Author: Eric V

While reading through the article, “The Future of AI: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the World”, I’ve found that Artificial Intelligence is getting close to answering questions that us humans are dying to get answers to. The reason why is because AI does not fully understand human languages so when it does, we are one step closer to AI fetching answers humans could not find on their own. Writer Mike Thomas states, “However, if we reach a point where AI is able to understand our languages, AI systems would be able to read and understand everything ever written. ‘Once we have that capability, you could then query all of human knowledge and it would be able to synthesize and integrate and answer questions that no human being has ever been able to answer,’ Russell add,” Thomas, the writer of this article, got his information from an internationally renowned AI expert, Stuart Russell, so for a AI expert to say that all AI truly needs is to learn human languages to answer questions or problems that humans can’t solve, then I’d say we are pretty close to a self teaching Artificial intelligence.

My research question is, are we close or are we still far from self teaching artificial intelligence? I want to research more about this question because I truly don’t know how far or how close we are to AI being fully self aware and able to teach itself. I’ve always wondered when will we reach the limit for the evolution of technology? So researching about artificial intelligence and what humans have discovered so far can give an idea on where we are. For example, AI is fairly new and is being used already for coding or doing work for humans already. There are different types of AI too that do different jobs already so are we advancing quick? Or do we still have a long way to go? I expect to find new information related to my question and I also expect to find out about different techniques that engineers are using to advance AI. What I mean by how close or far we are in AI is if we are reaching the limit of AI already or is there still more technology to be discovered and if so, are we close?  I hope to find out that we are just at the tip of the iceberg with AI and that we can find a way to use AI to help with humanities most ongoing problems such as global warming or world hunger. AI has a lot of potential, but is that potential a fantasy? Or a soon to be reality?

One thing that I was interested in as a kid was the evolution of our phones and far we have come from one of the first touch only phones ever, to one of the first ever phones that flip into itself. I’ve been interested in phones ever since I can talk and I used to always want my own phone. Even to this day, I still look at videos and reviews about the newest phones that come out to this date and how different they are from any other previous phones. Asking questions like what changed? or what improved? from the previous phones educated me more on phones and the technology behind it. Over the years, I grew more and more interested in the tech that comes in our phones and how advanced it becomes year after year. For example, the iPhone is a very controversial phone nowadays. But I see it as a phone that is getting perfected year after year. The average person sees the iPhone as the same thing year after year, but if you look at everything that apple has changed to it and compare it to the phone that came out the year before, you can see that the changes are for the most part only positive changes. These changes are small, but overtime they will accumulate and make a big difference from around 4-5 years from now. The educational system did not play a major role in my interest in phones since I had to do research on phones on my own time and not during school. I am still very much interested in this topic of phones since I want the newest phone that comes out every year and I look into what has changed from the previous year and if it’s worth upgrading phones.