{"id":450402,"date":"2022-05-20T21:12:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-beginners-guide-to-ai-machine-superiority\/"},"modified":"2022-05-20T21:12:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:12:40","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-ai-machine-superiority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-beginners-guide-to-ai-machine-superiority\/","title":{"rendered":"#A beginner\u2019s guide to AI: Machine superiority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a272f69478e3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a272f69478e3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-beginners-guide-to-ai-machine-superiority\/#%E2%80%9CA_beginners_guide_to_AI_Machine_superiority%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A beginner\u2019s guide to AI: Machine superiority&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-beginners-guide-to-ai-machine-superiority\/#Greetings_humanoids\" >Greetings humanoids<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-beginners-guide-to-ai-machine-superiority\/#The_tradeoff\" >The tradeoff<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-beginners-guide-to-ai-machine-superiority\/#Machine_superiority\" >Machine superiority<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-beginners-guide-to-ai-machine-superiority\/#Tools_of_the_trade\" >Tools of the trade<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_beginners_guide_to_AI_Machine_superiority%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A beginner\u2019s guide to AI: Machine superiority&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            There currently exists no machine capable of superhuman feats of intelligence. I\u2019m sorry to be the one who bursts your bubble but, at least for the time being, that\u2019s the way the universe works.<\/p>\n<p>It might seem like AI is smarter than humans in some ways. For example, the powerful neural networks used by big tech can sort through millions of files in a matter of seconds, a feat that would take humans more than a single lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not a superhuman feat of intellect. It\u2019s trading human attention for machine speed. On a file per file basis, there is no attention-based task a machine can beat a human at barring chance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"corona-wrapper neural-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div class=\"neural-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"neural-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/companies\/neural-newsletter_header.gif\"\/><\/div>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/companies\/neural-newsletter_header.gif\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"neural-cta-input\">\n<h2 class=\"neural-cta-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Greetings_humanoids\"><\/span>Greetings humanoids<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"neural-cta-tagline\">Subscribe now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories<\/p>\n<p><!--[if lte IE 8]><![endif]--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let\u2019s use computer vision as an example. You can train an AI model to recognize images of cats. If you have 10 million images and you need to know <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roximately how many of those have cats in them, the AI should be able to do in seconds what would take humans many years to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you took 100 school-aged children and had them look at 100 images to determine which images had cats, no neural network in existence today could consistently outperform the children.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_tradeoff\"><\/span>The tradeoff<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In this particular task, we can point to the fact that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/252464222\/AI-struggles-with-data-silos-and-executive-misconceptions\">AI struggles to identify subjects<\/a> when the subject isn\u2019t posed in a typical pattern. So, for example, if you dressed a cat up like a clown, the average child would still understand that it\u2019s a cat, but an AI that wasn\u2019t trained on cats dressed up like other things might struggle or fail at the task.<\/p>\n<p>The tradeoff we\u2019re talking about, when you sacrifice accuracy for speed, is at the crux of the problem with bias in AI.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine there were a statistically significant number of images in our deck of 10 million that depicted cats dressed like clowns and the model we were using struggled with costumed felines.<\/p>\n<p>The cats-dressed-as-clowns might be in the minority of cat images, but they\u2019re still cats.<\/p>\n<p>This means, unless the model is particularly robust against clownery, the entire population of cats dressed like clowns is likely to be omitted from the AI\u2019s count.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it would be trivial to train an AI to recognize cats dressed as clowns. But then there\u2019ll be another edge-case you\u2019ll have to train the AI for, and one after that.<\/p>\n<p>A human child doesn\u2019t suffer from the same problem. You can dress a cat up any way you want, and as long as you haven\u2019t occluded the cat\u2019s identifying features, the kid\u2019s going to understand it\u2019s a cat in a costume.<\/p>\n<p>This problem, at scale, is exactly why driverless cars are still not available outside of well-regulated tests.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Machine_superiority\"><\/span>Machine superiority<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Machine superiority could be described as a paradigm in which computers know what\u2019s best for humans and have the ability to control us through non-violent means.<\/p>\n<p>If legions of killer robots suddenly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> back in time to subjugate us with laser guns, that\u2019s a different kind of superiority \u2014 one that\u2019s beyond the scope of this non-fiction article.<\/p>\n<p>The big idea behind machine superiority is that one day, we\u2019ll create an AI that\u2019s so intelligent it surpasses humans in its ability to reason, plan, and adapt.<\/p>\n<p>The reason it\u2019s such an attractive concept is two-fold:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It imagines a future where humans have finally solved all the world\u2019s problems\u2026 by inventing a magic box to solve them for us.<\/li>\n<li>We can tell scary \u201cwhat if\u201d stories about what would happen if the magic box was evil.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But currently, there exists no machine that can outperform a typical human at any given task, with the exceptions of digital speed and chance.<\/p>\n<p>When humans and machines are given a task that involves occluded information \u2014 for example, playing chess or determining whether someone is a democrat or republican by looking at a picture of their face \u2014 the ability to predict the next segment in a linear output can often trump intelligence.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tools_of_the_trade\"><\/span>Tools of the trade<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I mean: it doesn\u2019t take intelligence for DeepMind to beat humans at chance or Go, it takes a strict adherence to probability and the ability to predict the next move. A human can look at a chess board and imagine X amount of moves in a given amount of time. An AI can imagine, theoretically, all the possible moves in a given amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean the AI isn\u2019t one of the most incredible feats of computer <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> humanity has ever pulled off, it just means that it doesn\u2019t have a superhuman level of intelligence \u2014 it\u2019s actually nowhere near human-level.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s no human in the world who can look at another person\u2019s face and determine their politics. We can guess, and AI can often guess more accurately than we do. But people\u2019s faces don\u2019t magically change; their politics often do.<\/p>\n<p>A good way to look at artificial intelligence is to think of it as a tool. It\u2019s easier for a human to chop down a tree with an ax than it is without one, but it\u2019s impossible for an ax to do anything without a human. The ax has superhuman resilience and tree-chopping skills, but you wouldn\u2019t call it superhuman.<\/p>\n<p>An AI that can spot cats in images really fast is a good tool to have if you ever need to spot a cat, but it\u2019s not something you\u2019d refer to as superhuman. The same goes for one that can beat us at <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p>Machines are great at certain tasks. But we\u2019re a long ways away from the emergence of a supreme digital being.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to have to figure things out for ourselves, at least for the time being. 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