Artificial intelligence: what have been your challenges?

Chosen as word of the year by the Urgent Spanish Foundation (FundéuRAE)artificial intelligence It is a relatively young discipline in the field of science because barely seventy years ago the expression began to be used, but its future can be infinite and unlimited because many of the most innovative developments go through this technology.

That future will have to clear up many of the unknowns and fears while it is already being used in numerous applications and services that millions of people use on a regular basis. a daily and not always conscious way.

(See: ‘Artificial intelligence’, the word of 2022, according to FundéuRAE).

under the umbrella of a scientific discipline which deals with creating computer programs that execute operations comparable to those carried out by the human mind -as defined by the RAE- artificial intelligence has been pursuing an objective for several decades: that machines are capable of replicating cognitive processes and The learning which until now was considered exclusive of the human mind.

based systems in artificial intelligence they have already been imposed on world champions of chess or poker; recognize facial features or voice, translate languages ​​simultaneously, they drive autonomously, or even perfect a medical diagnosis and what is the best treatment.

In an ordinary way, artificial intelligence has been incorporated into the daily lives of millions of people. (navigation, geolocation, computing, virtual assistants, etc.)and developers, scientists, technologists and politicians point out that it will be one of the best allies to face some of the main challenges that humanity faces.

And it is there where doubts arise, where the debate about the ethics of this technology breaks out, about the risks of the different gaps increasing. (geographical, age or gender), that machines can become completely autonomous and disobey or fail to comply the functions for which they were designed, and on the importance of these technologies not being left out of ethical values ​​and legality.

(See: The ‘Felizómetro’, the new artificial intelligence for companies).

The first time artificial intelligence was discussed was in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. (USA) and so did John McCarthy, a computer pioneer who ended up receiving the Turing Award, and since then the advances and achievements of this technology have followed one another.

He has already been able to paint as Rembrandt would have done after learning to recognize his painting patterns, to write poetry, to make sophisticated musical compositions, and is behind many of the technological developments that have tried to make their way in recent years, including the metaverse, the blockchain, virtual reality or the mining of data.

And it supports, for example, one of the technologies that has become fashionable in recent months: the ChatGPT developed by the American company OpenAI, a system that is currently free and capable of explaining in a simple way an exercise in quantum computing, so talk and empathize with the user, to make summaries or to write texts with total coherence and grammatical correctness.

(See: The end of the barcode? Artificial intelligence would end it).

but for now the AI it is not infallible; There have also been cases of ‘artificial stupidity’, and while countries and companies bet and invest in this technology, researchers and laboratories of ideas emphasize the limits that it should have, the importance of machines always being at the service of people and not the other way around, and the need to tackle biases (of gender, race or class) and to prevent the gaps from widening.

(See: Elon Musk’s AI Reveals Plan for World Domination.)

EFE