Artificial intelligence has been quietly coming to us unconsciously. When we find it, it has penetrated into our lives and even affected the whole world. There are infinite possibilities in the future of artificial intelligence, and its future is also changing the future of mankind.
If the Internet changes the information infrastructure, then the mobile Internet will change the allocation of resources. Like a peripheral nerve, the Internet has penetrated into all aspects of human life. It has not only produced a large amount of data that scientists have been thinking about day and night, but also spawned the cloud computing method, which has collected the computing power of tens of millions of servers, and made the computing power have been improved rapidly.
The "machine learning" method invented by scientists before has shown great power in the field of the Internet. From automatically recommending reading and shopping information according to users' interests, to more accurate speech recognition and network translation, the Internet has become more and more intelligent.
Artificial intelligence is preparing for a revolution comparable to the technological revolution.
In the face of such a change, many leading figures in science and technology are discussing what potential risks it may bring. At the same time, many people in the industry also question its ability to deliver miracles. As a result, there are two voices in public opinion haunting our ears: one is that as long as AI falls into the trough of development, it will hear "this is just a new bubble for changing routines"; the other is that as long as AI reaches the peak of development, it will hear the worry that "human beings will be ruled by machines".
In the face of such a rapid development of new technology, there must be different opinions. But I firmly believe that we can neither underestimate its long-term impact nor overestimate its short-term impact.
From the perspective of vertical development, artificial intelligence is usually divided into three stages: the first stage is weak artificial intelligence, the second stage is strong artificial intelligence, and the third stage is super artificial intelligence. But in fact, no matter how advanced AI technology is, it belongs to the first stage. It can only be similar to people in a certain field, but can not surpass human beings.
What role does
artificial intelligence play?
Many people believe that in the future development, artificial intelligence is an infinite treasure that will be fought for. But for ordinary users, what they care about is not treasure. They are concerned about the innovation and development in the AI field, whether they can combine countless intelligent machines with billions of interconnected intelligent brains, help us understand and change the world, thus bringing more and more convenience and quickness to life.
There may be a big gap between today's robots and those "ubiquitous" robots in science fiction. AI is not the only form of robots. In fact, it has begun to infiltrate our lives in various ways. "Intelligent production" and "unmanned factory" with industrial robots as the main force have become the symbol of "industrialization 4.0".
The phenomenon that humanoid robots act as waiters and salesmen in shopping malls or shops is everywhere. Driverless cars are being tested and driven on the road. There are even beautiful robots that are almost fake and real as front desk in department stores. From the most popular voice assistant, to the most controversial robots and driverless cars, every evolution has inspired the enthusiasm of human beings for the future of technology. Maybe technology is getting closer and closer.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk once said: "with artificial intelligence, we will summon demons. You all know the story of someone with the pentagram and the holy water and sure he can control the devil, but he can't But we can see from the side, in fact, musk also has a strong belief in AI.
This is why internet giants have joined AI. In addition to strategic reasons, it is more because AI has developed much faster than we think, and it has gradually penetrated into all walks of life and people's daily life.
Where will the future of artificial intelligence go?
Some people worry that when super artificial intelligence comes, will machines control human beings? In fact, artificial intelligence can never reach super artificial intelligence, and even strong artificial intelligence may not be able to reach it. In the future, machines can be infinitely close to human abilities, but they can never surpass them.
But because computers are so much better than humans in some ways, just the ability to approach humans infinitely can be disruptive enough. For example, the memory of the computer, Baidu search can remember hundreds of billions of pages of web pages, and every word can be remembered, this is no one can do.
Another example is its computing power. Even if it's poetry writing, input your name into "write poetry for you" on Baidu, and press enter. Before you can react, the poem will be done. No matter how fierce a person is, it is impossible to achieve this speed. But in many aspects, such as creativity and emotion, machines can not be compared with human beings.
The most important thing is that in the relationship between technology and people, there are essential differences between the previous technological revolution and the intelligent revolution. In the first three technological revolutions, human beings learned and created the world by themselves. However, because of deep learning, the artificial intelligence revolution is the common learning and innovation of human and machine.
In the first three times of technological revolution, people have to learn and adapt to machines, but in the era of artificial intelligence, machines learn and adapt to human beings on their own initiative. In the new era of steam and electricity, many people were afraid of new machines. In addition to the great changes in job opportunities, people had to adapt to machines and assembly lines.
However, this revolution of artificial intelligence is the active learning and adaptation of machines to human beings. One of the essence of "machine learning" is to find rules from a large number of human behavior data, and then provide different services according to the different interests and characteristics of identified people.
In the future, the communication between people and machines, people and tools may be based entirely on natural language. You don't have to learn how to use tools, such as how to adjust the air purifier, how to turn on the video conferencing system. You just have to talk and it's going to understand.
The use of artificial intelligence is not as uncomfortable as the machines of the past, but will make people's lives better. The application of artificial intelligence is a factor to promote human progress, it will greatly improve work efficiency.
Although the process of intelligent revolution will be vigorous, its results will be like a gentle and broad river. Experts in the field of AI believe that the intelligent flow in the future will surround us peacefully like the current of today, completely changing the state of human politics, economy, society and life. In the future, we will enjoy artificial intelligence unconsciously.
