How AI Changes Our World For The Better

People have long feared the rise of the machine – their own creation becoming
smarter and more intelligent than they are. AI has gone from a science-fiction
dream to a critical part of our everyday lives. While artificial intelligence and
machine learning are rapidly changing our world and powering the Fourth
Industrial Revolution, humanity does not need to be afraid.
What’s an AI?
Artificial Intelligence is the use of computer science programming to imitate
human thought and action by analyzing data and surroundings. AI can relieve
humans of various repetitive tasks. The technology can learn work once and
repeat it, as many times as desired by its human programmer. AI makes it
possible for machines to learn from experience, adjust to new inputs and
perform human-like tasks, from chess-playing computers to self-driving cars,
which rely heavily on deep learning and natural language processing.
Creating New Jobs
To begin with, artificial intelligence is able to change the workforce in the
future, according to what some businessmen say. The bleak view of AI as a job
killer is merely one side of the coin: while 75 million jobs may disappear, about
133 million more engaging, less repetitive new roles are expected to be created.
AI is an opportunity for workers to focus on the parts of their jobs that may also
be the most satisfying to them, that is, to avoid the monotonous part of it,
devoting more time to the creative one.
Bridging Language Divides
Moreover, whether it’s teaching new languages in a personalized way or
translating speech and text in real-time, AI-powered language tools from
Duolingo to Skype are bridging social and cultural divides in our workplaces,
classrooms and everyday lives. Digital translation services are yet quite far from
being “perfect,” but “they offer a means of understanding” that might not
otherwise be possible.
Transforming Government
Less paperwork, quicker responses, a more efficient bureaucracy – AI has the
power to drastically change public administration. Still, this tech comes with
both risks and opportunities that need to be understood and evaluated.
Academics believe gamification and role-playing could be the key to public
servants analyzing complex cases, coming up with better solutions, and truly
understanding the future of autonomous systems.
Delivering Health Care
What’s more, AI has the potential to make health care much more accessible
and more affordable. There is already (Babylon) an app that offers symptom
checking and fast access to physicians if needed, and is providing advice to
more than one million residents in central London through an AI-powered
chatbot. Patients can get an accurate, safe, and convenient answer in seconds –
and save health care providers’ money too.
Creating Art
It is worth saying that computational creativity is drastically changing the nature
of art as well. Software, more than a tool, is becoming a creative collaborator,
merging computer scientists with artists. The exhibition space becomes a lab;
art becomes an expression of science, and the artist is the researcher now.
Sum up
Artificial Intelligence has progressed rapidly, and the future is arriving faster
than the predictions shown in various films set in the future. AI will be better
than humans in translating languages by 2024, selling goods by 2031 and
conducting surgeries by 2053. AI will become an integral part of our lives and it
is time to prepare for the age of AI by investing in education and training. The
choice remains ours to upgrade our skills and be part of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution.