AI PANIC!

Intelligence is best defined as the ability of an individual to adapt his/her
behavior to new circumstances. Human intelligence is not a single ability but is
rather a composition of abilities like learning, reasoning, problem solving,
perception and understanding of language. Since ancient times, people have been
thinking of designing machines that will replicate human intelligence. The
concept of thinking machines appears in Greek myths like the ‘Talos of Crete’.
John McCarthy coined the term, 'artificial intelligence' in 1956. He defines
artificial intelligence as the science and engineering of making intelligent
machines. AI Researchers hope to invent intelligent machines, which can
perceive, learn and reason like humans. General intelligence is their long-term
goal. By general intelligence they mean to incorporate other    aspects like social
intelligence, judgment, commonsense, robotics and self-awareness into machines.
Researchers dream of bringing into machines, the capacity for wisdom and the
ability to feel.
The modern definition of artificial intelligence (or AI) is "the study and
design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that
perceives its environment and takes actions which maximizes its chances of
success.
The first concern regarding the application of artificial intelligence is about
ethics and moral values. Is it ethically correct to create replicas of human
beings? Do our moral values allow us to recreate intelligence? Intelligence is
after all a gift of nature. It may not be right to install it into a machine to
make it work for our benefit.
Though the idea of machines replacing human beings sounds wonderful as it
appears to save
us from all the pain. But is it really such an exciting idea? Concepts such as
wholeheartedness and dedication in work bear no existence in the world of
artificial intelligence.
If robots begin replacing humans in every field, it may lead to unemployment.
People will be left with nothing to do. Empty time may result in its destructive
use. Thinking machines will govern all the fields and populate all positions
pre-occupied by people.
Apart from all these issues, there is a fear of robots superseding us! Ideally
human beings should continue being the masters of machines. If things turn the
other way round, the world will turn into chaos. Intelligent machines may prove
to be smarter than us; they might enslave us and start ruling the world. Man’s
greedy creativity may endanger mankind!
Artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicted
Vernor Vinge, a world-renowned pioneer in AI, who has warned about the risks and
opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind.
In May 1997, Deep Blue (a robot) won the chess tournament against
Gary Kasparov. It was the first glimpse of a new kind of
intelligence.Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare
could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot
arms race
“They pose a threat to humanity,” said University of Sheffield professor Noel
Sharkey ahead of a keynote address Wednesday before Britain’s Royal United
Services Institute.
Intelligent machines deployed on battlefields around the world — from mobile
grenade launchers to rocket-firing drones — can already identify and lock onto
targets without human help.
Eventually, it is up to you whether to stand by artificial intelligence or warn
yourself of the likely disaster that it may lead to. In my view, there is no
ideal replacement for human beings. Artificial intelligence can help alleviate
the difficulties faced by man but intelligent machines can never be ‘human’.
In my view, AI should be a upto an extent where human beings can deal
with.Afterall, human brain is a product of evolution with a tremendous time, yet
AI is not.It needs enormous time to create the exceeding brain of humans.
Anyway, there is nothing either exceeding or not, but human thinking makes it
so.But as it goes: ' No threat and
no benefit'.