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Artificial Intelligence

WHAT IS AI?

From SIRI to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. While science fiction often portrays AI as robots with human-like characteristics, AI can encompass anything from Google’s search algorithms to IBM’s Watson to autonomous weapons.

Artificial intelligence today is properly known as narrow AI (or weak AI), in that it is designed to perform a narrow task (e.g. only facial recognition or only internet searches or only driving a car). However, the long-term goal of many researchers is to create general AI (AGI or strong AI). While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, like playing chess or solving equations, AGI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task.

Most researchers agree that a superintelligent AI is unlikely to exhibit human emotions like love or hate, and that there is no reason to expect AI to become intentionally benevolent or malevolent. Instead, when considering how AI might become a risk, experts think two scenarios most likely:

    1 . The AI is programmed to do something devastating: Autonomous weapons are artificial intelligence systems that are programmed to kill. In the hands of the wrong person, these weapons could easily cause mass casualties. Moreover, an AI arms race could inadvertently lead to an AI war that also results in mass casualties. To avoid being thwarted by the enemy, these weapons would be designed to be extremely difficult to simply “turn off,” so humans could plausibly lose control of such a situation. This risk is one that’s present even with narrow AI, but grows as levels of AI intelligence and autonomy increase.

   2 . The AI is programmed to do something beneficial, but it develops a destructive method for achieving its goal: This can happen whenever we fail to fully align the AI’s goals with ours, which is strikingly difficult. If you ask an obedient intelligent car to take you to the airport as fast as possible, it might get you there chased by helicopters and covered in vomit, doing not what you wanted but literally what you asked for. If a super intelligent system is tasked with a ambitious geoengineering project, it might wreak havoc with our ecosystem as a side effect, and view human attempts to stop it as a threat to be met.

3 . Hackers start using AI like financial firms:If banks and credit card firms adopt machine learning to improve their services, so too will hackers. For instance, the report said that criminals could use AI techniques to automate tasks like payment processing, presumably helping them collect ransoms more quickly.

Criminals could also create chatbots that would communicate with the victims of ransomware attacks, in which criminals hold people’s computers hostage until they receive payment. By using software that can talk or chat with people, hackers could conceivably target more people at once without having to actually personally communicate with them and demand payments.

As these examples illustrate, the concern about advanced AI isn’t malevolence but competence. A super-intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we have a problem. You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants. A key goal of AI safety research is to never place humanity in the position of those ants.

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3 of the great things you should know about the Raspberry Pi:

In the year of 2006, the idea of creating an affordable and tiny computer came in the minds of Eben Upton, Jack Lang, Alan Mycroft, and Rob Mullins. And then the Raspberry Pi was created and developed with non-tech users in mind. It was borne out of the need to introduce children and people who are a bit averse to computers to the wonder of computer usage and basic programming. While the initial response was quite mixed, the credit-card sized super mini-computer is now the darling of many computer enthusiasts and students of all ages alike. The design of the Raspberry Pi has now been totally leveraged by the creativity and imagination of modern day users.

 1 .  It’s so small – the size of a credit card, can literally fit in your pocket. With a thickness that is less than an inch; the Pi can be integrated well into different devices because it will never take up that much space. You can plug it into your TV or monitor by connecting it with a standard keyboard and a mouse.

  2 .   It’s energy efficient – the Raspberry Pi only uses around 5 to 7 watts of power. Compare this to a full-sized computer and you will greatly appreciate the large difference in energy efficiency. Different models of Raspberry Pi do not require the same kind of power supply. All the models come with a 5V micro USB. Though, to use the Raspberry Pi for different purposes, the power consumption may vary, but for most of the applications to run, a 1.2A power supply will be enough. You need to have a 2.5A power supply to use all the four USB ports of the Raspberry Pi models B+/2B, though.

 3 . There are no moving parts – the Raspberry Pi is so small and well-designed that there are no moving parts that can lead to noise. There are no cooling fans are dedicated, hard drive. The hardware parts include HDMI sockets, RCA video, audio jacks for USB 2.0 and 3.5mm, Broadcom processor, and micro USB  connector for power supply. What you have however is an SD card interface for your storage and booting purposes.