IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE ON
SOCIETY
Syed Saqib Raza Rizvi
Lecture 4
Index
 Introduction
 History
 Applications
 Goals
 Fiction
 Isaac Asimov
 Myth and Realities
 References
Introduction
 Intelligence exhibited by machines

Intelligent function
 Learning
 Problem Solving
 Reasoning
 Knowledge
 Planning
 Natural language processing
 Perception
 Approaches
 Machine Learning
 Dynamic Programming
 etc.
 Types of
Machines??
1. Manual
2. Automatic
3. Intelligent
4. Smart (GAI)
5. Cognitive (GAI-SAI)
6. Conscious Machines
(SAI)
 History
The field of AI research was founded at

a conference at Dartmouth College

(LONDON) in 1956.

Turing Test (Dilemmas & Paradox)

2030 Prediction about Turing test.

Deep Blue Super computer

Applications
 autonomous vehicles
 Games
 search engines
 online assistants
 image recognition
 spam filtering
 targeting online advertisements
 medical diagnosis
 creating art (such as poetry and painting)
 proving mathematical theorems
 general machine intelligence
 conversational behavior
 data-mining
 robotic,
 companies involved Tesla, Amazon, Google, Facebook,
IBM, and Microsoft
 Goals
Expert Systems
Model Human Intelligence (Cognitive)
Solving practical problems in the light of :
 Attempting to deal with problems of
existing intelligent systems (e.g.,
problems of human learning or
emotional difficulties)
 Designing useful new intelligent or semi
Intelligent machines.
In fiction
Marvel comics
Avengers 2: Age of Ultron
Jarvis
Transformer
Max Steel (2010)
 Artificial intelligence (2001)
The terminator series
I-Robots
Interstellar (2014)
 Isaac Asimov
1. A robot may not injure a human being or,
through inaction, allow a human being to
come to harm.

2. A robot must obey orders given it by

human beings except where such orders
would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as

long as such protection does not conflict with
the First or Second Law
Myth and Realities
1. Myth: “AI would took all our jobs.”

Reality: There’s no question that artificial intelligence is poised to uproot and

replace many existing jobs, from factory work to the upper echelons of white
collar work. Some experts predict (PDF) that half of all jobs in the US are
vulnerable to automation in the near future.
2. Myth: “We will never create AI with human-like intelligence.”

Reality: We already have computers that match or exceed

human capacities in games like chess and Go, stock market
trading, and conversations. Computers and the algorithms
that drive them can only get better, and it’ll only be a matter
of time before they excel at nearly any human activity.
3. Myth: ““Artificial intelligence will be conscious.”

Reality: A common assumption about machine intelligence is that it’ll

be conscious—that is, it’ll actually think the way humans do. What’s
more, critics like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen believe that we’ve yet
to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), i.e. an intelligence
capable of performing any intellectual task that a human can,
because we lack a scientific theory of consciousness.
 4. Myth: “We should be afraid of AI”

Reality: In January, Facebook founder Mark Zuckemberg said we

shouldn’t fear AI, saying it will do an amazing amount of good in the
world. He’s half right; we’re poised to reap tremendous benefits from
AI—from self-driving cars to the creation of new medicine—but there’s
no guarantee that every instantiation of AI will be begin.
5. Myth: “Artificial super intelligence will be too smart to make
mistakes.”

Reality: AI researcher and founder of Surfing Samurai Robots, Richard

Loosemore thinks that most AI doomsday scenarios are incoherent,
arguing that these scenarios always involve an assumption that the AI
is supposed to say “I know that destroying humanity is the result of a
glitch in my design, but I am compelled to do it anyway
6. Myth: “Machines would be out of control.”

Reality: Improving AI machines means greater control mechanism

7. Myth: “We will be destroyed by artificial super intelligence.”

Reality: There’s no guarantee that AI will destroy us, or that we won’t

find ways to control and contain it. As AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky
said, “The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made
out of atoms which it can use for something else.”
 8. Myth: “Risks from AI and robotics are the same.”

Reality: This is a particularly common mistake (good examples here

and here), one perpetuated by an uncritical media and Hollywood
films like the Terminator movies.
9. Myth: “AI is only about making Smart Robots.”

Reality: AI is broader field which aim is to make smart algorithms, data

mining, machine learning, search, etc….
References:

Standford_Research.pdf
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