Social Media AI

The fact that Facebook uses AI to help its users does not surprise me at all. I have known all this time about this specific feature but never knew it was considered artificial intelligence. There are various amounts of websites that have this feature including Instagram and YouTube (that I know about). This lies within the argument that we are living post-human because we barely think about our interests, it now just pops on a screen because you have viewed something similar. Without us knowing, artificial intelligence is taking its stance on earth whether we like it or not, or even if we notice (which we don't). Facebook in fact is for the people, but artificial intelligence spices things up a bit. In other words, it gives people ideas of what they may or may not be interested in. AI on social networks gives humans options to whether or not they want to see certain posts again. So, in a way AI does not completely take over, it just steps in to give a jump start on one's thoughts sometimes. We haven't gotten close to Vernor Vinge's inflection point just yet. His definition of inflection point is when AI machines are able to outsmart humans. I believe that we are on the path of getting there, but so far all AI can possibly do is take over a humans job. It is scary to think that a human being will even want to make something that is smarter than them and possibly cause an extinction of the human race. If we had only AI machines for only certain tasks such as curing cancer then that is fine. But when you put so much knowledge into one object it can be very dangerous and outsmart you even though you created it. In closing, I leave you with a quote from a Control consultant, Bela Liptak, "Automation opened a new chapter in human evolution... this can be a great achievement, but can also become a slippery slope for human civilization". In other words, do we just sit around and not work on something that can potentially become the greatest thing ever, or work on something that can end our lives forever?

http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2016/is-artificial-intelligence-dangerous/.