BBC's Horizon series sends Marcus Du Sautoy to explore why man developed artificial intelligence, how far we have come and how soon will AI be doing a lot of thinking for us.
We are the only species that tries to create a non-life entity to do the hard work of "thinking" for us, presumably because a) we believe that our own intelligence can be annexed through artificially created one or b) AI's capability is potentially limitless, as oppose to human intelligence which has limits or c) we want AI to do the hard work to free us time for higher thinking?
Today, computer algorithms are already being used to make "decisions" for human. Google and facebook design their software to "know and understand" users so that they provide the information of their choosing, mostly to fit with their advertising. The Skynet concept will probably become a reality in our (gen x) lifetime.
Of the two scenarios, one in which we look for ways to incorporate AI's capability into our own and one in which we assign machines to do the hard work for us, I think the machine has a better idea!
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