Abstract
My Definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) 1. Generally speaking, AI is perceived as intelligent technologies, from computers to robots that mimic human’s intelligence and five senses for learning, analytical reasoning, decision making, real-life problem solving and companionship. 2. I would assert that the prospects and future of AI lies in the hand of robotics, naturally, a moving AI agent acts as an extension of mankind (not as a replacement); like a pair of angel’s wings to a human, or Doraemon’s pocket attached to a human.
How can the general public best be prepared for more widespread use of artificial intelligence? There are clear disparities between those who accept or worship the ‘wonder of AI’ and those who are against it, such as “How AI is used to transform Google Translate”[5],“Robotics Public Private Partnership in Horizon 2020”[6],“EU spends millions building robot that makes pizza”[7]; versus “AI: we are like children playing with a bomb”[8] and “AI could lead into third world war”[9]. Both camps attract the general public to perceive AI differently with a mixed feeling: in love and war. The complexity arises from the complex nature of AI. At an instrumental level the idea of AI is intuitively simple, to put human’s brains and senses into machines. However, its social-economical and psychological implications are far more complex. The AI technological advances are pervasive but education reform is falling behind. In the last two centuries, both technology and education raced forward in the UK and US, generating rising living quality and massive economic expansion, however, ‘technology sprinted ahead of limping education in the last 30 years, leading to the recent upsurge in inequality’[10]. There is an urge to raise the stagnation in the level of AI education across the UK. The key question is that how do we prepare the UK general public for the impact of AI, the disparities and the future AI leaders from the UK to shape the directions not into the devil’s wings but the angel’s?
How can the general public best be prepared for more widespread use of artificial intelligence? There are clear disparities between those who accept or worship the ‘wonder of AI’ and those who are against it, such as “How AI is used to transform Google Translate”[5],“Robotics Public Private Partnership in Horizon 2020”[6],“EU spends millions building robot that makes pizza”[7]; versus “AI: we are like children playing with a bomb”[8] and “AI could lead into third world war”[9]. Both camps attract the general public to perceive AI differently with a mixed feeling: in love and war. The complexity arises from the complex nature of AI. At an instrumental level the idea of AI is intuitively simple, to put human’s brains and senses into machines. However, its social-economical and psychological implications are far more complex. The AI technological advances are pervasive but education reform is falling behind. In the last two centuries, both technology and education raced forward in the UK and US, generating rising living quality and massive economic expansion, however, ‘technology sprinted ahead of limping education in the last 30 years, leading to the recent upsurge in inequality’[10]. There is an urge to raise the stagnation in the level of AI education across the UK. The key question is that how do we prepare the UK general public for the impact of AI, the disparities and the future AI leaders from the UK to shape the directions not into the devil’s wings but the angel’s?
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 3 Aug 2018 |
