How Smart is Today's Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
Every week, the Wonder Newsroom asks our community to pose questions on topics confronting our world today.
We answered your Qs about Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI and Machine Learning have proven to be the most transformative, door-opening innovations in the history of tech– let alone the history of humankind. However, the data-hungry practice of making computer systems mimic natural intelligence can also be far from an ethical one: With great power, comes great responsibility.
Check out what's inside this week's Wonder Newsroom:
How fast is AI progressing?
What countries are hiring the most for AI jobs?
Which professions are the most likely to be replaced by AI?
... And more!
LEAN, MEAN, LEARNING MACHINES:
HOW CLOSE IS AI TO THE HUMAN MIND?
Organic brains are millions of times more energy efficient than AI. A human brain uses about as much energy as a light bulb, while a supercomputer uses the energy of a village.
Studies have found at least 200 ongoing bias tendencies in the human brain. These biases can still lead to reasonable outcomes, especially when time cost is considered, but human brains quite often deviate from rationality and logic, whereas AI can not.
AI lacks some of the common sense needed to drive a car. It is not capable of understanding that physical objects can disappear from vision, but still exist, nor that objects in motion can follow a predictable path.From 2012 to 2018, the amount of computing power used to train AI models doubled every 3.4 months– or a 3,000x growth multiplier. In comparison, the # of transistors on microchips, which progressed as per Moore's law, doubled every 2 years.
DOMO ARIGATO, MR. ROBOTO:
WHICH PROFESSIONS WILL BE REPLACED BY AI?
According to the World Economic Forum, by 2025, AI will displace 85 million jobs but create 97 million new AI jobs.
The number of customer sales representative jobs is expected to decrease by 2.0% between 2019 and 2029 as nearly two-thirds of service businesses have already implemented automation.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the number of news-related positions (e.g., news analysts, public relations specialists, reporters, journalists) will fall from 52,000 in 2019 to about 46,200 in 2029.
According to the BLS, the number of computer programmers will decline from 214,000 in 2019 to 194,000 by 2029.
Source: Unikorea
GROWTH IN THE MACHINE:
HOW WILL AI SHAPE THE FUTURE OF WORK?
In 2021, AI patents filed were 30x higher than in 2015, representing a 76.9% annual growth rate.
Large-scale usage of artificial intelligence is expected to contribute about $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030.
AI will play a vital role in preventing almost 86% of the mistakes made in the healthcare industry and will be better than humans at performing surgeries by 2053.
The global AI in transportation is projected to reach $3.5 billion by 2023 and $387 billion by 2026. IEEE Spectrum found that a prediction has autonomous cars handling 70% of all miles driven by 2035.
A DEEPER DIVE:
WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
Check out Wonder's historical overview of AI since Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts first published their AI-related mathematical model in 1943, HERE.
CURIOSITY CORNER – THE TRUE CRIME QUIZ
What test (named after its inventor in 1950) aims to distinguish a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human?
What 4 female-voiced, AI-enabled voice assistants make up 92.4% of the US market share?
Thought to be one of the earliest depictions of AI, which Greek god of blacksmiths was assisted in their work by golden "robots"?
When asked for their take on AI, which late astrophysicist stated: "It's either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity, we do not yet know which."?
Which AI, initially developed to answer questions on Jeopardy!, won $1 million on the show in 2011?
1) Turing Test 2) Cortana, Siri, Alexa, & Google Assistant 3) Hephaestus 4) Stephen Hawking 5) IBM Watson
