{"id":4011,"date":"2021-08-29T06:04:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T00:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:07:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:37:32","slug":"technology-future-trajectory-of-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/08\/29\/technology-future-trajectory-of-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"177: Technology:  Future Trajectory of Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">AI is going to change the world more than anything in the history of mankind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">&#8211; Kai-Fu Lee<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Artificial Intelligence (AI) has permeated into all aspects of our lives. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">AI tools are everywhere we look. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">AI is\u00a0 delivering tangible benefits across every \u00a0industry one can think about.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\"><strong>Transportation: <\/strong>Although it could take\u00a0a decade or more\u00a0to perfect them, autonomous cars will one day ferry us from place to place.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\"><strong>Manufacturing:\u00a0<\/strong>AI powered robots work alongside humans to perform a limited range of tasks like assembly and stacking, and predictive analysis sensors keep equipment running smoothly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>Healthcare: <\/strong>In the comparatively AI-nascent field of healthcare, diseases are more quickly and accurately diagnosed, drug discovery is sped up and streamlined, virtual nursing assistants monitor patients and big data analysis helps to create a more personalized patient experience.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Education: <\/strong>Textbooks are digitized with the help of AI, early-stage virtual tutors assist human instructors and facial analysis gauges the emotions of students to help determine who\u2019s struggling or bored and better tailor the experience to their individual needs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"><strong>Media: <\/strong>Journalism is harnessing AI, too, and will continue to benefit from it. Bloomberg uses Cyborg technology to help make quick sense of complex financial reports. The Associated Press employs the natural language abilities of Automated Insights to produce 3,700 earning reports stories per year \u2014 nearly four times more than in the recent past.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #333399;\"><strong>Customer Service: <\/strong>Last but hardly least, Google is working on an AI assistant that can place human-like calls to make appointments at, say, your neighbourhood hair salon. In addition to words, the system understands context and nuance.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Future Trajectory<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">Most AI applications today are classified as \u201cnarrow\u201d or \u201cweak\u201d AI, meaning that they usually carry out a specific task they are designed for. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">AI is only just getting started.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Computers will get smarter, quicker, and increasingly become capable of tasks that traditionally are carried out by humans, such as making complex decisions or engaging in creative thought. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Truly intelligent entities would not be designed for one specific task but would be able to carry out many number of tasks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Quantum Powered AI<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;\">Computing power is the engine of AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">Quantum computing, along with other next-level processing capabilities such as biological and neuromorphic computing, is likely to unlock even more possibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Quantum computing is basically, ability of sub-atomic particles to exist in more than one state at the same time. It is theoretically capable of completing some calculations up to <strong>100 trillion times faster <\/strong>than today\u2019s fastest computers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">In order to continually evolve to become smarter, machine learning models will inevitably become larger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #333300;\">\u00a0Additionally, more processing power means we will be able to create larger amounts of \u201csynthetic\u201d data for training purposes, reducing the need for collecting real data to feed into algorithms for many applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003300;\">Other technologies like neuromorphic computing would be able to mimic the \u201celastic\u201d capabilities of the human brain to adapt themselves to processing new forms of information.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Creative AI<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">These days we can see art, music, poetry, and even computer code is being created by AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">This has been made possible by the ongoing development of \u201cgenerative\u201d AI i.e. when Ai creates new data rather than simply analyzing and understanding existing data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #333399;\">With generative AI, analyzing and understanding is the first step of the process. It then takes what it has learned and uses it to build further examples of the models that it has studied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">This ability to create synthetic data will lead us into an era where machines will be doing things we simply haven&#8217;t seen them do before.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ethical and Accountable AI<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003300;\">At the moment, much of the inner workings of today&#8217;s AI is not transparent due to proprietary algorithms or complexity involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">This creates a trust deficit and reluctance to let machines make \u00a0decisions that affect people\u2019s lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #333300;\">If AI is going to live up to its potential, then the smart machines of the near future will have to be more transparent, explainable, and accountable than the ones we&#8217;re familiar with now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #339966;\">Legislative and regulatory changes are likely to be put in place in future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Interesting<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Intel recently unveiled its Loihi processing chip, packed with more than two billion transistors, which is one application that was able to identify ten different types of hazardous material by smell alone \u2013 more quickly and accurately than trained sniffer dogs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Titbits<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Adversial Model \u2013 AI vs AI<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">The most impressive results available today are usually obtained when this is done via an \u201cadversarial\u201d model \u2013 effectively, two AIs are pitted against each other, with one tasked with creating something based on existing data and the other tasked with finding flaws in the new creation. When these flaws are discovered, the creative network (known as the \u201cgenerator\u201d) learns from its mistakes and eventually becomes capable of creating data that its opponent (the \u201cdiscriminator\u201d network) finds increasingly hard to distinguish from the existing data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 18pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Value additions are most welcome<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">For regular updates, please register here<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"IeJdqVYhUL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Subscribe&#8221; &#8212; Air Marshal&#039;s Perspective\" src=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/embed\/#?secret=ZBCwwkH6Y4#?secret=IeJdqVYhUL\" data-secret=\"IeJdqVYhUL\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">References<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/builtin.com\/artificial-intelligence\/artificial-intelligence-future\">https:\/\/builtin.com\/artificial-intelligence\/artificial-intelligence-future<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/background\/benefits-risks-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/background\/benefits-risks-of-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/us\/en\/pages\/consulting\/articles\/the-future-of-ai.html\">https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/us\/en\/pages\/consulting\/articles\/the-future-of-ai.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; AI is going to change the world more than anything in the history of mankind. &#8211; Kai-Fu Lee &nbsp; \u00a0Artificial Intelligence (AI) has permeated into all aspects of our lives. 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