The Machines Are Coming!!
The AI revolution is upon us. Most of you would have listened to the telephone conversations Google Duplex had with humans. Most of you must also have marvelled at its astonishing ability to hold a conversation so nicely. It doesn’t matter that people pose moral questions ranging from the blatantly ridiculous “Who gave Google the right to treat telephone operators at small businesses as guinea pigs?” to the more nuanced “To make AI sound more human, would we teach it cuss words?” It really doesn’t matter what questions people ask. And if you think that AI is only going to remain being your personal assistant in the phone and can talk like Morgan Freeman or Amitabh Bachchan, think again. It wasn’t too long ago that people who follow the game of chess saw something that blew their minds. Google’s AI Alpha Zero learned to play chess. They just fed it the rules of the game. Then they gave it four (yes, FOUR) hours to practice by playing against itself. No “greatest games by GMs” ...
