How can
artificial intelligence simplify or reduce physical efforts in the future? What
benefits will it provide?
This is the speech which was the first place in the category for 10th graders called Influencers.
Good morning
to everyone my name is Isabella Duarte and this is my partner Natalia Rojas and
today we would like that together we can discover the help that we need to
finally have a better and brighter future.
So, first of
all, we would like you to know that we are considered the Z generation. Experts
in the topic have described us as young and super creative people, as the
generation of the "here and now": But why? Because we are used to
having at our disposal any type of information and our brain doesn’t work in a
linear way, but rather with the complex depth with which the World Wide Web
operates. We tend to have less social prejudices and are generally present in
almost all networks, we live mostly alternating YouTube, Snapchat and
Instagram. As digital natives, part of our skills are very oriented towards a
technological future.
Technology is
everywhere today. It would be impossible to go your entire life without using a
technological device. Computers, TV’s, and phones are things that we use in a daily
basis. It is for this reason that for decades we have been trying to improve
their functioning and intelligence to make our lives easier and more
accessible. And the key to this is artificial intelligence.
The easier
way to think of Artificial Intelligence is picturing a human being after all
AI’s goal is to create a system that can function intelligently and
independently. Humans can speak and listen to communicate, they can read and
write in different languages, they can observe and process every detail to
understand a specific situation, they can create an image in their heads,
interpret it and store it, and they can even recognize all things around them
and move fluidly through them. Scientists have developed this science called AI
in which technological devices are and will continue to be able to develop and
act in certain aspects as human beings because of certain characteristics that
nowadays technology has, like processing of images, speech recognition,
symbolic learning, and language processing between others.
But how does
all this information benefits us?
Even if you
are living under a rock, there is a high possibility you are tweeting from
underneath it. If Twitter’s not your choice of poison, maybe it’s Facebook or
Instagram, or Snapchat or any of the myriad of social media apps out there.
Well if you are using social media, most of your decisions are being impacted
by artificial intelligence.
AI takes all
your past behavior, web searches, interactions, and everything else that you do
when you are on these websites and tailors the experience just for you, that's
why when you are looking for an specific thing, many images of what you're
looking for popped up in your screen. The purpose of AI here is to make the
apps more addictive so you come back again and again, and I am ready to place a
bet that AI is winning this war against you, but not only this, with this
property AI allows you to choose the best thing you need in a quicker way.
Now, do you
think this is the only way in which AI can help us? Well, let me tell that that
if you think that then you’re wrong.
Something
that has us all going crazy are video games, this industry is probably one of
the earliest adopters of AI. The integration started very small with the use of
AI to generate random levels that people can play. However, that has increased
to a level which goes far beyond what one can even imagine. When you are
playing for example Fortnite you essentially start against a couple of
AI-powered bots and then move to play against real players. Even when you are
playing a single person story mode game, you are playing against AI bots. So,
if you play any game, you are using AI.
And maybe you
are thinking right now that, well AI is present in video games and the internet
but does it really aids me, with real life complications?
I can assure
you it does, AI is not only focused on the internet but also in our daily
lives, talking about this, there is no better demonstration of this technology
than what smart cars and drones manufacturers are doing with it. Just a few
years back, using a fully automatic car was a dream, however, now companies
like Tesla have made so much progress.
Tesla cars
are a prime example of how the AI is impacting our lives. Did you know that all
the Tesla cars are connected and the things that your car learns is shared
across all the cars? That means, if you had to take an unanticipated hard-left
on a cross-road, all the Tesla cars will know how to maneuver that turn after
they are updated.
According to
figures from the Colombian Automobile Club, traffic accidents represent 27.55%
of violent deaths in the country. Wouldn’t it be nice to let your kid go have
fun with his friends and take the car without having the constant feeling of
worrying that he might be in a car accident because of using his phone or just
a simple distraction?
Statistics
show that human drivers get into a car crash every 492 thousand miles while
autonomous cars like tesla get into one every 1.92 million miles. This meaning
that AI cars are almost 4 times safer than normal cars.
And it
doesn’t stop there Companies like Amazon and Walmart are heavily investing in
drone delivery programs and it will become a reality far sooner than what you
expect. If you think that’s far-fetched, do note that militaries all over the
world are already using successful drone programs.
With
autonomous cars running on our roads and autonomous drones flying above us, you
won’t be able to deny the impact of AI on our lives.
And as if
this wasn’t enough the banking and finance industry plays a major role in our
lives. I mean the world runs on money and banks are essentially the gatekeepers
that regulate that flow. Did you know that the banking and finance industry
heavily relies on artificial intelligence for things like customer service,
fraud protection, investment, and more? A simple example is the automated
emails that you receive from banks whenever you do an out of the ordinary
transaction. AI is also being trained to look at large samples of fraud data
and find a pattern so that you can be warned before it happens to you. Also,
when you hitch a little snag and chat with bank’s customer service, chances are
that you are chatting with an AI bot.
If this last
prove of the benefits that AI provides us doesn’t convince you then I don’t
know what will.
One of the
major obstacles since the beginning of times that humans have had to face are diseases
that bring frustration, sadness, pain and even death. But not anymore with
artificial intelligence, the path that will open our in face of the cure of
many illnesses. Have you heard of the word tinnitus?
Tinnitus is a
physical condition, experienced as noises or ringing in the ears or head when
no such external physical noise is present. Tinnitus is usually caused by a
fault in the hearing system. To picture this condition we need to make a close
up to the cochlea, for those who don’t know the cochlea is a part of the inner
ear composed by 20,000 frequencies, you
can imagine a piano in the form of a spiral with 20,000 thousand tiles that
sound differently. The exposure to constant strong sounds for example in a
construction can trigger the appearance of Tinnitus, a constant sound that
drives people crazy because it never goes away. Before AI there wasn’t even a
chance to improve this patient’s life. Right now with the development of that
technology of the REVE134 the significant improvement for this people’s life is
a reality. And like this, AI is used in millions of conditions ameliorating
people’s quality of life.
Most of you
might be thinking that creating robots or apps as intelligent as we were
mentioning may result in the replacement and eventually the extinction of human
race if we want to over exaggerate, but actually what we must think is that
this robots will never be the same as us they will only make our lives easier,
robots will never have the love, passion, happiness or curiosity from where big
inventions such as this emerge. Yes they will be able to work and perform
activities as us but they will always need us to adjust them, fix them and
create them. We mustn’t let our ego, and thought of superiority intervene in
our way of evolving and simplifying our daily lives.
More than
just technology and inventions, AI represents “the light in our future” and all
of you must think oh! how cliché or poetic, this idea is utopic, but actually
it isn’t that off, millions of years ago who would have thought that airplanes
would have been invented and look at us now, and we can go on and on, on the
goals we have achieved, so who says that AI is not the key to erasing a past of
contamination, death, illnesses, violations, robberies. The benefits we have
right now because of this science are only the beginning but it's definitely up
to us to let the light into the darkness.
Remember
“Predicting the future isn’t magic, it's artificial intelligence”. -Dave Waters
SPEECH BY
NATALIA ROJAS AND
ISABELLA DUARTE, Step 10
