AI: The Future of Humanity

Artificial intelligence is everywhere; toasters, refrigerators, cars, phones, eyeglasses, you name it. In the past few years, the knowledge that AI can possess dwarfs the intellectual capability of its human creators! You can’t tell me that’s not incredible. I mean, there are still so many problems in the world just left without an answer. If AI surpassed the intellectual range of humans, and “the sky is the limit” for us, then what’s the limit for artificial intelligence?

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Hello! Welcome back to another blog entry! I’m really excited about this one. If you’ve read my previous blogs, you would know that, because I’m a STEM student, I’m going to have to enter my school’s annual science fair. In a nutshell, the last time I entered, it was a very… unpredictable experience for me. But this time, I’ve been thinking about venturing into the waters of artificial intelligence or neural networking. 

I’ve been doing my research, and what I’ve found changed my entire perspective on things. What I once thought was just a super fancy search engine, actually has so much potential that it could solve Einstein’s unified field theory!

Before you ask, no; I’m not going to try to solve the unified field theory with AI (I wouldn’t be here if I was, anyway). My point is that the databases that many people use to scramble together last-minute papers and essays can solve, or at least explore, never-been-conceived theories that we all have just… left out to dry. 

I know what you’re thinking: “If a young, teenage girl can figure this out, I’m sure someone else has thought of this before.” 

You’re not wrong! Many people have thought of using AI to solve global issues, especially in healthcare. Currently, studies are being conducted on how AI can benefit the world in healthcare and if it has the potential to do things that take humans years to figure out, like making vaccines and finding the cure to cancer. A few years ago, a young girl named Kavya Kopparapu programmed an AI model to predict diagnoses across a large range with one hundred percent accuracy. 

One. Hundred. Percent.

That’s not the only shocking part. What blew my mind was that she started this project as a science fair entry! She’s now an innovator with a Harvard degree. Want to learn more about her and her cause? Check her page:

Kavya Kopparapu

But, technically AI can be used in any field, not just healthcare. Yes, if it’s beneficial in the healthcare industry, then it can get a lot more recognition and credibility because it’s working to save lives. But, if you think about it, AI could be used in anything.

Think of AI as a little baby; the more you train and improve it, the better results it will show you. The only difference is, if you do everything right, your AI model will end up at least three times smarter than you (I guess you would know when your model is ready or not pretty easily then). The data you use could be about animals, space, the ocean, the weather, and of course, humans. But your AI model would have a similar build to other models like them; they just have different data.

If you think about things that way, then there’s almost nothing you couldn’t solve with AI. I’m still new to the whole thing, but after a few articles and videos, this is what I got.

So, to answer my question from the introduction, AI doesn’t have a specific limit; if the limit for us is the sky, then the limit for AI is probably the sun!

What Do You Think?

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have so much more to it than just solving problems. So, let’s explore a few possibilities right now!

• If you had a chance to pick one place of research to know all about, what would it be?

• What’s a problem that you wish would’ve never occurred?

• If there’s one thing you would try to attempt using AI, what would it be?