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Definition
AI stands for "Artificial Intelligence" and means the autonomous acting of machines. This is inalienable in our mordern world but it also brings some disadvantages. Many parts of AI works hand in hand with robotics.
Subjects
Chronology
Past
In the past the humans have done all works manually with their hands. Often it was a hard physical work. With manually controlled machines became the work much easier and healthier.
Present
Today we have still machines who have to be controlled manually by humans but we also have more and more machines who can act autonomous. Some machines with AI just do simple translations by using human created libraries. But today we have also very intelligent AI with the autonoumous self driving prototype of the "Google Driverless Car".
Future
Nobody knows what the future will bring but we see clear trends.
- Self driving cars
- Human robots
- Autonomous military robots and AI software (look also: Military)
- Replacing human's work
Long Term Goals
Philosophy
- Can a machine act intelligently? Can it solve any problem that a person would solve by thinking?
- Are human intelligence and machine intelligence the same? Is the human brain essentially a computer?
- Can a machine have a mind, mental states and consciousness in the same sense humans do? Can it feel how things are?
AI vs mankind
- The beginning of the end for humanity?
tools
search
planning
machine learning
algorithms
evolutionary algorithms
Applications
chess computer
- Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by IBM which beat Garry Kasparov in 1997.
- IBM Watson
- A pilot service by IBM to uncover and share data-driven insights, and to spur cognitive applications.
- A question answering system developed by IBM to play the Jeopardy! game show.
autonomous vehicles
- Google Driverless Car
- The car using a 360° camera to scan the area
- It works on the normal streets
robotics
humanoid robot
- A humanoid robot is mostly designed after the appearance of a human. The idea is to create a robot that can act like a human with all his functions. The AI is an significant part to analyse the information the robot receives for example how to manage stairs. A yearly event is the RoboCup wich is an robotics competition with the aim to promote robotics and AI research.
speech recognition
machine translation
swarm intelligence
fuzzy logic
neural networks
In Science Fiction
Science fiction films and books are full of robots and types of artificial intelligence. Often the questions of morality and consciousness are in focus. Many movies in which a AI plays a role are rather bleak with no hope for mankind or have an bad ending. A selection of important works is listed below.
Books
- I, Robot (Isaac Asimov) A series of short story's about interactions between robots and humans with a morality focus.
- 2001 A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
- The Cyberiad (Stanisław Lem)
Movies and TV
- Jarvis a personal assistant in Iron Man movies
- Star Wars: R2D2 & C-3PO are really good examples
- Star Trek: Data as an Android
- Terminator Series
- Blade Runner
- WarGames
- Metropolis
- The Matrix trilogy
- WALL-E
Video Games
- System Shock Series
- Mass Effect
In Video Games
In video games, artificial intelligence is used to generate intelligent behaviors primarily in non-player characters (NPCs), often simulating human-like intelligence.
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Ethics of artificial intelligence
The ethics of artificial intelligence is the part of the ethics of technology specific to robots and other artificially intelligent beings. It is typically divided into roboethics, a concern with the moral behavior of humans as they design, construct, use and treat artificially intelligent beings, and machine ethics, concern with the moral behavior of artificial moral agents (AMAs).
People
alan turing
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- Work can be much faster
- Products have a consistent quality
- Intelligent machines do hard work instead of humans.
- People are more healthy
- Dangerous work can be done more effectivly.
Disadvantages
- Because machines can do more and faster human works many people lose their jobs and complete industries are nearly controlled by robots and AI systems.
- AI systems can be just as perfect as the human who creates it.
- Can only make rational decisions.
- Lack of interpersonal skills.