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Google: Artificial Intelligence will be as important as fire!


Google CEO, 'Sundar Pichai' has high hopes for AI (Artificial Intelligence), so much so that he said this in an interview "AI is the most important thing humanity is working on, it's more profound that I don't know electricity or fire". Okay so if that's true that what does that mean for you and me.

Artificial Intelligence could potentially have an impact comparable to fire. Imagine this, any computational or knowledge-based work could at least in part be assumed by AI. Just to name a few pharmacy, healthcare diagnosis law even parts of programming all those jobs that have been traditionally high-paying and sought-after will change now, that does not necessarily mean that 30 years from now we won't need human doctors or lawyers or pharmacists, it just means that to be successful in those professions we're going to need to be more than just dispensers of knowledge. You will be expected to excel at aspects of the work that AI does not do well like understanding human beings, coming up with creative solutions to problems that couldn't otherwise be solved by common practice or reparative tasks. 

Imagine if we are able to eliminate almost all human error from anything that needs a human operator such as cars, trains, airplanes, trains. It not only makes it hugely more efficient but is far safer. Get this, nearly 1.3 million people die every year in a road crash, so just imagine the life saved by AI from road crashes alone. So now comes how AI will make ethical choices, for example if I'm sitting in my driverless car and all of a sudden a dog jumps out and the AI thought to dodge the dog but loses control and now we only have two choices drive off the cliff where the passenger is certainly going to die or hits a small child. As a human driver and as a parent we would first save the life of an innocent child and driver over the cliff, but would the AI make the same calculation? If so then who programs those ethics into the AI and if it fails and does kill an innocent child who is responsible, the programmer, the manufacturer or the governing body that writes those ethics? Currently, there is no world governing body that is recognized to establish a code of ethics and enforce those code. Here in India, we could have such a body but someone off in another country could have complete disregard to all of those regulations.

As a humanity are we responsible enough to deal with all the implications of AI. We should remember that AI capability is not going to explode exponentially overnight. AI's capability is going to increase gradually that give us some comfort as we do have some time on a code of ethics. I just hope humanity's maturity rises to the occasion when needed.

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