Blog 9: Age of AI

 The Age of Artificial Intelligence 

While we don't see Artificial Intelligence they know our next move whether we know it or not. Artificial Intelligence also known as AI is a machine coming up with answers and responses to any question a person has acting like the computer is human. AI uses data and algorithms to come up with a problem-solving response. In the video shown in class, it even commented that even though you are searching up something you have no idea that Google or search engines are also searching about us as well. How scary!

Pros of AI:

There are many pros of Artificial Intelligence, these include safety, efficiency, and consistency. For safety, it makes sure that it is harder for hackers to get into different accounts and the AI systems can be used in hazardous environments to detect and prevent horrible things that can happen. For efficiency, AI is able to come up with answers within seconds of asking it something. It makes it easier, faster and comes up with intelligent answers that most humans would not even think of. Finally, since AI is a computer it leads to better quality answers with mostly no mistakes. If there is a mistake you can ask them to repeat the answer in a different way and it will come up with another intelligent answer. 

Cons of AI:

As there are many pros of AI there are also cons. AI has caused job loss and does not have the same qualities as talking to a human. AI has caused many people to lose their job or not have many jobs go on the market because it is free and has a great response within seconds. Many companies don't find the need to find people if they could just have a computer do the job for them. It also causes many people to not get hired because the older generation doesn’t know how to use it and companies want people who are able to interact with it. Another con AI has it that it lacks empathy since it is a computer and has no emotional connections between the person asking for help and itself. This can cause people to much rather ask another person a question than a computer because it will have an answer from the heart. 

Privacy:

The main concern with AI is the privacy aspect. There is NONE! Computers and phones are collecting data at all times whether it be what songs you like, what hobbies you are interested in, etc. Now that AI is such a big thing in today's world it will never go away. While it has many benefits it is rather concerning.