Artificial intelligence on Science, Environment, Technology, and Society, by Diganta Chaudhuri

Presented By: Diganta Chaudhuri (US16009)XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BHUBANESHWARXAVIER SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY

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).

AI: SCIENCE

• System Demonstrated Intelligence.

• AI research uses tools and insights from many fields, including computer science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, operations research, economics, control theory, probability, optimization and logic.

• Robotics, control systems, scheduling, data mining, logistics, speech recognition, facial recognition also included.

AI: ENVIRONMENT

• AI in the environment is mostly a force for good.

• Robots can operate in hazardous situations.

• Automated instruments can be placed in remote places.

• Can lead to earlier, more accurate warnings.

AI: TECHNOLOGY• Human-machine collaboration.

• Better and cheaper sensors make a robot more able to understand and respond to its environment.

• Robot bodies are becoming more adaptive and flexible, with designers taking inspiration from the extraordinary flexibility and dexterity of complex biological structures.

• And robots are becoming more connected, benefiting from the cloud-computing revolution by being able to access instructions and information remotely.

• Using GPS technology, just like smartphones, robots are beginning to be used in precision agriculture.

• Dexter Bot, Baxter and LBR iiwa, are designed to be easily programmable and to handle manufacturing tasks that are laborious or uncomfortable for human workers.

AI: SOCIETY• Societies will face challenges in realizing technologies.

• Surging capabilities of robots and artificial intelligence will see a range of current jobs supplanted.

• Business Perspective: There will be big winners and losers as collaborative technologies, robots and artificial intelligence transform the nature of work.

• Role of a senior manager in a deeply data-driven world is going to shift.

• Judgments about consumers and potential consumers will be made instantaneously.

• Cybersecurity will be at par with other intelligence and defense priorities.

WHY RESEARCH AI SAFETY? • In the near term, the goal of keeping AI’s impact on society beneficial motivates research in many

areas, from economics and law to technical topics such as verification, validity, security and control.

• It becomes all the more important that an AI system does what you want it to do.

• By inventing revolutionary new technologies, such a superintelligence might help us eradicate war, disease, and poverty, and so the creation of strong AI (AGI) might be the biggest event in human history.

• Align the goals of the AI with ours before it becomes super-intelligent.

• Research today will help us better prepare for and prevent such potentially negative consequences in the future, thus enjoying the benefits of AI while avoiding pitfalls.

HOW CAN AI BE DANGEROUS?

• The AI is programmed to do something devastating.

• The AI is programmed to do something beneficial, but it develops a destructive method for achieving its goal.

CONCLUSION

QUESTIONS?