The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence

AI won’t take over humanity, But its illusion will

Shalitha Suranga
5 min readNov 2, 2020
A labyrinth. Photo by Luemen Carlson on Unsplash

We all enjoy AI-takeover movies where Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes the dominant form of intelligence. Whereas, we haven’t experienced such a situation in reality yet with the modern state of technology. However, theories of AI help humans to automate everything to save time. For example, AI is massively used in the manufacturing segment to boost the production rate and also to achieve more accuracy factors in the production process. Furthermore, AI plays a huge role in situations where humans can be easily replaced with more efficient computer-based systems. For example, consider a parking area where many vehicles come and go. Object detection and pattern recognition AI concepts based systems replace humans who can also record and assign a location for each vehicle in the parking area.

Undoubtedly, AI is a great innovation for humanity. Whereas, like every modern technological concept it has bad parts too. Indeed, AI is just about making decisions as a human does, decision making can be done in two ways: with the help of provided supportive conditions (classical machine learning) and without (deep learning).

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