Google DeepMind AI Will Either Take Over The World Or Help Humanity Advance

DeepMind is the artificial intelligence firm that is notable for two reasons. The first is its acquisition by Google and the second is how it created an algorithm that keeps beating Go champions one after another. Now one of the most successful AI firms in the world, DeepMind also achieved a breakthrough where its algorithm can start learning like how humans do. This has caused both excitement and fear within the scientific community.

As the Inquisitr reports, some of the world’s most brilliant individuals that include famed physicist Stephen Hawking and tech industry giant Elon Musk have been warning the world about the potential dangers that AIs pose to humanity. Despite these warnings, companies like Google and Apple continue on the path to creating smarter and more intuitive machines that could far surpass human intellect in the future.

With DeepMind’s new AI learning capability, the firm just allowed a machine to emulate how humans collect information and then solve problems by using what it learned from its past experience. This is exactly how the best minds in history have been able to overcome obstacles in the past, which has allowed humanity to advance as far as it did. Now, this ability has been handed over to a machine.

Even worse than having the capacity to think like a human, AIs also have the advantage of not forgetting the skills that it learned, like so many people are prone to do. This makes them considerably more formidable if ever both parties are put to the test.

Of course, DeepMind has no intention of allowing the AI to use this capability to rule over mankind in the way that a lot of people fear. In a piece by the Financial Times, the firm’s co-founder, Demis Hassabis revealed how the development of the technology could vastly improve society as a whole.

Even now, the technology that the firm has developed is being used for more efficient diagnosis of diseases, in the development of better medicine, and even improving both energy production and consumption. Hassabis also notes that its unique environment helps makes those things possible.

“We’ve hired 250 of the world’s best scientists, so obviously they’re here to let their creativity run riot, and we try and create an environment that’s perfect for that,” he said.