Will artificial intelligence eventually destroy mankind?

Objectively speaking, no, even if there is a threat, it is very difficult and far away.

(1) Why has "artificial intelligence" become the focus of public opinion again?

Ordinary people's cognition of artificial intelligence originated from 2065438+March 2006, when Google's artificial intelligence Alpha Go and Li Shishi fought bravely in Go, and finally Alpha Go won the man-machine war with 4: 1.

The enthusiasm and panic about artificial intelligence have flooded again, which has also triggered a new round of media propaganda.

(2) What exactly is "artificial intelligence"?

In the eyes of many people, only robots that look like people and can think like people are called "artificial intelligence". Actually, it is not. Ordinary people have a misunderstanding about "artificial intelligence".

Artificial intelligence does not refer to robots with the same appearance and intelligence as human beings, nor is it as smart, powerful and threatening human survival as in science fiction movies. Even artificial intelligence can't think like a human brain, and can't think in a complicated way like human beings.

AI (artificial intelligence) is defined as being able to make reasonable actions according to the cognition of the environment and maximize a defined objective function. Such a computer program is defined as "artificial intelligence" (from the balanced and empirical Wikipedia definition). Today's artificial intelligence is defined by people in a certain field, and the most reasonable behavior is calculated according to this target computer program.

Therefore, artificial intelligence is only a tool for human beings and does not have the ability of self-cognition and self-judgment.

(3) What are the common artificial intelligence?

Artificial intelligence is a computer technology that simulates human thinking mode. The program first obtains a large amount of information in a certain field, and then uses data screening to continuously optimize the mathematical function to approach the target result.

Nowadays, artificial intelligence is very common in our daily life, such as intelligent search engine, intelligent translation, speech recognition, intelligent recommendation, automatic driving and so on. Specifically, there are these:

1, intelligent search, enter keywords in Baidu search, and the program will automatically calculate the results that the user may want according to the keywords, and push the results that the user may like or think are correct according to the user's previous browsing data.

2, information APP, daily news push is our easiest concern.

3. Smart advertisements: Baidu, WeChat, etc. Automatically filter what advertisements are displayed according to everyone's preferences to maximize the click probability.

4. Meitu Xiu Xiu: According to the automatically beautified photos stored by users, analyze the data, study users' preferences and optimize the algorithm.

5. Didi: Help drivers choose routes and plan vehicle scheduling schemes.

6. Taobao: According to the user's past purchase behavior, recommend the most likely products.

(4) The future development trend of artificial intelligence.

It is predicted that in the next decade, AI will surpass human beings in the objective field, with clear results, replacing 50% of human work, mainly computable repetitive work.

We will enter a more affluent era. As a tool, AI will create great value for us, and at the same time, we will fall into an era of more anxiety and confusion, afraid of being replaced by AI.

Therefore, although artificial intelligence will not destroy mankind, many people's jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence, and the problem of human unemployment will become more prominent. So now we must keep learning, improve our ability, engage in more complicated work that needs comprehensive thinking and judgment, and avoid being replaced by artificial intelligence.

On the other hand, it is precisely because of the sense of crisis about the threat of artificial intelligence that people will take active actions and formulate more laws and regulations to constrain the development direction of artificial intelligence, so that future artificial intelligence can better help mankind.

So there is no risk that human beings will be destroyed by artificial intelligence.