Since 2016, artificial intelligence has entered the news more and more frequently. In fact, as a girl in science and engineering, my dream since I was young is to hope to enter the era of artificial intelligence sooner.
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When I was a kid, my favorite science fiction novel was Ye Yonglie's "Little Smart: A Tour of the Future." The water drop car inside, the switch, speed, and altitude are all operated on the keyboard. The water drop car can automatically avoid collisions and brake automatically. There are robots in this book, and the police are all robots.
Later, I watched "Star Wars". I especially liked the Attu robot in it. He was honest and not talkative, but he was very loyal and very capable.
Of course, in modern science fiction films, the relationship between humans and machines becomes more complicated. For example, in "AI", humans are eventually replaced by machines, and in "The Matrix", humans are controlled by machines.
Perhaps, humans will eventually be replaced by machines, and silicon-based organisms will replace carbon-based organisms, just as Harari predicted in "A Brief History of the Future." Many people now believe this view.
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Because humans are too slow to learn and evolve compared to robots. We humans often say, what does artificial intelligence do? Can it think independently? Will it have emotions? Maybe there are still many things that artificial intelligence cannot do, but as long as something breaks through, then in a short time, artificial intelligence Intelligence leaves humans far behind, and humans will never catch up with machines.
For example, Go. Go is the most difficult of all chess types, because the rules are the most open and the settings are the smallest. Someone once calculated that there are (5*10^359) ways to play Go (359 is an exponent), which is an astronomical number. Because of this huge number, artificial intelligence has never surpassed humans. In other board games, humans have long been surpassed by artificial intelligence. Therefore, humans are quite proud and think they are smarter than machines.
But in 2015, AlphaGo turned out. AlphaGo first played chess with lesser-known players and won. In 2016, AlphaGo played against Lee Sedol, one of the world's top chess players. Lee Sedol lost the game 1:4.
However, Li Shishi was very proud of his record when he saw the next game, because later humans never won a game of chess, and the world's number one master Ke Jie lost 0:3.
Moreover, AlphaGo’s company, DeepMind, launched the new AlphaGo Zero six months after winning Ke Jie. It does not learn from human chess records and learns from scratch. Soon after only 3 days of learning, AlphaGo Zero defeated AlphaGo by 100:0. Now DeepMind has launched a new generation of AlphaZero. It can not only play Go but also chess.
The gap between human beings and it is getting bigger and bigger.
There is also a robot dog developed by Boston Dynamics. Every few months, the company will release a video of the robot dog. I watch it every time. It really seems to be watching the robot dog grow up. Now it can be said that the robot dog is just like a superhuman, omnipotent. I sometimes think that robot dogs must follow Asimov's robot principle: not to harm humans. Because the robot dog is too powerful, it will turn its face one day, and people in front of it will be as fragile as a paper man.
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In addition to the Alpha Dog and Robot Dog just mentioned, artificial intelligence has actually been applied in many places.
Autonomous driving is the fastest growing in the United States, and China has also caught up in the past two years. In Beijing, everyone can make an appointment for Baidu's driverless taxi experience. It is said that a lot of people have signed up. I eagerly tried it a few times, but didn't dare. However, it is officially opened, and I am definitely going to take a seat.
A while ago, Tesla’s boss Elon Musk had a conversation with Academician Xue Qikun. Elon Musk talked about intelligent transportation and three-dimensional tunnels. When the three-dimensional tunnel comes out, it's almost like the drop car with the PHS.
Traffic in the city is more complicated, and in certain specific scenarios, unmanned driving is more useful. For example, in the docks of the port, unmanned trucks can be used completely, as well as transportation traffic on specific routes in the factory. It is said that the most useful is the long-distance transport vehicle. Because long-distance transportation is very hard, people nowadays are reluctant to do it. If it is driverless, there is no fatigue driving, and the driving conditions are not as complicated as in the city. This application is very good.
Two days ago, I watched a Huawei documentary filmed by a Japanese director about the unmanned dock, which was very shocking. Originally, the crane was operated manually on the high tower crane. After 20 years of work, the operator's waist was lost and he couldn't straighten his waist. It is remote control now, just like playing games. Now there are more and more unmanned factories.
There is also face recognition, which is also very powerful. In the past few years, Tsinghua University engaged in electronic alumni cards, and it had to upload its current photos for comparison. I looked at the photos when I enrolled, and while sighing that the years were a pig-killing knife, I wondered, can this be the same person? I found that there were no problems at all, and the AI was easily completed.
There was once a very popular Jacky Cheung concert to catch fugitives. In fact, the fugitive must change his appearance as much as possible intentionally or unintentionally, but under the AI, there is nowhere to hide. AI's face recognition ability is many times stronger than that of humans, and it is also very easy to recognize people in motion. I estimate that in modern society, apart from scammers and passionate murders, other cases will be much less, because what you did is immediately monitored, and some are powerful, you can be reminded on the spot and caught on the spot.
In addition to these, there are some intelligent robots that are also very useful. My friend is now looking for a robot that can help the elderly turn over. The old man in her family is in poor health and is bedridden. She is the only one in the family. Her waist is not good enough. This kind of robot is desperately needed.
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From the perspective of technological development and application, artificial intelligence is a blue ocean and has just started. Academician Yao Qizhi of Tsinghua University said that at the very beginning of artificial intelligence, there have not been figures such as Newton and Einstein, and great figures are expected to emerge in this field.
However, the technology and application prospects are very good, which does not mean that it is friendly to each of us. Everyone must have a sense of worry.
A few days ago, I watched a video. Said that although artificial intelligence has reduced the number of jobs by 80 million, it has added more than 90 million jobs. I don't care about the accuracy of this number.
I just want to say that although the number of posts has increased, it may not be with you. Back then, the first batch of workers in the UK were coal diggers. Later, with electricity and steam, new jobs were added a lot, but these coal diggers were eliminated, and they were definitely not qualified for the new jobs.
Therefore, we must also be aware of this. As an education blogger, I want to remind everyone that everyone must be brave to learn new knowledge and new content, so that they can survive and live better in the magnificent smart economy.