The Modern-Day Slaves: How Artificial Intelligence Is Going To Rule Over Us.
At the beginning of 21st CE, we created an assistant, a friend and, a demon “artificial intelligence (AI)”. Since its discovery, it has proved to be of paramount importance for humans. AI has found its role in numerous industries. Manufacturing, healthcare, banking, aerospace, and defence are some of the mighty industries which have become heavily dependent on AI.
It has already replaced humans with machines in factories, banks, marts, and toll plazas. Many more jobs are on the brink of extinction. Although, it might seem drastic for humans who went jobless because of AI. But AI is more frightful for the humans consuming it.
“That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.”, Nicholas Carr opined in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”.
Research has shown that the use of technology for minuscule tasks like calculations, online search, using maps while driving is making us dumber. Humans using maps on their smartphones usually don’t tend to remember roads and using calculators for even minute calculations is lowering our logical skills.
There’re mobile applications which remind to have a glass of water to the smartest species. Even the dumbest animal can feel its thirst and we, on the other hand, are being instructed by algorithms to feel the thirst.
AI alone was drastic enough to ruin the humans’ thinking, socializing and creativity skills. But the temptation of discovering or upgrading has led to the emergence of even more poignant Emotional Intelligence (EI) trained software and machines. EI is the capability of humans to acknowledge feelings, emotions, thinking, behaviour, and the understanding of their environment. It is one of the paramount factor involved in decision making and hence EI sounds more draconian than AI.
Machines are taking inputs from us on our activities, choices, and tastes and are improving themselves day by day based on it. Now machines can read our facial expressions, feel us, and can talk to us appropriately.
Also, we can see a huge improvement in the ways it is interacting with us and based on these activities they’re going to know us better than we ever knew us. It can contact us in such a way that we feel better in conversating with it rather than a human.
People are falling in love with these algorithms so much that they are seeking partners in them. Japan’s Konami has developed a love game called ‘love plus’ which has made thousands of Japanese men to infatuate with its character ‘Rinko, Nene, and Manaka’. They take them out on lunch dates, movies, amusement parks, etc. The obsession of these virtual girlfriends among them is so much that they don’t even understand that they are being controlled by emotional intelligence packed algorithms and have become slaves of it.
Humans are inefficient in understanding the emotions of other humans, whereas emotionally intelligent machines coupled with camera assessing facial expressions and recorders looking for voice modulations can easily understand the emotional condition of humans. They can help in detecting lies, analysing confidence, and even faked emotions.
Start-ups are even planning to replace humans with these emotionally intelligent machines for taking interviews and selecting candidates for the job. The decisive power of Human Resource executives will shift to these machines.
With rapidly evolving technology, the day is not far when machines and algorithms will be making all our decisions and we will be left with no choice apart from accepting it and letting them rule over us.
