TOPIC 9 TEAM 1: TECHNOLOGY, BIG DATA, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines. Although it’s artificial it is still intelligence. If you teach a robot to programme, it will programme. It’s designed to do it. If AI is well programmed and well developed there would be no problems or, at least only a few small, not further relevant technical problems.

    We don’t have artificial intelligence nowadays, although we have robots that replace some tasks if they are programmed to do it. Robots can buy, drive and even cook. In Mc Donald’s there are robots which people use to order their meal, to deliver food… Artificial Intelligence will probably take over operations in a lot of industry sectors. For instance robots are already working in car factories and in the future autonomous machines will be able to do the work on their own in e.g. car factories or on working sites. In a few years we are going to have a more developed AI.

    Humans are inventing ways to automate jobs. Shortly, the robots will do most of the functions that humans can do. It makes us think that in the future, the robots will do all the work, and the humans won’t have any jobs. Then, we have to focus on jobs that are unobtainable for robots. The scientific world evolves quickly, and our lifes have to adapt to it. Young people will have jobs that don’t exist yet. But will artificial intelligence create millions of unemployed people? Are we going to be the dumb workers and even more dumb consumers? Are we, namely us, intelligent enough to be indispensable in a world where more and more robots are working (very efficiently) and AI is a general solution for everything?

    It seems that machines will be able to obtain better results than humans do in almost all the works, but robots have to be programmed by someone, and in the future it will be a prodigious profession. In a few years the society will be completely changed and there will be jobs which we can’t imagine nowadays.

    Nevertheless, what about our lifestyle? Is our society going to change so much? Yes it is, on one hand we would be able to do all things we like because technology will protect us. Though technology won’t protect you if you jump on the road and a truck hits you, because you’ll die, but it can protect you by replacing your arm if you lose it, or by operating you in case it was necessary. On the other hand, what about collateral effects of better technology, for example, better connected cars, less accidents and hence less transplants?

    But if everything is to be so automated, what will be the place for emotions in the future? Robots may have emotions or even be our friends. There is a film, “Her” which shows how Theodore becomes obsessed with a new operating system with artificial intelligence. Theodore is supposed to be heartbroken because he just came out of a very long relationship, but the operating system introduces him "Samantha", who works like Siri, but in a much more advanced way. Finally, Theodore falls in love with her, even if it is not a physical entity and just a voice.
    ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV6mXIOVl4 )

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    Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
    https://futureoflife.org/background/benefits-risks-of-artificial-intelligence/
    https://www.techopedia.com/definition/190/artificial-intelligence-ai

     
    TEAM 1 Jeremy Oakden Joschka Landsberg Cèlia Cruz Clàudia Yeguas