{"id":30150,"date":"2016-09-14T09:49:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/8-takes-on-the-rise-of-ai-and-its-implications"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:15:53","slug":"8-takes-on-the-rise-of-ai-and-its-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/8-takes-on-the-rise-of-ai-and-its-implications","title":{"rendered":"8 Takes on the Rise of AI and Its Implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/8-takes-on-the-rise-of-ai-and-its-implications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, it\u2019s been exciting watching advances in AI like IBM\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2011\/01\/13\/watch-the-watson-computer-kick-jeopardys-ass-video\/\">Watson<\/a> smashing humans at Jeopardy and Google\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/02\/06\/how-googles-ai-beat-a-human-at-go-a-decade-earlier-than-expected\/\">AlphaGo AI<\/a> beating champions at the game of Go a decade earlier than expected. But the sophisticated algorithms under the hood are really the stars of the show.<\/p>\n<p>These powerful computing systems are <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/05\/05\/machines-wont-replace-us-theyll-force-us-to-evolve\/\" target=\"_blank\">fundamentally changing industries<\/a> and automating a growing number of day-to-day tasks. At the same time, AI still isn\u2019t perfect, and we\u2019ve seen hints of its potential dark side. Our algorithms are only <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/weve-already-taught-artificial-intelligence-to-be-racist-sexist\" target=\"_blank\">as good as the data we feed them<\/a>. And there\u2019s been a <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/12\/09\/can-ai-save-us-from-ai\/\">spirited debate about existential dangers down the road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look into some of the topics leading the dialogue as AI technology evolves into its next generation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/13\/8-takes-on-the-rise-of-ai-and-its-implications\/?utm_content=bufferda425&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/13\/8-takes-on-the-rise-of-...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, it\u2019s been exciting watching advances in AI like IBM\u2019s Watson smashing humans at Jeopardy and Google\u2019s AlphaGo AI beating champions at the game of Go a decade earlier than expected. But the sophisticated algorithms under the hood are really the stars of the show. These powerful computing systems are fundamentally changing industries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66245,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150\/revisions\/66245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}