{"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:\/\/www.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

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…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s an old joke in computer science that goes like this: what\u2019s the difference between AI and automation? Well, automation is what we can<\/em> do with computers, and AI is what we wish<\/em> 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

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 Wikipedia<\/a>, AI is \u201cintelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals.\u201d That’s about as vague as you can get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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’s capable of general reasoning and human-like intelligence while surpassing human capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weak AIs are highly specialized algorithms designed to answer specific, useful questions in narrowly defined problem domains. A\u00a0really 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 Read more: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… There\u2019s an old joke in computer science that goes like this: what\u2019s the difference between AI and automation? Well, automation is what we can do with computers, and AI is what we wish we could do. As […]<\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t