Is AI the future?

 AI has been changing our lives for decades, but never has AI felt ubiquitous like now. AI can make all our dreams come true, or destroy society and society as we know it.

It is already known that human jobs are constantly eaten away by software, specifically AI algorithms which can analyze huge amounts of data and control better process management decisions with more efficient outcomes.

"The Bank of England" estimates that 48% of human workers will eventually be replaced by robotics and software automation, and "ArkInvest" predicts that 76 million U.S. jobs will disappear in the next two decades — almost 10 times the number of jobs created during the Obama years. And it’s more than low-skilled factory workers losing their seats to software intelligent robots. Even "Wall Street" is being disrupted: cloud-based software technologies, such as "Blockchain", are displacing sales/trading and settlements professionals and increasing price discovery and transparency on the sell-side of the Street, while data analytics is helping quantitative trading eliminate the fundamental misperception of securities, formerly the mission and exclusive domain of active managers.

• Robots will keep us safer, especially from disasters
• We all will become cyborgs.
• AI will turn us into superhumans.
• Very smart computers may solve our problems, even change the climate.
• Improvement in medical care.
• Super intelligent computers may also make internet access available to people who don’t have it now.

If computers can converse in natural language and understand what people are asking and give sensible answers it might have a big impact on all of these people that currently don't benefit from the kind of technology that we do.

• AI could give us more time to be creative and to think broadly because it can relieve us from stressful jobs.
• The sad part is, robots will take away most of our jobs.

Written by Shivani Reddy

Source: 18 artificial intelligence researchers reveal the profound changes coming to our lives