How artificial intelligence and robots change society, how should humans capture society and live in the future?

ByDuncan Street

Reproduce human intelligence with computerArtificial intelligence(AI) research and development advanced, smartphone applicationsJudge the content of the photo and find out what to shareIn the way that it will take us, we are able to incorporate even to familiar places. It is said in a column quarterly announced by McKinsey & Company of consulting company how this society will look like this as the machine evolves as it is.

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In the 2010s, artificial intelligence has been evolving at a pace that exceeds human understanding. In 2017, DeepMind's artificial intelligence "AlphaGo"I broke the most powerful player of the human race with a game of goIf I think about it, about half a year laterIt reached the world's strongest without anyone being taughtAlthough the event of happening is happening, AI which is installed in the automatic driving car which development proceeds,Automated stock trading with AIOr,If you give even data you write a sentence like a humanAI is entering society while AI is born, while not knowing.

It is a society in the midst of a rapidly changing world, but humans have repeatedly undergone similar changes many times. Long ago agriculture began to settle as people settled and a great society was born. In the industrial revolution that occurred in the 18th century, industrial and economic progresses greatly, and the society of people changed greatly until then. And from the second half of the 20th century to the 21st century, many people realize that their lives have changed significantly due to "a big change since the Industrial Revolution" due to remarkable evolution of computer technology. As you can see, humans have gradually changed the way of the world or "way of production" by using the "tools" which probably originated from "wooden sticks" etc at the beginning.

ByJosé Luís Agapito

However, the big difference between the changes so far and the changes in the 21st century is that "technology is about to overtake human beings". The fundamental principle of a computer is "just a calculator", but by moving the calculator at tremendous speed and making it parallel processing with a tremendous number of machines it is possible to answer quickly and accurately. Until now, the computer was "a computer that processes according to a program given to humans and gives an answer", but after thinking over many years, like an artificial intelligence that finally entered the practical stage, I have made a change so that I can do.

When you talk about this topic, keyword appearing as may always say is "Technical Singularity", or simply "SingularityIt is the word.Technical SingularityThis word to be translated is exactly "artificial intelligence exceeds human ability". It seems that artificial intelligence has already reached singularity in some fields, as artificial intelligence has broken the strongest player of the human race. Computers recognize things in the camera through the camera, listen to the human voice, return answers to the asked questions by voice, gather information by themselves and write natural sentences, like human reactions and It can be said that the situation in which computers actually take action is a rare thing anymore. In other words, we are living in the era when the technology we have used as one of the tools so far for the first time is about to overturn humans who are "users".

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Such a computer suddenly wore, the ability to "connect with others". In addition to human beings who can communicate with voice, gestures, and expressions, we respond to the actions of others by coexisting with other people, such as jellyfish that teach each other a place where foods are secreted by secreting a specific chemical substance It was an action that could only take a creature so far, but now the computer has been equipped with that ability. It is the best example that fighting fighters flying in the sky at a tremendous speed and autonomous driving cars cooperate with each other to prevent collision, so far the artificial intelligence that has mainly existed as a single body is the other By recognizing the existence and becoming able to make my own judgment in the relationship with the partner, it can even say that artificial intelligence now has "social nature".

It is no longer necessary to have a mechanism for collectively managing all computers, and if individual computers are present and society is formed by gathering individual computers, this is another "computer society There will be "collective action" of artificial intelligence will come to be born. Originally, animals including human beings also exist as individuals, the society is born by living in a group, and in that a concept of a new society has been born and cultivated, but artificial intelligence It may be said that it is at the stage of acquiring such social nature. And perhaps there is no need for human intervention. fact,AlphaGo new version of AlphaGo "AlphaGo Zero" started studying go from zero state at all without borrowing from human beings and became the world's strongest oneself.

That will result in a change that "intelligence (knowledge) will also exist in" the outside world ". McKinsey emphasizes that "This is a very important thing." From the 15 th century to the 16 th century letterpress printing was invented and became popular and until then the intelligence which had been concentrating on the church and so forth jumped out a lot outside the church. The fact that intelligence has existed in "the outside world" invites "explosion of knowledge", leading to the subsequent Renaissance, became the foundation of the present society.

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What we are going to greet is the era when intelligence exists not only in "inside humans" but also "outside". This change is much more important than before, the difference is that computers that will have the ability to exceed human beings will utilize their intelligence. Previously it was the movement of intelligence from human to human, but since it means that intelligence moves to artificial intelligence beyond humans in a sense through singularity, who has yet to measure its influence correctly I can not do it either. However, the possibility that artificial intelligence unrelated to the limit possessed by humans will create a new mechanism is fully conceivable. And this change can happen enough in the business world as well.

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Then, it may be that humanity will face "Technical unemploymentIt is a problem of. In the past, it has been regarded as a problem that human work decreases due to mechanization and evolution of production, but in the future where artificial intelligence spreads, it is predicted that artificial intelligence and robots will lose human work It is. But this is also that artificial intelligence and robots will make "production of wealth" human beings have been playing so far. In other words, while one of the important things in today's human society is "access to work" (getting to work), in the future where AI · robot produces wealth, it will be "to the product (wealth) Access "or"Distribution of wealthMcKinsey points out that it means that it becomes more important.

According to McKinsey, in "a society where distribution of wealth becomes important", there is a change in criteria for policy judgment that is different from the past. It is said that free-marketist thinking becomes difficult and that society will emphasize policy rather than economy. McKinsey does not anticipate McKinsey's proceeding from capitalist economy to socialism and communism, but as one of the problems of communism, "Sabo has the same salary as productivity is low" The point is that if it is to leave the production to the robot it may be cleared, and here also the possibility that a different society is born from conventional common sense can be felt.

In the near future that artificial intelligence and robots will penetrate society, human beings accept that the concept that is different from the concept of society to date is born, responding to the big change that mankind once experienced during the industrial revolution It may be necessary to go. In addition, those who can adapt to the change may become those who can live the next society better.

ByArs Electronica