Pick 89 - Artificial Intelligence

 

According to Adelyn Zhou, a leading voice in AI and the Marketing Director for Chainlink, there are seven types of artificial intelligence:

 

1) Act- systems that act based off rules like a smoke detector or cruise control.

2) Predict- systems that are capable of analyzing data and producing probabilistic predictions based on the data, like targeted ads or suggested content.

3) Learn- systems that make judgments based off predictions, such as self-driving cars that act based of sensor data coming in.

4) Create- systems that create based off data, such as designing an art piece, architecting buildings, or composing music.

5) Relate- systems that pick up emotions based of facial, text, voice, and body language analysis, such as voice to text application and facial scan technology.

6) Master- systems that transfer intelligence across domains, such as recognizing that four different pictures all represent the same idea/word.

7) Evolve- systems that can upgrade themselves at the software or hardware level, such as humans in the future having the ability to download intelligence into their brain like it’s software.

In each of these seven types of AI individual humans are the clients of the service they provide. Whether that service is as simple as activating a smoke detector alarm or as complex as porting raw knowledge directly into our brains, the focus is always on us as individuals. So what happens when AI evolves to the point where that focus is turned toward a more global perspective? Who will be empowered to set the rules for an extra-human system so powerful that it can impact any or all humans on planet earth? How might the influence of AI on human life grow over the next fifty years? What is the hidden value in that growth?