Looping In Your New Sidekick: The Future Of Humans Under Artificial Intelligence
Chapter I
THE PROBLEM
Introduction
The rise of digital life has brought the greatest leap forward of humans. It makes the world very advance disrupting eons-old activities in making its own way to social upheaval through its rays of advancement. If you would focus your attention to the surroundings, you will realize that this quick change of technology has transformed society, politics, communication, and culture that stuck people into a technological environment leaving the life of humans to modernization including the birth of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is making rapid strides in a talk of new evolution that could fundamentally change life on our planet for it has the potential to revolutionize every aspect of daily life, work mobility, and the economy. But will AI really augment human capacities and make people lives better in the next decade? What are the concerns about how advance in AI affect what it means to be human?
Artificial Intelligence is a branch of computer science that has the ability to learn and think involving the manipulation of a program that is heavily relied on the human intelligence. It started in the year 1950 when a computer scientist and technology pioneer named Alan Turing presented a test for machine Intelligence to humans. The term Artificial Intelligence was coined by John McCarthy as he said that “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions, and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves”. With origins dating back to the 1950s, the rise of AI is not already new to the vocabulary of the majority as it is being-eyed to the public worldwide in enabling its dynamic pace of development as one of the emerging technologies which tend to revive human reasoning in AI systems. That being said, it is possible for AI to develop making it more autonomous and capable of performing more and greater functions vastly.
The AI trend of technology is continuously accelerating and is being utilized by the different areas like in the field of education, medicine, business, engineering, and arts in different countries, even the Philippines. Here in the country, people can evidently see the status of technology introducing the AI to the people. On its brighter side, AI can amplify the works of what humans can do by eliminating the works of tedious tasks as it has the ability to reduce the drudgery in every task. In that particular manner, it is absolutely clear that AI on the lives of some may be beneficial but all emit rays of light has its own dark sides. Many focused their optimism in the advantages of AI. However, expressed concerns about its long-term impact had resulted to bring seismic fear to everyone.
The experts asserted that artificial intelligence will improve human effectiveness but also bring dire and enormous threats to human autonomy, agency and capabilities. They think of a wide-ranging possibilities that this technology will not only level but to exceed human intelligence and capabilities on tasks such as complex decision-making, reasoning and learning, visual acuity, speech recognition and language translation (Anderson, 2018).
Research on Artificial Intelligence is quite important as many researches worked on its formation bringing knowledge to the people about its importance that AI is helpful and have prodigious technological opportunities to humans but the researchers identified an apparent knowledge gap in the prior research concerning the benefits of AI in the lives of people. Many researches tackled the present effects of this technology but the struggles and concerns of the people should be explored further to provide an understanding in order to raise awareness to the people and to shed light on the issues and struggles encountered every single day that will be determined by this research.
There is a tendency that the world will not need manpower or human resources anymore for they might possibly accompany the use of robots and machineries to all fields and facets of humanity for life. AI makes things easier for humans but this is a big issue because people will get dependent and indolent for they will lean their lives on AI deeply.
AI has the potential to bring significant help to life, but issues of this technology must also be identified to draw an idea on how this technology will improve the lives of humans, the economy and the future of the country. That is why, conducting research on Artificial Intelligence is necessary to humans because this research will help them to determine the challenges and problems as well as the positive impacts of AI to people most especially the Filipinos that will raise understanding and cognizance about this particular phenomenon in order to provide ideas on how to prevent and to put an end to the dilemma that would drastically affect the future of humans.