Governance rids fear of AI

Intelligence means something that you can understand and apply, i.e human intelligence. AI replicates human intelligence and it is all done in algorithms.

“AI is a skill and an aptitude to learn and apply, and if it can be done artificially, then that is AI,” Sharala says.

Commenting on whether people should worry about AI taking over the world, she says AI has different levels to it.

“Universal intelligence is where AI has the ability to acquire intelligence, even access data. AI can only be at its best if you give it a vast amount of data and only with data wil you get the best of AI.

“What everybody fears is general AI — thinking like a human being.” For example, if it is a self-learning machine, it will say: My goal is 1,000 paper clips so what can potentially stop me from reaching my goal? Oh maybe, I can be shut down. So how do I find a way not to be shut down?

“That’s the fear. Thinking almost like humans, figuring out in advance to ensure that it can achieve its goal of 1,000 paper clips a day — that’s the difference between a normal robot and AI.”

Alexa, Siri and AlphaGo are the height of AI. The game of Go originated in China 3,000 years ago. Its rules are simple: players take turns to place black or white stones on a board, trying to capture the opponent’s stones or surround empty spaces to make points of territory. As simple as the rules are, Go is a game of profound complexity with over 170 possible board configurations — more than the number of atoms in the known universe, making it a more complex game than chess.

In 2015, AlphaGo become the first computer program to defeat a professional human Go player, the Go world champion, said to be the strongest Go player yet.

AlphaGo has continued to surprise and amaze. Last year, an improved AlphaGo version achieved 60 straight wins in online fast time-control games against top international Go players where it began to play the game by playing against itself, starting