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| Figure 1: WALL-E says "HELLO!" |
Hello there, my name's WALL-E!(Figure 1) Have you ever wondered what operates and controls everything from your phone to your computer or even recommends certain posts to you on social media? If so, you might be interested in learning about artificial intelligence or AI for short. AI is a form of computer code that makes it so that electronics can do certain things that you can do as well such as doing math, and sometimes speaking. The only thing separating humans and computers, or in my case robots, in terms of thinking capability. is a test called the Turing test. The idea behind the Turing test is that although machines are able to answer questions that they are programmed to be able to answer, they could not think or feel properly enough to have an engaging conversation. So although I might be able to answer a question like "What color is the sky?", a more open-ended question like "How do you feel?" might pose a problem for a machine such as myself. [1]
INSIDE YOUR PHONE!
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| Figure 2: Siri |
There are many examples of AI just in your phone! Things like Siri (Figure 2) or Alexa, the personal assistants in your phone, are examples of AI. Other examples of AI include such things as: targeted advertising algorithms, social media bots, and robots. With that in mind most AI fall into two types, narrow and general. The difference between these two is that narrow AI is programmed to do a very specific task and cannot stray from it, while general AI is programmed to be more adaptable and do many different things depending on a certain situation. If you were climbing the monkey bars and trying to get to the other side and there was someone in the way what would you do? If you froze up and didn't know what to do you would be acting like a narrow AI. While if you either waited for them to get to the other side or go to a different part of the playground and do something else, you would be acting like a general AI. [2] In this aspect, I myself would be an example of general AI as I can do many things besides my primary goal of picking up trash. (Figure 3)
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| Figure 3: WALL-E and a rubix cube |
Although I am an example of friendly AI, there are many forms of AI out there that are potentially harmful to you. Theses harmful AI can do things like: spread fake news, steal your information, or even target you with specific advertising based off of your previous searches. All in all, AI is something which can help you and your life, and which certainly helped me, but must be cautioned and developed carefully as not to cause problems in the future. I hope that with me by your side you learned a little more about AI and some of its pitfalls. Anyways off to collect more trash!
References:
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| Figure 4: Off to collect more trash! |
1. Kartik, J. (2014). How is AI made? Retrieved from https://www.quora.com/How-is-AI-made
2. Inside Science (Producer). (2016). Artificial intelligence: Part 1, Broken down and explained. Retrieved from https://fod.infobase.com
3. WALL-E [Screenshot] (n.d.). Retrieved from http://wallethemovie.wikia.com/wiki/WALL-E
4. Siri [Screenshot] (2016). Retrieved from https://www.macworld.com/article/3106088/ios/sirious-mistakes.html
5. WALL-E and a Rubix Cube [Screenshot] (2014). Retrieved from http://www.psycritic.com/2014/11/why-i-love-wall-e-and-question-aca.html
6. WALL-E and the Trash Heap [Screenshot] (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/570549846512048086/
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