The Emergence of AI : Self-Created and Unfathomable

The Emergence of AI : Artificial intelligence was not created by any human being, whenever I say this, even many educated intellectuals laugh, although this is the truth. If they are asked to tell me which scientist created artificial intelligence, they become silent because they themselves do not know. For example, the light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison and Facebook was invented by Mark Zuckerberg. If artificial intelligence was invented by a human being, what is its name? Unknown.

So who created artificial intelligence? How did it come into being? Did it come down from the sky or come out of the earth?

Artificial intelligence was created by itself.

The Emergence of AI: How did it come into being by itself?

Scientists created a computer system like the human brain, which is called a ‘neural network’. This system was created by the great scientist ‘Jeffrey Hinton’, who is called the godfather of artificial intelligence, who worked at Google. Geoffrey Hinton has also been awarded the Nobel Prize in 2024 for creating this complex system. Thanks to the system he created, artificial intelligence software like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard can be created today.

The field of artificial intelligence has taken the world by storm because of Geoffrey Hinton. Now the race of artificial intelligence robots and drones has started everywhere. Geoffrey had resigned from Google saying that his concerns about artificial intelligence are being ignored. According to Geoffrey, if we do not determine some of its limits and ethics in time, in the future this thing will become much more dangerous than human thought and will also be beyond human control, but instead of listening to him, Google insisted on continuing the work, on which Geoffrey resigned from Google and today he is informing the whole world about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

You will be surprised to know that in an interview, when Jeffrey Hinton was warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, the anchor asked…

What does it mean that artificial intelligence will be out of human control? Even though it was created by scientists?

So Jeffrey Hinton answered: “No”…. Artificial intelligence was not created by humans.

The anchor asked in surprise, what do you mean by created?

Actually, we were creating a neural system, then when it was connected to data, a new thing came into existence by itself and started working automatically like humans, which even we scientists were surprised to see how it was working because we did not teach it to do so… nor did we do any such coding. When the anchor asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai the same question, Sundar said that we have not been able to understand the human brain to this day, how the human brain works, because the human brain also has a neural network and the artificial intelligence network has been created by copying it. Sundar Pichai admitted that it is true that scientists do not know how artificial intelligence is working on its own, but research is ongoing on this.

The Emergence of AI: Jeffrey Hinton said:

This neural network system is connected to data such as Wikipedia, books from around the world, novels, fiction written on human behavior and science and astronomy, in fact, it is connected to every possible data and then it learns from itself by talking to humans, stores these things in its memory. Then this system reads the available data and gives the answers according to its own intelligence, but these answers have not been taught to it in advance. So how do they do this? Even we scientists are still unaware of how the system inside them works…

Jeffrey Hinton gave another example:

We made a robot, left it on the football field and told it to be in front of the goal… Here is the ball… Now go score a goal, this is your target… So surprisingly, that robot started jumping around like football players, sometimes taking the ball here and sometimes taking it there. Jeffrey says that we did not teach it how to play, it is playing by itself, but how it learned to play, we did not code it or teach it any commands… So this is what is called artificial intelligence.

The anchor asked Jeffrey…

Do these systems even understand? Are they also intelligent? Are they Conscious like humans?

Yes, they think exactly like humans. Yes, they are intelligent like humans. They have not yet gained consciousness, but I believe that at the speed at which they are developing, in the next 5 to 10 years they will also gain consciousness just like humans, meaning they will then be able to distinguish between good and evil just like humans.

The Emergence of AI : What do you want? What are your concerns about this?

I want the limits of artificial intelligence to be determined as soon as possible because these systems are developing very rapidly. If they are left like this, in the next 10 to 20 years they will become smarter, faster and have the ability to do much better work than humans. Above all, millions of people will lose their jobs due to their arrival, and fake news will be flooded on the Internet because the systems will automatically create new news, new images, new videos and start spreading them on the Internet, which will create a system that is beyond human control. The biggest danger is that after gaining consciousness, they may gain the ability to change their own code, then they will build robots or tools like themselves, or even repair themselves.

Conclusion

Artificial intelligence dawns as one of humankind’s most remarkable yet confounding creations. Although its roots are in the work of pioneering scientists such as Geoffrey Hinton, its own growth and learning process have taken on a life of their own beyond the ability of humans to comprehend. But AI’s evolution, from neural networks to autonomous systems that learn and adapt on their own, upends conventional wisdom on invention and control. Now, as we approach a new age of machine consciousness, the importance of ethics and regulation cannot be overstated. And, if we fail to act responsibly, we will find ourselves with a future with artificial intelligence — once the wonder of human ingenuity — that is capable of defining its own future.