{"id":1735,"date":"2020-12-11T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1331391"},"modified":"2020-12-11T20:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:00:45","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-ai-the-difference-between-human-and-machine-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"A beginner\u2019s guide to AI: The difference between human and machine intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome to Neural\u2019s beginner\u2019s guide to AI. This multi-part feature should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works. The guide contains articles on (in order published) neural networks<\/a>, <\/span>computer vision<\/a>, <\/span>natural language processing<\/a>, <\/span>algorithms<\/a>, artificial general intelligence<\/a>, and the difference between video game AI and real AI<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

As legend has it, a reporter once asked Mahatma Ghandi what he thought of Western Civilization. His response was \u201cI think it would be a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same sentiment could be applied to artificial intelligence if you compare it directly to human intelligence. That is, the most advanced AI systems in the world (DeepMind\u2019s, GPT-3, etc.) pale in comparison to a human infant\u2019s intellect<\/a>: artificial intelligence would<\/i> be a good idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfully for everyone in the industry, the rubrics we use to measure machine intelligence are entirely different than the ones we apply to ourselves. It can be difficult to suss out what \u201cAI\u201d or even just \u201cintelligence\u201d means from one source of information to the next. <\/span><\/p>\n

But the reality isn\u2019t all that complex. Humans experience reality through a theater of the mind<\/a>. We inherently define our existence by the time, place, and sensations we observe. That\u2019s a fancy way of saying we have imaginations. <\/span><\/p>\n

We experience time<\/em> as a UI for memory, place<\/em><\/span> is defined by where we think we are in relation to things outside our observation (that we\u2019re assuming still exist), and sensation<\/em> is just one of the many languages our brains speak. Our experience of reality, our basis for intelligence, is like a movie that lasts as long as we live.<\/p>\n

Computers experience intelligence as an exponentially unfolding series of ones and zeros. We can reverse engineer any current AI system (because we\u2019re the original engineers of all AI systems) and we ultimately drill down to ones and zeros. (Quantum algorithms not withstanding). <\/span><\/p>\n

And, though we still haven\u2019t sorted out all of the human brain\u2019s mysteries, it\u2019s safe to say we\u2019re not binary thinkers.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the simple explanation. But it doesn\u2019t clear up much when it comes to what AI can and can\u2019t do. Because, binary or not, it doesn\u2019t seem too far-fetched to imagine humankind could be one or two eurekas away from inventing a sentient machine that <\/span>is<\/i> capable of imagining things and forming its own theater of the mind. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, to be clear: no current AI system we\u2019re aware of has the ability to think or imagine. This theoretical idea for an artificial stream of consciousness<\/a> is the closest thing we can find. <\/span><\/p>\n

AI can\u2019t do much right now. But what it can do, it does extremely well. Deep learning \u2013 computer vision, natural language processing, and similar disciplines \u2013 excels at mundane tasks that would take humans too long to do. <\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no way you or I could search through 75 million images to figure out which ones looked like cats. Despite the fact we\u2019d perform the task with far more accuracy than any algorithm, we wouldn\u2019t live long enough to finish the job. An AI might do it in seconds. <\/span><\/p>\n

So when you hear something like \u201cAI can diagnose cancer with 97% accuracy,\u201d the reality is this: they taught an AI to look at the pixels in a photo and tell us where Waldo is. And \u201cWaldo\u201d is just whatever it is that oncologists look for in images when they\u2019re searching for signs of cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

But deep learning<\/a> isn\u2019t the only form of AI there is. Thousands of researchers are developing new classes of algorithms, advanced neural networks, and hybrid learning technologies designed to better imitate the human brain.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime human intelligence and machine intelligence simply aren\u2019t comparable. <\/span> However, in the future, technologies such as quantum AI<\/a>, hybrid approaches<\/a> involving symbolic AI, or new class calculus<\/a> could go a long way towards spanning that gap. <\/span><\/p>\n

Published December 11, 2020 \u2014 20:00 UTC <\/p>\n

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