Editor’s note: Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, said: Schmidt detailed his views on ARTIFICIAL intelligence in a fortune co-authored article with Sebastian Thrun, president and chairman of Udacity.
The positive aspects of AI are definitely much more negative, so let’s keep developing ai technology.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is certainly the most talked about topic in tech circles right now, but it often seems to be in stealth mode in our daily lives.
There are a number of industries where companies have successfully applied AI in a wide range of areas, such as credit card fraud detection, speech recognition, web search rankings, automated customer service, legal exploration, photo search, translation, and even traditional agriculture. The ancient and complex game of Go has long been considered beyond the reach of computers, but just a few weeks ago, Google’s artificial intelligence program Alphago beat human go champion Lee Se-dol. In fact, Alphago learned millions of go games to achieve this victory. Stanford’s artificial intelligence lab and IBMWatson studied millions of patient medical records to diagnose cancer types even more accurately than human doctors. Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly positive role.
When we introduced ARTIFICIAL intelligence into self-driving cars, many experts agreed that it was unsafe to put computers behind the wheel. But Google’s self-driving car development team is very forward-looking, and they have a different view of the application of ARTIFICIAL intelligence in self-driving cars. Most of us learn from our own mistakes when driving cars, but very few of us learn from the mistakes of others. One problem is that people make the same mistakes over and over again, and as a result, many people die in traffic accidents every year around the world.
Ai will take a different “evolutionary” approach to this problem. When one self-driving car makes a mistake, all self-driving cars can learn from that mistake. In fact, newly produced self-driving cars are born with all the skills of previous generations. So in general, these cars learn faster than humans. In this case, self-driving cars equipped with ARTIFICIAL intelligence technology will be on the road with human drivers for a short period of time, and they will learn from each other’s mistakes.
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have led to rapid development and public debate. Some fear AI and call for urgent action to avoid a hypothetical dystopia.
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But Google is optimistic about AI. The history of technology shows that every new technology comes with a lot of skepticism and fear, but in the end, it improves people’s lives. For example, when The Kodak camera came along, people thought it would destroy art; When electricity came along some people thought it was too dangerous. But once these technologies are in the hands of millions of people and open, growing and collaborating, all those fears will vanish. Just as the agricultural machinery revolution has freed up our hands, we no longer need to use our hands to pick crops in the fields. The same is true of the artificial intelligence revolution, which frees us human beings from trivial, repetitive and mindless work. Ai can do things we don’t want to do like driving on busy roads.
We believe that artificial intelligence can not only free us from many negative tasks, but also improve human motivation. For example, when playing alphago, master Lee Se-dol gained a deeper understanding of the game and greatly improved his game. In the future, each of us can use AI to improve what we do every day, as Lee did.
Imagine a world where smart apps and devices will help us identify everyone we meet, recall every word we ever said, and experience every moment we missed. In the future, we’ll be able to understand languages around the world (Google Translate is already working on this feature), and we’ll be able to use ai to better leverage other people’s experiences and deliver more knowledge to our kids.
Are we worried about the end of the world with ARTIFICIAL intelligence? In our view, this issue requires careful consideration. Today’s AI can only perform small, repetitive tasks, and we need to provide enough data and examples to train them. And it’s safe to say that no researcher or technologist wants those dystopian scenes from Hollywood movies in the real world. But the right way to face your fear is not to face it, to work hard, to solve the problem, to eliminate the tools. Google and many other companies are doing a lot of serious research on AI security, such as how to ensure that ai systems can be disrupted at any time, and how to make them robust enough to withstand powerful cyberattacks.
Instead of being trapped in fear, we need to work hard to find solutions to eliminate fear. In the case of self-driving cars, there are a lot of lessons we can learn to improve collaboration. For example, Google has open-source its AI learning system TensorFlow and now all the code is open. It allows AI researchers around the world to collaborate more easily, sharing not just research papers but actual code. In this way, we can see what the computer is learning, what data it is using, and finally, use our brightest minds to control and optimize artificial intelligence.
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In fact, we all know that Silicon Valley is not the only place where ARTIFICIAL intelligence technology can develop. Artificial intelligence requires the efforts of the whole world, tapping the potential of the whole world. We believe that when ARTIFICIAL intelligence is built by people of all races and types, it can better serve everyone. Google recently set up a machine learning working group in Zurich and is building similar groups around the world.
For us at Google, it’s better to get down to work than to get excited about the endless possibilities of AI, even though AI has already provided many benefits to humanity today. We can’t wait for ARTIFICIAL intelligence to liberate humans from mindless, menial jobs so that we can devote ourselves to truly creative work.