Scientists have warned that humanity risks losing control of artificial intelligence if it continues to evolve.
AI programmes have become more common, with their use occurring in so many areas that they are beginning to pose a stark threat to many about losing their jobs.
But as this technology continues to evolve, an international group of researchers has warned that there is an increased risk of independent software. Experts have recently made significant progress with a revolutionary artificial intelligence system that never ceases to learn.
In a study published in the Journal of Arititial Intelligence Research Portal, author Manuel Sebrian said: "The super-intelligent machine that controls the world looks like science fiction. But there are already machines that carry out certain tasks independently without programmers fully understanding how they have learned them, a situation that can at some point become uncontrollable and dangerous to humanity."
According to the study, scientists have tried two ways to control AI software, isolate it from the Internet and program it using an algorithm that prevents it from being harmed.
The first method stopped the technique from performing its core functions, but it is worrying that there is no algorithm that can ensure harm prevention.
"If this happens (a super-intelligent system harming humans), we don't know whether the containment algorithm will continue to analyze the threat, or whether it will stop containing harmful Artificial Intelligence. In fact, this makes the containment algorithm unusable." According to entrepreneur, researcher and director of the Center for Humans and Machinery at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Iyad Rhoan: "If we analyze the problem into basic rules of theoretical computing, it turns out that the algorithm that instructed Artificial Intelligence not to destroy the world could inadvertently stop its operations."
This comes at a time when AI researchers working on facial recognition systems claim that their devices can now predict someone's sexual preference from just measuring their face.
The research, published this week in the Nature Journal Scientific Reports, was conducted by Michel Kosinski of Stanford University.
Source: Daily Star
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