Número diez: Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence, quite literally one of the most fascinating aspects of computer science. AI has been a huge part of our history from all those old movies to movies like iRobot, terminator, age of Ultron, and more. AI has always seemed out of reach to the general public, but it is here and it’s advancing more and more every year. With the public watching movies like those and just social media, there have been some issues with the advancing of AI, and this is where things like machine learning come in. Machine learning is the newest term that is being used for AI and it is described as a system in which it learns based on experience and data. There has and always will be fear when it comes to AI, like Stephen Hawking says, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." This is further pushed when you add deepfakes into the equation. In the first blog post, we spoke about the different ways we can inoculate ourselves to deepfakes but with the development of AI and incredibly fast advancement of deepfakes even that will be almost impossible to tell apart. But AI doesn’t only have downsides. One benefit to the development of AI is self-driving vehicles. If AI were to become a big thing, we could implement them in our cars and make Self-driving vehicles a real possibility. We already use a dumbed-down version of AI and machine learning in our daily lives, think Alexa, Siri and Google. Things like Siri learning your daily commutes and the different times you leave your home and drive so that it can predict where you are headed before you start driving and already has the directions and time to get there set so all you have to do is press start. Things like that that improve our daily lives aren’t big deals and over time with these benefits growing we should be ready for full-blown AI in the near future, and I for one can’t wait.