Humans have often wondered about the existence of God.
After centuries of scientific developments, humans, eventually developed a self-propelled AI bot more intelligent than humans.
The first question they asked was --
"Is there a God?"
The bot replied --
"There is now."
These are Stephen Hawkings' words, one of his fictional AI-related plots he talked about in his 'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' interview.
The debate surrounding an 'AI god' is up in the air again following Google's self-driving car team member Anthony Levandowski's arguments that humans will eventually create an AI that is more intelligent than we are, making it functionally god-like.
No, we're not talking about a plot of some science-fiction TV show. Many people in the valley believe in singularity. Even the Tesla co-founder, Elon Musk, recently said that "AI is highly likely to destroy humans".
My opinion -- is it really worth it to worry about singularity when we have more problems related to AI at the moment? At present, most people interact with AI on a daily basis. The self-propelled algorithms of Facebook, Google, and like are influencing our day-to-day lives, even our elections.
A god-like AI isn't gonna pop up tomorrow and take over the world, but what really needs to be discussed is how algorithm bias continues to plague many systems and applications that we use on a regular basis.
How close are we to reaching singularity? Well, nobody has the perfect answer to this question. But at present, how better can we integrate AI and use it for the betterment of mankind should be the real point of discussion.
Healthcare, transportation, marketing, customer services, and ERP are some of the fields that seek integrity to AI. Most of these fields already rely on artificial intelligence to generate analytics and like.
AI will, indeed, take away many of our present jobs.
It won't take all of our jobs tho, but most of those that are done by humans today -- primarily labour jobs. However, a point which should be noted is that AI taking our jobs does sound scary -- for those infected -- but has always gone hand-to-hand with economic development.
Do you agree with Musk's concerns regarding AI? I'd love to hear your views on "AI taking over the world".