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Is artificial intelligence dangerous? 5 AI risks everyone should know about.

Syamlal CM — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 10:28:53 +0000

Our most significant gift is that we can think and work based on our thinking, but you must have noticed that we sometimes put ourselves in danger because of our thinking only. This fact about human intelligence which is also known as Natural intelligence that's in a person. But what about Artificial intelligence, do you think that artificial intelligence is too dangerous for us?

If you want to know more about the risks of AI and to clarify is AI dangerous thoroughly? Then do follow this article till the end, as in this article, we are going to discuss 5 AI risks everyone should know about.

A brief introduction to AI

Artificial intelligence is the thinking power that digital computers and such devices have. As we humans have our intelligence, the same is the case with computers they have artificial intelligence.

Do you know that John McCarthy is the father of AI, and he was able to invent artificial intelligence by adding several developments in The Logic Theorist, which was designed by Newell and Simon?

This was all about a small intro about AI, let us now have a look at some benefits and uses of artificial intelligence.

You would be able to get complete work and that too 24/7 with the help of your machines that AI sets up. Moreover, there would be no need for a human to operate those machines, as they would work on their own.
If you are using a smartphone or have it in your life, then it means that you are also using AI in several ways. Some of the methods are like using the assistant in our smartphones. With the help of this, we can let our smart device do the work with our voice commands. With the help of AI, you can get a better result in the maps that you use in your smartphones.
Facial recognition features are now available on almost every smart device, no matter if it's your smartphone or laptop. This is also provided to us by AI only, and now it's being used worldwide.
Various banks and financial departments are using artificial intelligence for numerous works and some of those works are to handle the accounting work, calling, and form filling works. Many more such things are handled by AI efficiently.
Helping in several medical sectors works. Various new devices have been introduced with the help of which we can know about any health problems that we are facing, with its solution and these devices are also working based on AI.

I know this won't cover all the topics. But you can refer to the “Complete guide to AI” article to learn more. Let us now move toward the central section: Is AI dangerous?

Is AI dangerous?

Before moving forward, I have a question for you, tell me about one such thing, which is not dangerous for us in any way. I am sure that you would have to put a lot of pressure on your brain, but even then also you would be unable to find at least a single such product.

The same is the case with AI. Yes, I know that AI is beneficial and has a lot of potential in it with the help of which it is helping in several works. But the fact is also true that AI is dangerous.

Moreover, when AI was introduced during that time, several people were sure that in the future AI could become a risk to the human world. So let us have a look at the risks that AI has and everyone should know about.

5 AI risks everyone should know about

There are numerous risks of using AI, but the top 5 AI risks that everyone should know about are as follows-

1. Weaponized Programming

You must have heard that AI is being used by the security forces of various countries, with the help of which they are creating robot soldiers who will fight for them during wartime. But the most significant risk is that those robots are designed to shoot enemies for which they are also provided with weapons, but in case even a single set of those robots gets wrong, then they can even start shooting their forces.

This states that we cannot entirely rely on AI for almost everything.

2. Social Control

AI is targeting our privacy in an all-new way and we are not even able to imagine that our privacy is in danger. With the help of social media, AI can know several things about us, in which there are our likings, interests, and many more such things. Through this we are being targeted with marketing strategies, and we are forced to buy a thing that we like with the help of those marketing and psychological strategies.

3. Privacy Invasion

I don't know why we become blind while using social media and other such things, where we are openly sharing several personal details about ourselves. All these things are being caught up with the help of AI. Hence the companies or organizations behind it can track us and our every move online easily.

Hence the collected data about a particular person is being used in several ways, which is also a risk factor of AI.

4. Higher Intelligence

As we have mentioned above AI has enormous potential, and can be used for several good things, but being a product with a higher potential, it becomes tough to control it. You might have heard that once Facebook created two AI programs, that started chatting with each other, it became out of control.

5. Wrong Deeds

Once someone got access to any AI program if they programmed it to do something wrong, then no one would be able to control it. Although we are saying that AI is highly potential, helpful, and knowledgeable, we forget that it's programmable and can be used to do any work.

Conclusion

As discussed in the last point AI can be beneficial, but it is a programmable product, that can be modified to do any work, no matter good or bad. With that, we have come to the end of this article in which we had a look at the top 5 risks of AI that everyone should know.

What is the Difference Between AI and Machine Learning?

Syamlal CM — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 07:00:19 +0000

There are several things that you feel are the same or similar, but in actuality, they have several differences in them. Today we are going to talk about one such item, which a lot of people think are similar or almost the same but are not. The things we are going to discuss Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Machine Learning. I am sure that there would still be some people saying that they are the same, but there are several differences between these things. With the help of this article, let us have a look at both of these things, their differences, similarities, and many more such things.

All about AI

Artificial Intelligence is the ability that has been provided to computer systems with the help of which a computer device can work on its own without taking any help from a human or other outer sources. A lot of AI tools and frameworks are there to help us in the development. Three processes take place in the case of AI those are as follows-

Learning- Before being able to work on its own, AI is made to learn several things. In this learning process, you can make an AI system remember several things and you can modify the data according to your use.
Reasoning- With the help of AI, your system would be able to do the reasoning process on its own. This means that your system is set to solve mathematical problems. Then based on its reasoning capabilities, you would be able to get the correct answer to your mathematical questions quickly. Not only mathematical but AI can handle various other types of reasoning processes.
Self-Correction- As we know no one is correct; at some point, we all make some errors and mistakes. So the AI system does not make any error or mistake in its processes or solution, it always follows the self-correction and self-enhancement feature.

This was all about the processes that take place during the working of the AI system. Let us now have a look at some places where AI is being used extensively nowadays.

Smartphone industry- AI is being used in the smartphone industry extensively. As you must have noticed features such as facial recognition, voice recognition, smart hubs, and many more such things, all these things are introduced with the help of AI only.
Factories- Several factories are using AI systems and robots for various processes such as production, manufacturing, and many more.
Automobile industry- We all heard about self-driven cars; this has also become possible because of AI. Moreover, many more features are available to us just because of AI.

Although there are many more uses of AI, the above-listed are some of them.

All about machine learning

Machine learning is an essential part of AI. With the help of machine learning, AI can learn new things and hence able to enhance itself with the help of learning experience. Machine learning works in two significant steps; those are as follows-

Accessing and learning from data- Machine learning first fetches data from various sources, with the help of which it learns several things from that data. This data can be about anything, as you can select data according to the type of work you need the system for.
Using data and enhancing it- Once the machine learning system has learned various processes from that data. The next work would be to use that data, and you would love to hear that the working process keeps on enhancing with the help of work experience.

This was all about the working of machine learning, let us now have a look at some uses of machine learning-

Personal assistants- Nowadays everyone uses the personal assistants of their smart devices, such as Siri, Alexa, Google Now, and many more, with the help of which they can make their life a little bit more accessible and easier. These personal assistants work based on machine learning, as it first accesses data, and then use it for daily benefits.
Social media services- With the help of machine learning, we can get targeted ads based on our interests. You must have noticed ads and posts of your interest, people you may know section, and many more such things.

These were some of the uses of machine learning.

Difference between AI and Machine learning

We have already mentioned above that Machine learning is a part of AI, but let us have a look at the differences that we can find between AI and Machine Learning.

Applying knowledge- AI works by collecting data from various sources after which it also applies that knowledge and data. In the case of machine learning, the only work you would be able to get is the collection of data.
Enhanced accuracy- With AI, you would be able to increase the rate of success in any of the work handled by it. In the case of machine learning, you would be able to increase the accuracy, not the chances of success.
Not a computer program- AI is a computer program because of which it can work with higher efficiency. But in the case of machine learning, it is a simple concept, in which it fetches data and learns from it.
Problem-solving- The primary goal of AI is to make a system able to solve highly complex problems too. The purpose of machine learning is to enhance the performance of a system.
Decision-making- You must have noticed that AI is decision-making, but machine learning is a kind of system that learns new things from data only.
Optimal solution- With the help of AI, you will be able to get an optimal solution for your problems. In the case of machine learning, you will get a simple answer, no matter if it is optimal or not.

This was all about the differences between AI and Machine learning.

Conclusion

Here we have come to the end of this article in which we focused on the differences between AI and Machine learning. Several people thought that both the terms are similar, but with the help of this article, they would be able to know everything about AI and Machine learning and hence would be able to become aware of the differences between these two terms thoroughly.

7 Powerful Benefits of Blogging for your Small Business

Syamlal CM — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 06:05:12 +0000

One of the best and most effective ways to take your business to new heights within a short interval of time is blogging. This is one of the easiest ways to get maximum positive outcomes and also helps you to reach a targeted audience for your products and services. Moreover, if you have a small business, then blogging can be the best option for you to enhance your business. In this article, we will discuss 7 powerful benefits of blogging for your small business.

What is blogging?

In the starting days when blogging was introduced, people used it for writing journals with the help of which they were able to write about their day and what they feel about various things. But now blogging has taken several steps ahead and offers numerous benefits. Nowadays, people use blogging for marketing for their products and services. It is a good source of income for several people and many more such things.

Benefits of Blogging for Your Small Business

Although there are numerous benefits of blogging for small businesses, the below-listed are some of the most powerful and efficient ones.

1. Boosts SEO

With the help of blogging for your small business, we would be able to provide fresh content to these search engines. Hence, it will boost the SEO, with which we would be able to attract more visitors to our website, where we would be able to make our brand and products/services awareness.

2. Relationship Development

With the help of consistent blogging, we would be able to stay in touch with our old and new customers easily. Because of this in case they want to know anything about our products and services, then they would be able to know that easily.

3. Establishing a Brand

We would be able to create our brand with the help of blogging and making enhancements to it, with the help of which we would be able to reach more and more users.

4. Connecting People

As we have mentioned above with the help of blogging, we would be able to fetch more visitors to our site. This is one of the best ways to connect with new people and hence enhance our brand and convert them into our customers.

5. Customers Linking

When we start blogging for our small business, then we will be able to offer one of the essential benefits to our visitors. This is to share the links of our blogs to other customers, with the help of which we would be able to fetch more customers out of our customers only.

6. Products Updates

In case we have some updates on our products and services, then with the help of blogging, we would be able to tell that to our customers easily.

7. Value Content

This is my favorite benefit of business blogging. We would be able to provide valuable content to our customers in addition to which we would be able to do the marketing of our products and services too.

Conclusion

Blogging is the most efficient way to enhance our business no matter how small or big, with the help of this article, we have had a look at 7 most powerful benefits of blogging for small businesses.

NW.js - A Comprehensive Framework to Build Desktop Apps

Syamlal CM — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:08:51 +0000

The world of programming is concentrating on native apps other than web apps nowadays. The frameworks to build cross-platform mobile applications such as Flutter, React Native, Xamarin, Native Script are getting more popular. But what about cross-platform desktop application development? Electron.js, Meteor, Proton Native, Xojo, etc. are the frameworks to build cross-platform applications. One of the good options in this category is NW.js. In this tutorial, we can learn a little bit about NW.js and the advantages of choosing it for desktop application development.

What is NW.JS?

NW.js created by Roger Wang is a framework that uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for building desktop applications. The original name of the framework is Node Webkit, and he developed it while working at Inter Open Source Technology Center in China.

The framework is a combination of Node.js with Chromium and with this method, the application can load local sites, and react with the operating system through the JavaScript API.

Why do we need to use NW.js?

NW.js is becoming popular amongst programmers, as it is preferred for some obvious reasons. Even as a newbie, NW.js is recommended for building your application.

Now let’s look at the reasons why we need to use NW.js:

Coding using JavaScript becomes more efficient with this framework. There is more efficiency in the correlation between the server and the client-side of the process. This increases efficiency with this framework, closing the frontend and backend developer.
When it comes to building real-time apps, such as chatting apps, gaming, social media applications, and any app that needs communication in real-time choosing NW.js makes the development easier.
There is increased productivity, using multiple tools and models. This is ensured with the Node Package Manager in this framework.
It is perfect for enterprise apps with its microservices.

Advantages of Choosing NW.js

The Electron.js, Meteor, Proton Native, etc. are the popular competitors of NW.js. But we have some advantages in choosing NW.js other than these. Let’s take a look at them.
We can observe that NW.js gives programmers more freedom to work. And this makes it very popular among programmers.
While comparing all of them, NW.js can be operated on all platforms and operating systems. They all use chromium engine UI, which provides an easy and smooth surface for operations.
NW.js provides solid protection with its java source protection and you can get it on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.

Conclusion

In the latest version of NW.js, there has been a tremendous improvement in start-up time. The improvement of the start-up time from the previous version is 30 percent. Memory issues can be investigated with heap dump capability. Available memory can be used instead of default memory for the javascript heap dump. So NW.js may become the best cross-platform desktop application development