Why are We so Scared of Robots and AI?

 Hello Digital World...

In this blog, we are supposed to deal with Robots and Artificial intelligence. We are asked to watch three short films to understand technology and Robots/AI.

“No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all.”

Video 1

Android Babysitter gets obsessed with his..(Korean Horror Story)

Major concepts of Video

1. An Android Babysitter 

In this short film, there's a mother and a son named jin-Gu and a robot named Dunko who have been living with them for 10 years. who is obsessed with Jin-Gu in the film later on his obsession turns into fascination. Soon Jin-Gu's mother finds a bug in his system and convinces herself to destroy Dunko.  

2. Technology

When it comes to human life technology fails because when it comes to her son she got convinced to destroy Dunko. 

3. Relationship between Dunko and Jin-Gu 

Dunko and Jin-gu were friends for 10 years 

4. Dunko as Ghost

At the very end of the short film, Dunko's ghost threatens Jin-Gu 

Video-2

IMOM

The conflict between mom and Imom.

For those who didn't understand, the imom basically cooked grace, the second child who was an infant because the mother had earlier called her "my little chicken" and had previously given instructions to imom that she was to cook the chicken. The whole video revolves around the concept of corruption by replacing humans with artificial intelligence. The imom is not necessarily evil, as pointed out in a conversation between Sam and imom, Sam is the sheep(innocent) and the imom is not the wolf (evil). The same is the sheep because he is a child who is oblivious and naive. The imom really is neither because the wolf is the mom, who bought into the world of technology and artificial intelligence, and the humans who created, and sponsor it. The mom is just a product who knows neither good nor bad and ended up doing evil (killing the baby) but it was from humanity's sin of relying so much on robots. I see this as a reflection of when Eve was tricked by the snake and bought into the evils and sin by eating the fruit from the forbidden tree. She persuaded Adam to eat it and eventually both were kicked out of Eden. The snake is the human promoting technology that replaces humans, and, eve is the imom and adam is sam. Again, this is how I interpreted this video, feel free to disagree because there can be multiple perspectives and meanings of a story.

Video- 3

Anukul

Satyajit Ray

This long short story's central idea is AI. The Robot named Anukul was set to take care of the house chores. 

What Is AI?

Less than a decade after helping the Allied forces win World War II by breaking the Nazi encryption machine Enigma, mathematician Alan Turing changed history a second time with a simple question: “Can machines think?” 

Turing’s 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” and its subsequent Turing Test established the fundamental goal and vision of AI.   

At its core, AI is the branch of computer science that aims to answer Turing’s question in the affirmative. It is the endeavor to replicate or simulate human intelligence in machines. The expansive goal of AI has given rise to many questions and debates. So much so that no singular definition of the field is universally accepted.

The Future of AI

When one considers the computational costs and the technical data infrastructure running behind artificial intelligence, actually executing AI is a complex and costly business. Fortunately, there have been massive advancements in computing technology, as indicated by Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every two years while the cost of computers is halved.

Although many experts believe that Moore’s Law will likely come to an end sometime in the 2020s, this has had a major impact on modern AI techniques — without it, deep learning would be out of the question, financially speaking. Recent research found that AI innovation has actually outperformed Moore’s Law, doubling every six months or so as opposed to two years