The Role Of Artificial Intelligence In Redefining The Future

Name Tutor Course Date The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Redefining the Future In a world where new technological advances are commonplace and technology is ever-evolving, the only constant is progression and change. Much like evolution, it is almost virtually impossible for technology to move backward. It is almost always moving forward, advancing and improving with each passing day (Bostrom 34). In such a world, change is a constant factor that must not only be accepted but also embraced. Willingly embracing change allows technology developers to think ahead and innovate, essentially creating the next technological craze. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) may not be moving forward at the same pace that mobile technology is moving, it is moving nonetheless, and towards a brighter, better, and more technologically advanced future at that. While AI may still be taking its baby steps today, it must be accepted that this technology will not only disrupt the society as it exists (like all other great technologies) but also redefine the future of humankind. The vastly diverse ways in which AI can be applied makes it arguably the single most important piece of technology insofar as the development of the human race is concerned. AI is basically grounded in the need to enable machines to learn, understand, and interact with their environment in ways that human beings would. This essentially translates into providing machines with the capabilities to exhibit cognitive and emotive awareness based on how they interact with their environment. In this way, AI has endless applications, almost all of which stand to improve the quality of life that human beings lead. Ai can not only be used to provide companionship to lonely people, it can also be applied to solve complex social, environmental, and even political problems depending on how it has been developed and programmed. This essentially makes AI a powerful tool that can be tasked with solving a multitude of diverse problems in ways that are not only logical and rational but also beneficial to the human population. Some of these core industries that stand to be significantly impacted by the application of AI include finance, construction, medicine, agriculture, and engineering, just to name a few. Seeing as the intellectual capacity of these machines has no limits, AI is capable of continuous exponential improvement, which essentially translates into endless viable ways in which problems can be approached and solved (Tegmark 93). It is this exponential potential that makes AI both extremely appealing and scary in equal measure. The fact that the future stands to possess machines that are exponentially smarter than the smartest human beings to ever live with the capability of conceptualizing all kinds of solutions to global problems raises some serious questions. The fact that almost all forms of AI will be capable of self-awareness coupled with their ability to act independently makes them useful and dangerous in equal measure. The underlying theme insofar as this issue is concerned with control, and how it can be applied to intelligent machines capable of acting independently. The possible dangers aside, the applicability of AI to virtually any field or discipline makes it a potent tool...