THE REAL THREATS OF AI (PART-I) Andrew Ng, a machine learning educator and researcher said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new electricity. Like the dot com stock exchange crash of 2000, there probably will be an AI stock exchange crash in the near future as companies are slapping the “AI” tag to their product lines, we can say companies are “AI” ing their way out of products. Samsung in its 30 minutes CES-2021 keynote, used the term AI, Machine learning and deep learning at least 25 times. Nevertheless, the development of these technologies is growing exponentially, so we need to be abreast of this field and be aware of the threats it possesses. Before the AI revolution, the computers were explicitly told what to do by software programs. Thus computers were limited in their functionality. But AI helped computers to “think” by themselves. Here we feed in real-world data to the system along with target labels. Then we let the model establish a relation between the input d...
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THE REAL THREATS OF AI ( PART - II) Glad you are with me and I hope that you went through the first part. In the first part, we introduced AI naively and went through some common fears of AI and why they might be far-fetched. So in this part, we will talk about the real threats of AI and its consequences. Let’s dive in. CONSOLIDATION OF AI DEVELOPMENT: Your AI is as good as the data it is trained on. Data collection, refinement, pre-processing and cleaning takes the major portion of AI projects timeline. Consumer-facing AI’s need data from a large pool of the population and needs to be diversified which would make our algorithm generalizable. So who has access to such a large user base? Certainly, the big tech. People’s social and business life depends on these applications which are free to get into. I will reiterate the famous line “ If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product ”. Platforms make it easy for you to get into their applications and due to intense...