Artificial Intelligence: Good?

Victoria Rivero, J1 Staff

Artificial intelligence (AI) influences computers and machines to imitate the intelligence, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities of the human mind.  Artificial intelligence is used in many things, for instance: Alexa, Snapchat, Tesla, Google, ect. It could reduce errors that humans might miss, is unbiased to any question or decision, and it helps us make more accurate predictions. AI uses the data collected and a certain set of algorithms to display its information to us.

Although artificial intelligence does not have emotions, empathy, or creativity, it can provide assistance to any advice we need for our own emotions and if it had the ability to be creative and have emotions it would be disturbing to know a robot or computer has emotions. For those with disabilities artificial intelligence can improve the quality of their life by providing them with technology assistance.

Many say that artificial intelligence can make inventions and we should not trust it, however AI uses the data and a set of algorithms to create these inventions also, if it were to create or invent something it would be tested by authorities to see if it is secure for our own safety. 

Some may say artificial intelligence can make humans lazy and unproductive and make no improvement for us intellectually; however, it can offer us any information we are looking for that we can interpret, understand, and learn from it. Yes, artificial intelligence could possibly be taking away employment opportunities, but one can argue that AI does not have the ability to complete physical tasks, or communicate with people as a team.

Artificial intelligence can not be a psychologist, a doctor, a teacher, ect. It also can not have the ability to complete hands-on or physical jobs, for instance: electricians, trainers, construction, plumbing, ect. Those jobs require human creativity, empathy, judgment, firsthand assistance and have to do with communication, nevertheless artificial intelligence would not be able to take the employment of software engineers, because that is what it came from.

Artificial intelligence can complete many tasks and can be a concern to many people for what it will become in the future, however we will not be affected by this because there are so many things that we can execute that artificial intelligence can not.