Why Artificial Intelligence will not obliterate humanity!

The great minds of today seem to fear that Artificial Intelligence or the so called ''AI'' will take over and slaughter the human race once they come to a point that they outsmart us and takeover the very ground we step on today. But they don't seem to take in to consideration the fact that the technological advancements are still very far off from really creating an object or so called the ''AI'' that blows in to control of everything.

Social Impacts

To take in to consideration the advantages of Artificial Intelligence to our community as one of the biggest creations as a technological advancement is that, "AI" is something that actually helps average consumers such as ourselves to have menial jobs completed for us since Artificial Intelligence unlike humans don't really need the regular maintenance or miscellaneous needs such as day offs etc. This would obviously appeal as an advantage for consumers as people would generally use this as a reason to complete other important tasks that they do in a daily basis which would decrease the intensity of their workload. An example of this is the self driving cars. In this scenario, if people take this opportunity in consideration, they are able to run different things whilst the process of travelling from one destination to another is happening, for example :- when college students are under the course of traffic and are on the way to school they are able to complete tasks set for the day if not done so saving them from trouble and time harassment in the mere future.


Ethical Issues

With all the big Artificial Intelligence manufacturing companies out there today for example DeepMind, it is not far off from their "AI" products being manipulated by cheaper manufacturers and results would be amazingly similar since plagiarism today isn't really hard to conduct. Secondly, with the rapid development of "AI", sooner or later they will reach to a point in which they would be able to make independent resourcing plans and activities without the actual command of humans having to make them do. Although this might seem like a social impact to industries it might also arise as an issue since plans that are conducted independently by these machines might not be wanted by the company itself so this might come out as the "AI" being made redundant.



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How "Cloud computing" affects education and developments in society

As technology today continues with development making the ease of use of devices very flexible and efficient, a lot of different cases of internal evolution has occurred altogether with the futuristic development of these devices. For example the smart phone's, personal computers, embedded systems etc.

One of the biggest cases in development has been the birth of cloud computing. Here users are able to share information to different users or himself/herself with ease as it is all connected to a cloud.

Social Impacts

Education wise, cloud computing has affected widely both positively and negatively. One of the negative impacts although can be considered positive that cloud computing has affecting students education with is that the ability of students being able to access data from anywhere. This means that students are able to access delicate information without constraints. This is able to be classified as theft/cheating depending on the cases.The positive side of this however is that the information can be for research use.  Cloud computing can also heavily affect the development of an industry as it said to be used for research use and external costs that are included in research will be completely cut as the access through the cloud along the connection between the devices is at ease.

Ethical Issues

Together with the posting of delicate information along the cloud comes along the vulnerability of the information available. Problems such as control over personal data may arise since the ability of taking information from others is very easy once it is present in the "cloud connection". As the continuous growth of cloud computing continues, this may result to the domination prior to the different aspects of the internet. This develops into the further redundancy in the different processes with sharing specific information along the internet. For example the use of external drives (memory sticks) may be made redundant as cloud computing will be looked as an easier and faster way of sharing information from one device to another.