Are we supposed to fear AI?

I don’t think there’s a need to panic, but … the people who say Let’s not worry at all, I don’t agree with them.
— Bill Gates

In science fiction often portrays AI as robots with human-like characteristics, AI can encompass anything from simple applications (SIRI) to self-driving cars to autonomous weapons….
This year (2017), I started learning AI at the college, where we talked about the four approaches of AI:

When we debated about the first approach, a big question came to head, then I asked the teacher:

— Teacher, aren’t we building something that as a potential to exterminate us????
Well, during some reading, I found out that I’m not the only person who is aware of AI potential, recently Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and many other big names in science and technology have recently expressed concern in the media and via open letters about the risks posed by AI and cording to it, I dived in to further reading to see if is it worth to continue studying and developing AI agents, and in the reading, I found this:

Some AI systems are programmed to do some devastating things:

— Autonomous weapons are artificial intelligence systems that are programmed to kill. In the hands of the wrong person, these weapons could easily cause mass casualties, and if can take it’s own decision, I dont know what can happen.

The first thing I loved to hear was: with the development of strong artificial intelligent agents, we can join our forces to fight against problems, so that we can have more time to be more human (Fei Fei li) 😉😉😉😊

It’s Cost-Effective — Unlike humans, robots and machines do not have to get paid every month for the work they do.
It Enhances Efficiency — Depending on the type of intelligence. If machines would be built without any flaw. So, no doubt they would be able to perform even the most complex tasks without any error.
They Don’t Take a Rest — Unlike humans, machines can train over and over again the same task to master in it, without needing to take a break
Machines Don’t Have Emotions — This is a great advantage because having no emotions means that nothing is going to affect their performance

Yes we are supposed to fear AI, but it doesn’t mean that we should stop developing AI systems (I think that we can’t stop AI), I particularly think we should keep our studies in AI, so that if the apocalypse is coming we should be prepared to face it, and if we don’t develop it, somebody else will in secret and if something wrong happens we will be unprepared to fight against it.
Beside the possibilities of apocalypse AI can help us achieve what would take us years.

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With ❤ by Richaldo L. Elias!

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