Importance of Advances in Artificial Intelligence

For centuries human beings have considered that our intelligence it was the maximum expression of the evolution of living species. This idea is no longer so widespread, since a new intelligence has emerged, faster and with a greater capacity to solve problems. We are talking about artificial intelligence, known by its acronym IA.

The possibilities of AI are limitless

In every age of humanity there has been a prevailing technology. From prehistory to the present, technology has been gradually perfected.

We started mastering fire, then stone and metals, we introduced the wheel, utensils for agriculture and daily life, gadgets and objects for war, machines to cross continents or to fly. We reached the 20th century and something revolutionary happened when machines and robots were designed to solve problems of all kinds.

Advances in AI are so important that it's hard to imagine what a machine couldn't do. Apart from the feelings and human emotions, a machine can do just about anything.

New opportunities

In recent years, advances in the field of AI have meant small achievements for humanity. Today it is possible for a device to know what we are saying through the movement of our lips.

With a conventional video camera you can see our body language. The autonomous driving sector has not stopped evolving and removing barriers to create new opportunities.

Artificial voices are getting closer to the human voice. AI programs defeat the great champions of chess or poker. Some diseases are more accurately diagnosed.

He human genome it is sequenced in an increasingly efficient way.

Each of the above examples represents a small achievement in the service of all.

There are also uncertainties and fears

Although AI represents an unquestionable conquest and advancement, it is not without its problems. In this sense, many wonder what will happen when human intelligence can be definitively replaced by the abilities of a robot (aside from its technical abilities, the robot does not get tired or protest or get angry humor).

If machines are incorporated into the world of work, work as we know it could disappear. This circumstance is worrying at first, but if we are intelligent we can create a world in which machines work and we dedicate ourselves to enjoying life as we wish.

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