Can Artificial Intelligence outsmart Artificial Stupidity?

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change - Stephen Hawking

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“Artificial Intelligence” - the supposedly recent hot topic in our contemporary world, is in fact not recent. Ada Lovelace (1842) who worked closely with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine wrote that,

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

which is an objection that Alan Turing answered in his paper (1950) “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” in which he introduced his famous test as The Imitation Game.

Recently, AI has started showing up in real life beyond Research Papers, thanks to accessible computational powers and practical purposes. Take this instance where researchers have created a Nanophotonic Medium (Glass) that can perform Aritifical Neural Computing such as Image detection (explained with MNIST Numbers recognition).

Facebook, one of the leading AI companies, used AI-powered mapping tool RapiD to supercharge the mapping efforts that OSM has been leading for the last 10 years. Doing it the traditional way — without AI — would have taken another three to five years, but Map With AI enabled them to map more than 300,000 miles of roads in Thailand in only 18 months, going from a road network that covered 280,000 miles before they began to 600,000 miles after.

Now, that’s all good about Artificial Intelligence. Here’s Vincent Warmerdam introducing us to the world of Artificial Stupidity.

This is one of the most-thought provoking talks I’ve seen in the recent times. If you happen to be in the business of Predictions, you need to really spend about ~36 Mins in this to understand the type of “Artificial Stupidity” happening while we use AI/ML and some ways we can address them - sometimes simply by saying

“This is the grey area, I can’t predict it”.

The answer to the question “Can Artificial Intelligence outsmart Artificial Stupidity?” is quite simple - Of course, YES! But what’s the price that we’re going to pay in the due process? Some times that could even cost us Humans, Lives, if we’re not careful enough.

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AbdulMajed!