Shulou(Shulou.com)06/02 Report--

In the last two years, artificial intelligence has been so popular that even Android has been a little compared (joking, Android is still hot, although the momentum is leveling off, and the key is the scarcity of Android masters), even Kotlin and Go are a little overshadowed.

Artificial intelligence was actually put forward as early as the 1950s, and it is not a new concept.

However, the performance of computers at that time was too poor to be compared with today's computers, and it took a lot of high-speed operations to train useful data. No matter how plump the dream is, the reality is too bony. Of course, the algorithm and architecture at that time were not good enough.

At that time, some people were worried that artificial intelligence was about to replace human beings. Then, of course, nothing happened, and artificial intelligence entered the first "cold winter".

Therefore, I think that in the face of artificial intelligence, we should first of all be calm and size up the situation calmly. Don't follow suit and don't get hot-headed.

Today, when artificial intelligence is everywhere, you are not engaged in work that has little to do with artificial intelligence, so you resolutely quit your job to study artificial intelligence.

So was the previous wave of AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality). Many people started their own businesses to do AR or VR, or even mixed reality (MR,Mixed Reality, which is a combination of AR and VR), and many VR helmets were made.

As a result, the market does not pay the bill, there is no rigid demand, and then enter the AR / VR winter. But the momentum has improved a little recently. So don't follow the trend blindly, it's easy to lose.

In fact, the current artificial intelligence is still in a relatively primary stage. Jack Ma said: "artificial intelligence should do things that computers are good at but humans are not good at."

In fact, many of today's artificial intelligence is just to imitate what humans do, far from the level of machine intelligence, far from Iron Man's assistant Jarvis, it can only be said to be "artificial mental retardation".

In fact, we are still far from the truly amazing artificial intelligence. After all, the human brain is so powerful that it can't be difficult or easy to imitate for a while.

What's more, human beings have not really created life to this day. The previous "successful" case of "Dolly Sheep" was just "copying life", cloning a life with existing cells, but there was no great breakthrough at all, and the Dolly Sheep died soon after.

We should be in awe of life and always be curious about this wonderful nature.

The next question: will artificial intelligence exterminate the human race?

At present, most industry professionals and some elites are basically divided into two groups:

1. To Dr. Hawking, Elon. The AI threat School represented by Musk

two。 Emak. The "AI usefulness Theory" represented by Zuckerberg

Musk had previously been at odds with Zuckerberg on Twitter, and Musk said Zuckerberg had a shallow understanding of it.

Personally, I support the theory of "the usefulness of AI". I do not support those who advocate that AI will exterminate mankind.

In the past, when robots and computers were created, human beings also panicked. Otherwise, how could there be so many movies about robots fighting humans? And we won't have the Terminator series.

And it has been predicted for a long time that the world will end in 2012 and that human beings will be dominated by robots. Now that it's 2017, do robots dominate? No.

Of course, today's AI is much better than ordinary robots at that time, but it still has its limitations.

Some of the reasons have been mentioned above:

First, the current AI is only at the level of "artificial mental retardation".

The second is: the greatest enemy of mankind will always be ourselves. Environmental problems, terrorist attacks, wars, fights, fraud, all kinds of social problems, "the human heart is more deceitful than anything else." Compared with the human heart, AI is really too simple.

Of course, we should also be on guard against AI. Because I think it is possible that some AI will acquire some "thoughts" that we can't control in the process of continuous learning.

Of course, AI is not born with independent thinking, but it may suddenly "make" some "judgments" that are more threatening to human beings.

That's why I encourage all programmers to learn about AI. If you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without defeat.

So to sum up:

1. We should not be pessimistic about AI, but should pay attention to it and know how to guard against it.

two。 As a programmer, you have to keep up with the times, and now it's time to get started with AI.

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