The Artificial intelligence It is part of the most acute concerns of humanity today, a field in full development. It consists in a machine being able to imitate human learning, reasoning, perception, problem solving, and language use.
That is, the computer is programmed to “think”, to develop its own ways of solving problems.
However, for a machine to develop these types of solutions, it must be programmed for machine learning and deep learning.
Explain Alina Bradford in an article for Reader’s Digest that with machine learning and deep learning, a computer can take what it has learned and build on it with little or no human intervention.
What is the difference between these two types of learning?
machine learning allows a computer to adapt to new situations without human intervention. Its main example is when Siri remembers the user’s music preference, using it to suggest new music.
deep learning it is a subset of automatic, inspired by the structure of the human brain: it is based on the use of data that it already knows. One example is when a computer helps a worker decipher and understand handwriting from a variety of writing patterns, comparing them to data on what the letters should look like.
Artificial Intelligence, can it be smarter than a human being?
From there we go to our question, can an Artificial Intelligence be more intelligent than a human?
Nope.
It’s not even up to par.
according to the doctor Lance Eliot, expert in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, current AI cannot in any way “think” on par with human thought.
“When you interact with Alexa or Siri,” says Eliot, “conversational capabilities may seem similar to human capabilities, but the reality is that it is computational and lacks human cognition.”
Professor Eliot points out that the current stage of AI has made extensive use of machine learning and deep learning, that take advantage of computational pattern matching.
“This has led to AI systems that have the appearance (we stress this) of human-like inclinations. Meanwhile, there is no AI today that has a semblance of common sense and also does not have the cognitive awe of robust human thought.”
Artificial Intelligence also cannot develop feelings
Just as there is no Artificial Intelligence more intelligent than the human (or, simply, there is no “intelligent” AI), they are also unable to develop feelings.
A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, recently became famous for saying that the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), which learns from language databases and is powered by machine learning, can express feelings.
This was not only denied by Google, but also by various experts from other companies and institutions.
“It’s ridiculous,” said Yejin Choi, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, in conversation with Geekwire. “Some users may have different feelings about what is inside a computer program. But I don’t agree that digital beings can actually be sentient.”
“We program bots to appear sentient. But it is not, by itself, to demonstrate this kind of ability in the way that human babies grow to demonstrate it. These are programmed and designed digital creations.”