BENEFITS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Summarised in this quote :

"Everything we love about civilization is a product of intelligence, so amplifying our human intelligence with artificial intelligence has the potential of helping civilization flourish like never before – as long as we manage to keep the technology beneficial."

- Max Tegmark, President of the Future of Life Institute

WHAT IS AI?

According to futureoflife.org -
Artificial intelligence today is properly known as narrow AI (or weak AI), in that it is designed to perform a narrow task (e.g. only facial recognition or only internet searches or only driving a car). However, the long-term goal of many researchers is to create general AI (AGI or strong AI). While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, like playing chess or solving equations, AGI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task.

HOW CAN AI BE DANGEROUS?

Firstly, it can be programmed into some autonomous weapons to kill.

Secondly, the AI is aimed at doing something beneficial but along the line it may fulfill some destructive purpose. In an attempt to be accurate, it may tend to go way overboard and disobey rules.


MOVING ON

Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, 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, joined by many leading AI researchers. But despite the concern, there is still a massive future for AI in decades to come.
Source: http://www.informationfromjay..com.ng/2017/04/artificial-intelligence-there-are-pros.html1

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I think the major con not mentioned in this article is if the AI becomes 'self aware' or rather self intelligent...ability to discern its right from left

uzoexcel:
I think the major con not mentioned in this article is if the AI becomes 'self aware' or rather self intelligent...ability to discern its right from left

You're probably right. And this has posed some controversies and misconceptions. Nevertheless, I do think humans can gain control when this happens. We can counter the effects of AI becoming self-aware.

KCode:
You're probably right. And this has posed some controversies and misconceptions. Nevertheless, I do think humans can gain control when this happens. We can counter the effects of AI becoming self-aware.

Lol....u remember d guy who committed suicide in d i-robot movie...the AI self learnt and evolved on its own..with the way tech is going, anything s possible