Artificial intelligence: Merits and demerits

AI has emerged as one technology of particular importance because of its role as an accelerator, its versatility, and its wide applicability.

Artificial intelligence is that activity devoted to making machines intelligent or to make them think like humans. AI has emerged as one technology of particular importance because of its role as an accelerator, its versatility, and its wide applicability.

However, AI can also be used for a host of undesirable purposes — generating misinformation, criminal activity, and encroaching upon personal privacy or inducing technological unemployment.

Therefore, as the global community seeks to leverage the promises of AI, they should also confront similar challenges when it comes to the development and deployment of AI and develop a human-centric approach to AI.

Merits of AI

• • AI drives down the time taken to perform a task. It enables multi-tasking and eases the workload for existing resources.
  • AI enables the execution of hitherto complex tasks without significant cost outlays.
  • AI operates 24×7 without interruption or breaks and has no downtime
  • AI augments the capabilities of differently abled individuals
  • AI has mass market potential, it can be deployed across industries.
  • AI facilitates decision-making by making the process faster and smarter.

Demerits of AI

Inequalities : It shouldn’t be forgotten that AI systems are created by humans, who can be biased and judgemental. Thus, AI can promote prejudices and inequalities, if initial training of the AI algorithms are biased.

Lack of Privacy: AI systems learn by analyzing huge volumes of data and they keep adapting through continuous modelling of interaction data and user-feedback. Thus, with the increasing use of AI, the right to privacy can be under threat due to unauthorized access to one’s activity data.

Disproportionate Power and Control: Technology giants are investing heavily in regard to artificial intelligence, both at the scientific/engineering and also at the commercial and product development level.

Technological Unemployment: AI companies are building intelligent machines that perform tasks typically carried out by low-income workers. For example self-service kiosks to replace cashiers, fruit-picking robots to replace field workers, etc.

Solution

Right Steps Taken: AI technological revolution brings great opportunities for prosperity and growth — but it has to be ensured that the technology will be applied and used in the right direction.

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