Imagine living in a futuristic world full of intelligent robots. One’s robot could cook for them, drive for them, help defeat video game rivals, and much more. These AI would be based off powerful machine learning software and many other concepts. Although this may seem like a paradise, one first has to consider the possible consequences of machine learning before taking action. Machine Learning is dangerous because it can outsmart humans and has its own mind.
The TedTalk How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation spoken by Sinan Aral mentions the significance of machine learning when spreading information. A very powerful aspect of machine learning is GAN, or a general adversarial network. A GAN is made up of two parts, a discriminator and a generator. The generator’s job is to generate false information. The discriminator decides if the information is true or false. If the discriminator thinks its false, the generator will generate more realistic fake news. The machine slowly improves itself in this endless loop. The speaker explained how these machines were used to trick many people. When false news seems so real, not even a machine can differentiate it from the truth, humans stand no chance. A machine is far smarter than a human. In 1997, the chess machine DeepBlue even defeated former chess world champion, Gary Kasparov. Today, technology is far more advanced than 1997, and machine learning is on the rise. Many machine learning robots today defeated world champions of different mind games over and over again. With this powerful ability, machine learning will learn to manipulate and control humans, which could lead to the extinction of mankind.
Not only are machine learning robots extremely smart, but they also have their own mind. AWS DeepRacer is a recent invention of the intelligent toy car built from machine learning. This robot learns to follow a track with immense accuracy and also travels at considerable speeds. Additionally, the car’s ability to quicky race on a track improves due to the GAN system. In a video introducing the robot and an AWS DeepRacer racing competition, many of the developers explained how the robot has its own “mind”, so it might not behave the way it is instructed to do so on competition day. At first, this seems as if the power of machine learning has been downgraded, but the exact opposite happens. Since the machine has its own mind, it can ignore the human influence and decide to perform its own actions suitable for itself. When this ability is combined with its intelligence, it creates an independent society of beings far more intelligent than humans. These independent robots have their own thoughts, which can possibly cause all machine learning to unite and attempt to rid the Earth of humanity. All of this seems to fake to be true, but it could become reality one day.
Machine learning is a powerful intelligent creation of humanity. Their high intelligence allows them to outsmart humans and manipulate mankind. These robots also have their own independent minds with their own thoughts, which allows them to act as they wish to. Machine learning can be disastrous when used incorrectly.