Age of AI

         The video "In the age of AI" by Frontline talked about the implications of having artificial intelligence. For me, it was quite terrifying to see what AI could bring upon us, but I saw some good in AI as well. One point that the video made was this AI program created by Google called AlphaGo. This AI program plays the Korean board game Go and learns how to play it while learning from its mistakes. They set up a game of Go with one of the best Go human players. After a few rounds, the AI ended up winning. Through learning from its own mistakes, it was able to calculate many steps ahead of the human player.

While I was watching the video, I realized a list of pros and cons of AI. Some pros include above all security. China uses Face ID to use almost everything and all of the video cameras keep us safe because everyone is being monitored. However, this comes with the loss of privacy and freedom. Another pro is that it allows the assembly of cars to be a lot more efficient, but once again this can also be a con as humans are no longer necessary to assemble the cars. This isn’t just the workers that make the cars but also the ones that drive them. One company in the video is using AI to tractor-trailers that are autonomous vehicles to transport goods across the country. 

I am a little worried as to what is going to happen in the next few decades. How far is AI going to be and how much are we going to rely on it? I don’t know if eventually a smart enough AI is going to try and kill us all like in the movie Terminator, but looking at the Go game we can already tell that AI is smarter than us.