Last week I was reading a book
with subject about Science and religion. It touched some questions of where we
“HUMANS” came from and where are “WE” heading? A question, almost all of us would have
wondered about in some point of our lives.
As I continued reading, I really
got intrigued about the fact that how we are evolving at every step of life. Although
we all have read or learnt about Darwins theory of Evolution, we never realize
that it is a continuous process. And you and me, yes you and me are also part
of this process.
As we are evolving as homo-sapiens,
same time there is a new species of beings that are getting evolved in our
world. And slowly we are being consumed by these species and we are turning
into slaves to these species. It is no brainer that I am talking about
Artificial Intelligence as the subject mentions it at subject line of this post.
But how is this artificial intelligence taking over? Because technology is in
our control.. Right?
I will tell why I wrote about it
today…
In morning I was texting to a
friend. Yesterday my phone fell and since then my phone has been acting funny.
I realized that touch has gone very sensitive and when I touch one word to
type, it was selecting 2-3 words surrounding that word. This was making texting
difficult, so I started using suggestions shared by the google keyboard.
To my surprise, the words
suggested are exactly what I generally use texting as per the person I am
sending the message to.
For example, when I typed “I will go on.. “ suggestions were “the / a / Bike”. I was wondering why did
it not offer me suggestions “car / bike /
cycle”.
It is because I generally write
that I go on bike, which is stored in its data as per my communication.
Well then I tried different
combination which I generally use, my device suggested exactly what I would
have written. However, when I inserted messages which I wrote first time or
used word which I generally do not use, it suggested generic words.
It dawned to me that AI is not something
which is coming in near future like we read in newspaper. Artificial Intelligence
is there in our lives already. It is slowly evolving at every point, looking at
us, learning about us and upgrading itself with each moment. World what we see
today is believed to be result of millions of years evolution. But with time,
even machines are evolving and slowly consuming us, making us crippled without
them.
And there will be a day when we
will reach a point that AI will be superior and our species will extinct. It
will be like how speak about Neanderthals, 50 years down the line the future
human machine will talk about us homo sapiens.
Ironic but true!!!
