Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Intelligence (Humans Vs Machines)

I suppose A.I. is the one of the best known acronym among children. Since my childhood days this word has been fanaticized me and inspired to look for more. What would the world be look like without intelligent machines? What would happen if humans become completely dependent on machines? and the most important question which inspired many sci-fi movies and made billions of $ and still counting is "What would happen if machine surpassed humans in intelligence.

Let's talk about intelligence first. As per me intelligence derived from majorly its three main constituents. first is more accurate past experience information database which provide you inputs to make a decision. Second is go through that database quickly to get related information which is required to make a decision, we call it response time and the third is ability to process the related information in current context to reach at correct decision.

If you even have some elementary knowledge of our modern age systems humans can't beat machines in first point. Machines can store information related to entire human race without major hassle. So now comes the second part where humans are giving some fight to them but with each passing day with the help of faster processing units and better algorithms machine are getting very effective in this area. Due to these developments even in today's world there are very few brains which can take on machines in this context.

Third point was making decisions. Now this part is where A.I. mainly comes into picture. How effectively you can fit information into current context to make a decision is key to human race which put them at advantage. With the inventions of nanobots, machines which can find sockets to recharge themselves and also robots which can kill someone anonymously machines are gaining grounds in this area very rapidly. With the inventions of viruses which can not be destroyed and nonobots which can replicates themselves, human race is at stake. So is this the time when fictitious concept of "Rise of machines " coming true?

If your answer is yes then start preparing yourself.