The document discusses a conference presentation on artificial intelligence and liquefying data. It covers topics like using AI for logistics tasks, the potential and challenges of AI, different types of algorithms, and how AI can be used for social good applications like predicting poverty, optimizing agriculture, and diagnosing glaucoma. The presentation argues that AI can help address major challenges like eradicating poverty and improving access to health services and education.
10. THREE KINDS OF ALGORITHMS
Narrow AI
Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI)
Superintelligence
Supervised Learning Reinforcement Learning Unsupervised Learning
The 3 Types of AI
Narrow AI
Narrow AI is non-sentient machine intelligence, typically focused on a narrow task.
Narrow AI is the only class of AI that’s currently seeing real world success. For example: AI Chip Saves Google a dozen new data centers, Autonomous swarms of DoD drones, a predictive comedy keyboard trained on scripts, and more. What our company creates (AI driven customer data management & insights) is also an example of Narrow AI. Some products, like your phone, are the product of many narrow AIs working in unison such as voice recognition, predictive text and data management.
Many businesses are at the point where they are sorting out where in their operations it makes sense to apply a narrow AI. Our customers, for example, are at the point where the scale of their data and the complexity of their customer interactions have made traditional hands on approaches to customer marketing unwieldy and expensive. We help them by adding AIs to their data & marketing process to automate and accelerate many of the more intensive data tasks they rely on.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - (hypothetical)
AGI is a machine with the ability to apply intelligence to any problem, rather than a specific and predefined set of problems. It is thought of as being “at least as smart as a typical human”. This does not exist yet, but as we push the boundaries of narrow AI, we’re getting closer.
Defense is one industry looking closely at the feasibility of AGI as a next step from the narrow AI systems already in use. For example, JASON, a DoD advisory group recently published a study on AI feasibility in defense which is a great read if you’re interested in the topic.
JASON says, “AI technologies are of great importance to DoD missions. Defense systems and platforms with varying degrees of autonomy already exist. More importantly, AI is seen as the key enabling technology (along with human-computer interactions of various kinds) of a ‘Third Offset Strategy’ that seeks for the U.S. a unique, asymmetric advantage over near-peer adversaries.”
They go on to say “While many existing DoD weapon systems “have some degree of ‘autonomy’ relying on the technologies of AI, they are in no sense a step–not even a small step–towards ‘autonomy’ in the sense of AGI, that is, the ability to set independent goals or intent,”
One interesting takeaway here is that AI systems replacing actual soldiers in conflict zones would result in an unemployment that’s actually beneficial for those displaced. Other industries, like manufacturers and truck drivers may not be so lucky.
Beyond the technical and engineering limitations we’re faced with, AGI also brings many moral and societal questions that haven’t yet been answered. Would it be right to create and control a new sentient being? Will our goals align? For a great dive into this, listen to Sam Harris interview Max Tegmark, an MIT Physicist and AI thinker. This talk reflects on the nature of intelligence, the risks of superhuman AI, the idea of a non biological definition of life, the substrate independence of minds, the relevance and irrelevance of consciousness for the future of AI, near-term breakthroughs in AI, and other topics.
Superintelligence - (hypothetical)
Superintelligence is an AI far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds.
Where AGI is hardly on the horizon, superintelligence is much more uncertain. A godlike AI seems like a huge leap, but many scientists caution that the moment we unlock AGI, the exponential power of AI could rocket from AGI to superintelligence. Many warn that this is something that needs to be approached carefully as we barrel down the path of ever more sophisticated AI.
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