While the concept of artificial intelligence is ancient, appearing in Greek mythology and others [1], the field of artificial intelligence, or AI, was not founded until 1956 during a conference at Darmouth College [2]. Early attempts at artificial intelligence includes W. Grey Walter’s robot turtles and the Johns Hopkins Beast. Both operated with physical sensors that allowed them to navigate obstacles while carrying out their programming. Though it has been argued that these robots do not possess ‘strong’ artificial intelligence, intelligence on par with that of a human, they do represent ‘weak’ artificial intelligence, or intelligence related to a specific problem or task [3].
In 1950 Alan Turing published his paper ‘Computing …show more content…
Many of the contestants began to refer to Watson as ‘he’ in respect.
If Deep Blue and Watson are examples of logical thinking natural language processing respectfully, then Staley is an example of navigational AI. Stanley used a number of perception sensor with which to navigate. Among the sensors were LIDARs capable of building a 3-D map, gyroscopes and accelerometers in addition to GPS and several other sensor capable of operating while ‘offline’. Stanley utilized the LIDARs to find a safe passage past obstacles within 80 meters and, if necessary, to decelerate to allow additional time for a safe passage to be found. The Stanford
Racing Team augmented Stanley’s pathing algorithm with a log of human actions with was analyzed by the program’s learning algorithm.
In the possible future, AI will be capable of fully understanding any natural language needing only to be taught to speak that language like any child. This will allow machine not only to intelligently answer questions, but to detect subtext and small nuances allowing them to …show more content…
In the book Aleksandr describes how inmates in a USSR prison are forced to compare spectrographs of a call with other recordings of suspects in order to identify who made that call
[9]. An AI capable of doing the same thing would require no training and have no loved ones who might question its disappearance. It could be duplicated allowing a system to analyze a greater number of recordings in less time and over a wider spread of a population.
Just like in the book, corrupt governments could use this technology to suppress any potential dissention before it happens. This would make it harder for oppressed populaces to overturn those governments. Going farther into the future, should AI develop sentience and that sentience not be ‘friendly’ toward humans, it could use its natural language capabilities to win a war between humans and AI before it even starts. While this is a worse case senario. An Open
Letter of Artificial Intelligence has ever been put forth calling for research into the potential impacts of AI on society, not only the beneficial, focused on the potential consequences of