Scope of Artificial Intelligence

In this chapter, the author has analysed the potential of constituent technologies involved in AI and how it helps make AI valuable and successful. This chapter has explained why the peculiarities of artificial intelligence, potential ethical and legal conundrums, and solutions to these problems are discussed. This raises three major concerns: responsibility, or who is responsible if AI causes harm; rights, or the debatable moral and practical justifications for bestowing legal identity upon AI; and the ethics surrounding AI decision-making. AI is the technology used to make machines work like real human beings. The potentials of AI are many—like, it reduces errors and increases the chances of achieving accuracy, due diligence, and prediction technology. So, in the coming ten years, technologies in narrow fields such as speech recognition will continue to improve and reach the human level. In 10 years, AI will be able to communicate better with a human in unstructured English using text or voice, navigate(not perfect) in an unprepared environment, and have some rudimentary common-sense—and domain-specific intelligence. However, the field of artificial consciousness remains in its infancy, so the early years of the twenty-first century should see dramatic strides forward in this area, however. In October 2017, Saudi Arabia conceded ‘citizenship’ to a humanoid robot named Sophia. Only days after the Saudi declaration, Tokyo’s Shibuya locale reports that an AI framework had been allowed ‘residency’.