Not that a new and path breaking technology has been unleashed for the first time in human history, but the trajectory Artificial Intelligence will take still remains a mystery, with every super-specialist in the game having his own point of view. All tech so far, have had a straight line of progression depending on the energies and effort put in, side and side with the resources made available for the purpose. In the case of AI for the large part of the population, including serious practitioners and every adopters, the road ahead is really unknown.
The real enigma is of the capabilities it would acquire and the manner in which those capabilities would impact human existence. OpenAI is the entity which unleashed Artificial Intelligence to the world. When its co-founder speaks we need to give him the seriousness he deserves. In his convocation address at the University of Toronto, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever predicted that AI would eventually match human capabilities. One of the original architects of AI accepts the fact by saying that AI might not be perfect today, but moving into the future it can do everything humans can and possibly more.
He used the University of Toronto Convocation address platform to reflect on the futurism of AI, “The real challenge with AI is that it is really unprecedented and really extreme, and it’s going to be very different in the future compared to the way it is today.” We all know the AI models of today, they being better in some things compared to humans and worse in many others. This status is not going to last for long. It is just a matter of time, AI as we all know will keep getting better, depending on the way it has progressed so far, and the day will come when AI will do all the things that we can do.
For him the analogy is simple. Brain is a biological computer, it does what it does, then why can’t a digital computer; a digital brain, do the same things? This is the reason why AI will be able to do all those things, was his reasoning. AI currently is strong enough to suggest vast possibilities, but it is also true that it is still not close to reaching its full potential. Timelines for sure remain a challenge to predict in this field, nonetheless the likely progression seems acceptable. Sutskever suggested that a true breakthrough into superintelligence is more a matter of when than if. “Three, five or maybe ten years” was his rough estimate.
AI TAKING GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS NOW SEEMS INEVITABLE.
Sanjay Sahay
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