Google supercomputer creates its own ‘AI CHILD’
Google supercomputer creates its own ‘AI CHILD’
GOOGLE has created its own “AI child” that is capable of
outperforming humans.
By Rachel O'Donoghue / Published 5th December 2017
The tech giant’s computer-made system known as NASNet is
able to identify objects, such as people and cars, in photos and videos.
According to studies, the Google “brain” can pick out
these objects with a 82.7% accuracy rate – something the company says is better
than any man-made AI system.
And the AI breakthrough will have a huge impact on the
entire field.
Experts have said the findings show automation is the key
to creating the most accurate AI systems – meaning Artificial Intelligence
would actually create more AI.
“Technology has always been a double-edged sword”
Ray Kurzweil, Google
NASNet itself was actually created earlier this year
AutoML, which is an AI system capable of creating more learning programmes.
The Google Brain team, which developed the mother system
AutoML, said: “We hope that the larger machine learning community will be able
to build on these models to address multitudes of computer vision problems we
have not yet imagined.”
But ethical concerns have been raised about the invention
of such powerful machines.
Tech site Futurism reported: “What if AutoML creates
systems so fast that society can't keep up? It's not very difficult to see how
NASNet could be employed in automated surveillance systems in the near future,
perhaps sooner than regulations could be put in place to control such systems.”
But Ray Kurzweil, Google’s engineering director, said AI
will “enhance” the world.
He said: “Technology has always been a double-edged sword
– fire kept us warm, cooked our food and burned down our houses.
“World War 2 – 50 million people died, and that was
certainly exacerbated by the power of technology at that time.
“My view is not that AI is going to displace us. It’s
going to enhance us. It does already.”
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