6 Recent Remarkable But Scary Developments In Artificial Intelligence

Countless films based on AI taking over life as we know it often depict the end of the world, but did you know AI is evolving at an alarming rate? In fact, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and even Bill Gates share a fear of the very thought of an AI takeover.

1. Humanlike appearances
This artificially intelligent machine named Yangyang bears a striking resemblance to Sarah Palin, but she’s just a robot right ? Yanyang can shake your hand or even offer you a hug! Developed by Hiroshi Ishiguro a famous Japanese robot expert together with Song Yang, a Chinese professor of robotics, actually she’s is named after Song Yang’s daughter Yang Haunting.

Of course Yangyang isn’t the only robot that looks like a human being, Nadine, another intelligent robot developed by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) actually works as a receptionist there! Nadine can smile, shake hands, make eye contact and meet and greet guests. She can also remember previous guests and talk to them based on conversions they have had in the past.

And we all have heard the story about Sophia Robot who became the world’s first robot citizen, she was given citizenship of Saudi Arabia. Now this is huge!

2. Understanding human behaviour
We’ve all got a Facebook account right ? The world’s most influential social media platform is already a massive part of our daily life. Did you know that every time you use Facebook you are interacting with a form of artificial intelligence? It’s true Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook is using AI to understand human behaviour.

Analysing human interaction on Facebook, the AI can then recommend many feeds that we might be interested in. It doesn’t stop there either, Zuckerberg has big plans to integrate AI into others areas such as medicine. Don’t panic yet, for now Facebook’s AI can only recognise pattern behaviour, but you can be sure that the boffins at Facebook are working on smarter, faster AIs as we speak!