• Question: Do you think AI et cetera will make the future better or worse?

    Asked by Keya on 7 Jan 2020. This question was also asked by Bea.
    • Photo: Sreejita Ghosh

      Sreejita Ghosh answered on 7 Jan 2020:

      It depends on how we humans use AI. Throughout the years there have been inventions which can be used for both good and bad. For example, while some humans want to use nuclear power for energy, some want to weaponise it. While AI and robots can and should be used in reducing the repetitive tasks which humans otherwise would have had to do, for advancing healthcare, making some decision-making, such as sanction of loans by bank, acceptance by health insurance companies, some people find ways to use AI for harm the world. But there are some tricky areas, such as, when you ask a AI such as Deep Thought (clarification: the one from Hitchhikers’, not Carnegie Mellon), the answer to the ultimate question of life, universe and everything, you’ll get the answer 42, and you wouldn’t probably know what to do with that.

    • Photo: Maja Popovic

      Maja Popovic answered on 8 Jan 2020:

      It depends on how it is used.
      I think it can be great if it is used only for appropriate applications, and together with human supervision.

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