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He makes it sound like we're virtually certain to all be killed by a superintelligent AI in the not-too-distant future. Here, I'll explain why I'm not freaking out as much as Eliezer Yudkowsky. AI researchers have a history of exaggerated predictions. Science fiction stories were similarly off. The highly intelligent HAL 9000 computer imagined by Arthur C. Clarke was supposed to exist in 2001.

As an avid reader, you will realize I am not a big proponent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). First, not just because, these days, every line of code is referred to as AI. Or a machine with a few sensors is suddenly called a robot, magically suggesting superior qualities of adaptability. The second major gripe I have with AI is how artificial the definition of intelligence is in AI. For intelligence is knowing what to do in unprecedented scenarios no AI system provides today.

This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It also contains spoilers for the film Don't Look Up. Streaming just in time for Christmas, Adam McKay's decidedly uncheery Netflix comedy, Don't Look Up, finds Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio playing a pair of intrepid astronomers as they try (and mostly fail) to warn the world about a planet-killing comet that's hurtling toward Earth. From the beginning, the scientists' efforts are marked by futility, encapsulated in an early scene in which Kate Dibiasky (Lawrence) and Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) are brought to the White House to debrief President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) on the impending extinction-level event. Predictably, the meeting goes disastrously.

This article contains spoilers for the film Don't Look Up. Streaming just in time for Christmas, Adam McKay's decidedly uncheery Netflix comedy, Don't Look Up, finds Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio playing a pair of intrepid astronomers as they try (and mostly fail) to warn the world about a planet-killing comet that's hurtling toward Earth. From the beginning, the scientists' efforts are marked by futility, encapsulated in an early scene in which Kate Dibiasky (Lawrence) and Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) are brought to the White House to debrief President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) on the impending extinction-level event. Predictably, the meeting goes disastrously. The president's son and chief of staff (played by Jonah Hill) lounges on the couch, nurses a bad case of coke sniffles, and proclaims to be "so bored" by all the world-ending comet talk.

New media can be defined as a highly interactive digital technology which allows people to interact anywhere anytime. This has evolved as a non-tangible channel for communication on the preset of growth in Information Technology. The ability to transform content to a digitized format allowed new-age media to take shape within the internet. Accessibility through hand-held devices like mobile platforms, personal computers, digital devices, and virtual computing machines has aided the growth of new-age media. The medium of new media is not just restricted to social networking platforms, blogs, online newspapers, digital games and virtual reality, but any aspect of communication that can be communicated real-time, processed, stored and delivered in formats of data instantaneously.

RICHARD DAWKINS: When we come to artificial intelligence and the possibility of their becoming conscious, we reach a profound philosophical difficulty. I am a philosophical naturalist; I'm committed to the view that there is nothing in our brains that violates the laws of physics, there's nothing that could not, in principle, be reproduced in technology. It hasn't been done yet; we're probably quite a long way away from it, but I see no reason why in the future we shouldn't reach the point where a human-made robot is capable of consciousness and of feeling pain. JOANNA BRYSON: So, one of the things that we did last year, which was pretty cool, the headlines, because we were replicating some psychology stuff about implicit bias--actually, the best one is something like'Scientists show that AI is sexist and racist and it's our fault,' which, that's pretty accurate because it really is about picking things up from our society. Anyway, the point was, so here is an AI system that is so humanlike that it's picked up our prejudices and whatever and it's just vectors.

So, let's start from the basics -- what is Artificial Intelligence? Simply put, AI is the intelligence manifested by machines, rather than humans. Machines that imitate cognitive human functions like learning and problem-solving. Although in one form or another, AI was with us for centuries, one of the most noteworthy discoveries was made by British computer pioneer and AI theorist Alan Turing. Even though in 1950 the term'Artificial Intelligence' hasn't existed yet, he already attempted to answer the question -- Looking for answers, he invented an examination (which is commonly known as the Turing Test) to determine whether a machine is capable of reasoning.

Humankind's first glimpse of an awesome new kind of intelligence occurred on December 2018, when researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google's parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from what one day may be recognized as a herald of next great epoch of human evolution –the "Lucy", Australopithecus afarensis, the famous early ancestor of modern humans, of the emerging "Cyborg Epoch" of hyperintelligence. A year earlier, on Dec. 5, 2017, the New York Times reported, the team had stunned the chess world with its announcement of AlphaZero, a machine-learning algorithm that had "mastered not only chess but shogi, or Japanese chess, and Go. The algorithm started with no knowledge of the games beyond their basic rules. It then played against itself millions of times and learned from its mistakes. In a matter of hours, the algorithm became the best player, human or computer, the world has ever seen."

Narrow AI is where we have been. General AI is where we are going. Narrow AI refers to AI which is able to handle just one particular task. A spam filtering tool, or a recommended playlist from Spotify, or even a self-driving car -- all of which are sophisticated uses of technology -- can only be defined via the term'narrow AI'. Even Watson, IBM's media-friendly supercomputer which can beat human experts at Jeopardy!