{"id":31565,"date":"2019-04-25T03:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=31565"},"modified":"2019-04-25T03:34:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:34:58","slug":"the-basics-of-modern-ai-how-does-it-work-and-will-it-destroy-society-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/25\/the-basics-of-modern-ai-how-does-it-work-and-will-it-destroy-society-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The basics of modern AI\u2014how does it work and will it destroy society this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>AI, or artificial intelligence<\/strong>, is huge right now. \u201cUnsolvable\u201d problems are being solved, billions of dollars are being invested, and Microsoft even hired\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cyberconservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cyber-4062449__340.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31566\" width=\"341\" height=\"157\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s an old joke in computer science that goes like this: what\u2019s the difference between AI and automation?&nbsp;Well, automation is what we&nbsp;<em>can<\/em>&nbsp;do with computers, and AI is what we&nbsp;<em>wish<\/em>&nbsp;we could do. As soon as we figure out how to do something, it stops being AI and starts being automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That joke exists because, even today, AI isn\u2019t well defined\u2014artificial intelligence simply isn\u2019t a technical term. If you were to look it up on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_intelligence\">Wikipedia<\/a>, AI is \u201cintelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals.\u201d That&#8217;s about as vague as you can get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally, there are two kinds of AI: strong AI and weak AI. Strong AI is what most people might be thinking of when they hear AI\u2014some god-like omniscient intelligence like Skynet or Hal 9000 that&#8217;s capable of general reasoning and human-like intelligence while surpassing human capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weak AIs are highly specialized algorithms designed to answer specific, useful questions in narrowly defined problem domains. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2017\/12\/deepmind-ai-needs-mere-4-hours-of-self-training-to-become-a-chess-overlord\/\">really good chess-playing program<\/a>, for example, fits this category. The same goes for software that\u2019s really accurate in adjusting insurance premiums. These AI setups are impressive in their own way but very limited overall.\u00a0  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/features\/2019\/04\/from-ml-to-gan-to-hal-a-peak-behind-the-modern-artificial-intelligence-curtain\/&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYASoTODUyOTUyMjE4NTQ1ODMwMjc1MDIaNDc3ZTJlNTE2ZWYxZDQ3OTpjb206ZW46VVM&amp;usg=AFQjCNGzOGJowAno2DYNq4EK7rXE4Wvqcg\">Read more: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI, or artificial intelligence, is huge right now. \u201cUnsolvable\u201d problems are being solved, billions of dollars are being invested, and Microsoft even hired\u00a0&#8230; There\u2019s an old joke in computer science that goes like this: what\u2019s the difference between AI and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/25\/the-basics-of-modern-ai-how-does-it-work-and-will-it-destroy-society-this-year\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[638,640],"tags":[639,641],"class_list":["post-31565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}