As the world is making its mark in the development of Artificial Intelligence, people are also afraid that it may get self-aware at some point. A big number of technologists and businessmen also think that it may be possible that at some point the machine may start developing algorithms on its own and is thus capable of making decisions on behalf of others. We are already stuck in a web of Machines. We are not able to do our basic tasks of the day without machines and instead of thinking outside the box and engaging ourselves in some more physical based activities, we are going deeper in machine-based works and formulating more technologies that make people lazier.
Artificial intelligence is a branch of Computer Science carrying multiple aspects but the major goal is to create machines that can think like a human. Human intelligence and emotions are the features normally machines lack. It has been anticipated that inculcating these features in gears will not only revolutionized the world but will create a paradigm shift in human life making it easier.
Surely, AI and machines are very much important and useful for big organizations but are it that much useful for people? Have people required these leisure machines which are making them more slothy and negligent every day?
Talking about games, series or movies nowadays; the makers are trying to tell us how AI can be bad for the world and also how people can be bad towards AI. Stories like Westworld, Detroit Become Human and 2001: A Space Odyssey tells us different possibilities of the nature of AI. It's going to take AI mere seconds to destroy us or maybe we can be the ones destroying them (ethically).
Detroit: Become human tells us about the world where robots are used as servants, Drivers, Housekeepers, etc. Each robot serves a purpose and is designed for it only. But when uncertainties occur the robots start thinking whether they should follow commands and that leads them to differentiate between wrong or right. A rebellion is thus formed which depends upon the player will either result in a democratic or despotic rule. AI gets self-aware in the end and they either get new laws for them or they end up killing people.
In Westworld; it is shown that Some Powerful Magnates create a park, somewhat an unholy Sanctuary where there are no rules or rights or any laws. The robots (AI, Machines) are the hosts whereas the people are the guests and the guests are free to do whatever they want. The guests then treat the hosts by killing them, torturing them, intimated with and all the possible crimes one can think of. The memory of the hosts gets wiped every day, but a simple malfunction allows them to live each atrocity that ever happened to them. The result of all those atrocities, anguish, pain and suffering then calls for revenge against the hosts and an AI rebellion is started lead by a Strong Bolshevik.
In a 1968, Stanley Kubrick movie (2001: A Space Odyssey) it is seen that the AI responsible for astronauts to carry into distant worlds gets aware by tapping into ship's communications and when it's ordered to shut down, it kicks out the astronauts to save itself. Directly disobeying an order stating: "Sorry, I can't do that."
In another classic movie series: The Terminator; it is shown that how robots are going to control the future. How they get self-aware depending upon the circumstances they are put up to. They get so smart that they enhance their capabilities and start producing things for themselves and how they want to rule everything they set their eyes on. A lot of references like this are shown in series like Rick and Morty and Firefly etc.
Taking these many things into account, a lot of technology giants are also telling the world, again and again, to be careful regarding these AI technologies. Because no one knows when things might slip out of hand. Thus, it should be dealt with carefully.
Concluding different scenarios discussed above, and pre recognized by different media industries, it is certain that the growth of AI is both good and bad but one should not dwell too much on the technology. Depending on the technology that much will make people lazy and hard to work (as shown in movie Wall-E). It is also evident that how lazy people get only by watching web networks like Netflix and Amazon Prime, Hulu etc.
We always think that everything is in our control, but is it?
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