsing habits and intelligently serves us up products it thinks we wish to buy. Even
Google and other search engines decides what kind of search results to give us based on who it thinks we are. Because Artificially Intelligent algorithms are here. But this is only the beginning. Because AI is the future of the world. But do we want that? Now, what is exactly the Artificial Intelligence? The simplest descriptor is collecting data about the world and using that data to make predictions in the short and long term which applies to both people and machines. So when we are talking about AI in our day to day life, we are talking about everything from a computer being able to read a handwritten document like an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) reader to a robot that performs a complex surgery on its own. Even to a massive database categorizing your personality based on what you have written and looked at online because the
world of AI is so incredibly large. AI systems are already primed to take over millions of jobs. Any job that consists of a human taking down information from other humans and inputting it into the systems is likely to go obsolete. So cashiers, receptionists, telemarketers and bank tellers are all on their way out. If self-driving cars, self-operating drones and other conveyors get more easier in future, we will also lose jobs like truck drivers postal workers, courier services and also pizza delivery. Factories are also becoming fully automated, so our car washes and movie theaters are threatened by rapidly improving algorithms that can gather information and deliver it fast and more accurate. But as society
changes to accommodate in machine serving world, it will also open up new jobs for the next generation like writing software, repairing and maintaining robots and developing new and better systems. Most notably, machines are also primed to take over dangerous jobs such as firefighting, mining, deep sea oil drilling, construction and other careers with high mortality rates will be replaced by machines which neither gets sick nor gets hurt. We don’t know what an AI workforce will look like, but many believe that the world might be a brighter and a rewarding place with machines taking over the dull and hazardous jobs. As we develop better AI, we are discovering that it cannot just replace human labor but also think in ways that human can. Algorithms that can monitor and process massive amounts of information and make conclusions based on patterns in that data are poised to change every avenue of society starting from something small like optimizing traffic patterns over time to figure out the best routes to take or how to fix roads and rebuilt highways. All the way to something much more serious like monitoring epidemics and diseases and stopping them before they spread. Machine Learning has even shown to analyze human behavior, predict warning signs and recognizing common language used by the people like sexual predators or terrorists and alerting law enforcement to take action. Now, the same technology can be used to track the political dissidents or provide fake news to vulnerable people while blocking out competing opinions and information. Some of the tech monopolies control the latest breakthroughs in data collecting, processing and analyzing. We may hope that AI will help to advance our society, but it may end up working to the benefit of the tech industry and only those who can afford to take advantage of cheaper, smarter human replacements leads to the detriment of society. But for now, we don’t know what the future of AI holds.
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