ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE : BOON or BANE? Everything You Need

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE : BOON or BANE? Everything You Need

Taken from: Artificial Intelligence: Pros And Cons Of AI | Edureka

Pros And Cons Of AI:

• Artificial Intelligence directly translates to conceptualizing and building machines that can think and hence are independently capable of performing tasks, thus exhibiting intelligence. If this advancement in technology is a boon or a bane to humans and our surroundings is a never-ending debate. In this blog, you will understand the pros and cons of AI and how it is going to affect our future.

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Poll

Do you think artificial intelligence is good or bad?

• 100% good

• More good than bad

• 100% bad

• More bad than good

Here’s a list of topics that will be covered in this blog:

• What is Artificial Intelligence?

• Applications of AI

• Advantages of AI

• Disadvantages of AI

What is Artificial Intelligence?

AI is a technique that enables machines to mimic human behavior. Artificial Intelligence is the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making and translation between languages.

Multiple Choice

What do you call the ability of machines to understand human language

• Natural Syntax analysis

• Natural Language Processing

• Natural Language Analysis

If you ask me, AI is the simulation of human intelligence done by machines programmed by us. The machines need to learn how to reason and do some self-correction as needed along the way.

To learn more about AI, you can go through this Artificial Intelligence Tutorial blog.

Now let’s understand the different applications of AI.

Open Ended

What are some aplications of artificial intelligence? you can use Spanish.

Applications of Artificial Intelligence:

• Gaming: It is beneficial in algorithmic and strategic games like chess, wherein the machine can process various potential instances and steps and be capable of lateral thinking.

• Language Processing: It helps in effective communication with systems, mainly computers that can process and understand the language spoken by humans.

Multiple Choice

What type of AI does a chess game have?

• Reactive Machines

• Limited Memory

• Theory of Mind 

• Self-aware

• Vision Systems: They can perceive and interpret data by visualizing the input on the computer.

• Speech Recognition: Few systems are capable of comprehending the language spoken by humans and reciprocate in the same way by grasping accent, grammar, etc.

Poll

What do you think of speech recognition?

• 100% good

• More good than bad

• Completely negative

• More bad than good

• Handwriting Recognition: This unique function of AI enables particular handwriting to be read and transform it into an editable text. 

• Robots: Robots are one of the most valuable inventions of humans up to date. They are extremely efficient in their tasks as they can multitask well and save time in doing so too. They have vast memory and can easily adjust to their environment. Thus making is able to reap its many benefits.

Poll

Which is the most relevant use of artificial intelligence

• Gaming

• Language Processing

• Vision Systems

• Speech Recognition

• Handwriting Recognition

Advantages Of AI

• Easy Availability – One of the biggest advantages of machines is that they do not require constant refreshment like humans and can work for hours at a stretch. They have the capability to perform tasks and work continuously without compromising on the quality of the output. 

• Day to Day Application – The most widely used machine in our daily lives is a smartphone, which results in us unknowingly or knowingly using the benefits of AI. A few examples demonstrating the control and power AI exercises in our daily life is the use of Siri for Apple devices, GPS used for navigation and product recommendations on Amazon.

• Error Reduction –  Accuracy and precision is an important function of Artificial Intelligence that is reached successfully. Thus, it helps in recognizing and rectifying errors.

• Dealing with repetitive tasks – Monotonous tasks are time-consuming. AI algorithms can be used to deal with these tasks. Machines are capable of multitasking and can function faster than humans. 

Multiple Choice

What are the three Ds of robotics

• Daily, domestic and dangerous

• Depict, dexterity and dangerous

• Dull, dirty and dangerous

• Medical Applications – AI is widely used in the medical field. It is popularly used in identifying potential cancer risks and neurological diseases. 

• Digital assistants or clones/duplicates are used to communicate with various users, resulting in less use of manpower. Since robots and devices do not have any emotional intelligence, they end up applying logic more efficiently and thus arrive at the right decisions. 

Poll

What do you think is the most important benefit of AI?

• Easy availability

• Day to Day Application

• Error Reduction

• Dealing with repetitive tasks

• Digital Assistants

Open Ended

What do you think are the cons of AI? You can write in Spanish

Disadvantages Of AI: 

• High Cost – Artificial Intelligence enhances productivity providing efficient results, but incurs huge costs as the machines are highly complex and intricate in their training. Hence, their maintenance results in even bigger costs being incurred. 

• Inability to replicate humans – Most believe that human intelligence cannot be duplicated. Even though machines can get smarter with time and prove to be more efficient than humans, they still will never be able to possess emotions and moral concepts which are innate traits of humans.  

Multiple Select

What do you call the type of AI in which robots know they are robots?

• Reactive Machines

• Limited Memory

• Theory of Mind 

• Self-aware

• No value of experience – Humans rely on experience to further and determine their performance and on the other hand, machines do not completely have this trait. Machines do not possess the quality of being reactive to environments and this is where the difference lies between machines and humans. 

• Unemployment – This is a growing concern in any part of the world and most solutions adopted and devised to combat unemployment still has not been able to completely eradicate the issue. Abusing the benefits of AI and overusing it can make humanity highly dependent on machines. This will lead to a major loss of thinking ability resulting in creativity and ideas.

To conclude, every being and everything in this world is a product of intelligence, resulting in a continuous cycle. Artificial Intelligence elevates and supplements human intelligence. Proper use of both individually and together can create path-breaking innovations and discoveries.