Artificial intelligence is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception and decision making. This is the meaning and the gist I grasp from all the details of an explanation.
Every time I turn on my television news or computer news, I am reading about what AI has achieved or completed. Actually, the idea of AI goes back 1000’s of years with automatons, mechanical machines that moved independently of human intentions or acting of one’s own will. A machine functioning on its own is quite ancient. Hanson Robotics even create a humanoid robot, Sophia known as the first robot citizen several years ago. She had a human appearance and the ability to see and replicate emotions and communicate. I never met her and I’m not really sure I would like to. And, they have made a ‘no driver” car, a Mercedes van and It’s set to function with a computer system and sensors to read the environment only on roads where there are no other cars. No DRIVING MISS DAISY yet. We, as you know have all experienced some AI on our smart phones with Siri. My husband talks to his frequently asking about the weather and scores on football games.
Some very funny things I have read is about how AI, like we humans becomes confused and gives some very illogical answers. Ask how to get the cheese to stick to the pizza, use glue.
AI once insisted that running with scissors would be a health benefit as it would increase your heartrate and improve concentration, and as a lady’s blinker on her car was not working and she ask AI, he suggested ‘blinker fluid’.
There is some bad and concerning things about Ai a well as the fun things. AI can create fake videos and audio, making serious risk for misinformation and fraud. Your voice can be replicated, and persons can call people who know and recognize your voice causing chaos in our lives. AI robots can and have taken some of the occupation’s humans depend on. Cyber-attacks, mass surveillance and tracking of persons, and releasing private data on citizens are a few other things AI can do. However, we do know it’s not all bad or it would have not progressed as far as it has. It’s a great diagnostic tool for doctors, faster drug development for diseases, enhanced patient care, weather predictors, disaster response and too many other things to mention.
Open AI has begun beta testing a GPT model that can create poetry, and other language and writing tasks almost independent from humans. Who knows one day you may be reading a column that’s called “Siri’s Sayings”.
SEMI HOME MADE CHICKEN AND DRESSING
1 package of Cornbread Stove Top Stuffing, 1 can of Cream of Chicken Soup, ¼ cup of butter, 1 T. of poultry seasoning, 1 T. onion powder, 1 Garlic powder, 1 ½ cups boiling water, 1 pound of chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces. Make stove top stuffing according to directions and then add remaining ingredients. Bake at 400* for. 35 minutes.
