The Ethics of AI | Vimarsh
The Growth of AI in the past decade or so has given us the hope to be able to solve some of the most challenging problems the world is facing today - be it from solving climate change to even cancer and other diseases. Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are having and will have a significant impact on humanity in the near future. It has raised fundamental questions about what we should do with these systems, what the systems themselves should do, what risks they involve, and how we can control these.
The general description of AI is basically to build computational systems that try and mimic the capabilities of the human brain.
Computers have beaten world champions of popular games including Chess, Jeopardy and Go. In the infamous Go championship between Deepmind’s AlphaGo and Lee Sedol (considered one of the best players), Alpha Go secured a 4-1 win against considered one of the most abstract board games. OpenAI created a Hide and Seek game and let the AI play - the results were surprising. the neural network was able to figure out problems with the code and how to trap the bad guys and even make their own base - none of which was it originally trained for. During the Alpha Go matches, the researchers observed that the AI just cared about winning the match and not by what margin. All of these tells us that AI is intelligent, it is different from other programs - it can figure out intricacies and small wins not seen by humans or for which it was not programmed at all.
This was just a matter of the game, but what about when it gets real humanly intelligent. If Moore’s law is to be believed, computers are going to get powerful, even more than our own minds at a point in time. What will we do then? Can a general intelligence AI to whom we give control over our weather, medicine, etc betray us?
