Artificial intelligence: an “infinite and unlimited” future

Chosen as word of the year by the Urgent Spanish Foundation (FundéuRAE), the artificial intelligence It is a relatively young discipline in the field of science because the expression began to be used just seventy years ago, but its future can be infinite and unlimited because many of the most innovative developments go through this technology.

A future in which many of the unknowns and fears that this technology, already used in numerous applications and services that millions of people use on a daily and not always conscious way, still arouses, will have to be cleared up.

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Under the umbrella of a scientific discipline that deals with creating computer programs that execute operations comparable to those carried out by the human mind -as defined by the RAE- artificial intelligence has pursued an objective for several decades: that machines are capable of replicating cognitive processes and learning that until now was considered exclusive to the human mind.

Systems based on artificial intelligence have already been imposed on world chess or poker champions; they recognize facial features or voice, translate languages ​​simultaneously, drive autonomously, or even perfect a medical diagnosis and what is the best treatment.

In an ordinary way, artificial intelligence has been incorporated into the daily life of millions of people (navigation, geolocation, computing, virtual assistants, etc.), and developers, scientists, technologists and politicians point out that it will be one of the best allies to face some of the main challenges facing humanity.

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And it is there where doubts arise, where the debate about the ethics of this technology breaks out, about the risks that the different gaps (geographical, age or gender) will increase, that the machines can become completely autonomous and to disobey or fail to fulfill the functions for which they were designed, and on the importance of these technologies not being outside of ethical values ​​and legality.

The first time that artificial intelligence was discussed was in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference (United States) and it was done by John McCarthy, a computer pioneer who ended up receiving the Turing Award, and since then the advances and achievements of this technology have happened.

He has already been able to paint as Rembrandt would have after learning to recognize his painting patterns, to write poetry, to make sophisticated musical compositions, and he is behind many of the technological developments that have tried to break through in recent years, including they the metaverse, the blockchain or chain of blocks, virtual reality or data mining.

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And it supports, for example, one of the technologies that has become fashionable in recent months: ChatGPT developed by the American company OpenAI, a system that is currently free and capable of explaining a quantum computing exercise in a simple way, of talking and empathize with the user, to make summaries or to write texts with total coherence and grammatical correctness.

But at the moment the AI ​​is not infallible; There have also been cases of “artificial stupidity”, and while countries and companies bet and invest in this technology, researchers and think tanks emphasize the limits it must have, the importance of machines always being at the service of people and not the other way around, and on the need to tackle biases (gender, race or class) and prevent the gaps from widening.

Source: Elcomercio

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