Living in an Artificially Intelligent World

imagesI was reading an article on new research led by the University of Adelaide on the subject of an AI’s ability to predict a patient’s lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs. After taking a deep breath picked up my coffee and started walking thinking about the deeper engagement of AI in human life. While paying for coffee a few minutes ago, I realized that my credit card got misplaced and called the Bank customer service to inform. A bot attended my call and navigated through the issue and without getting a human agent involved, bot blocked my lost card and placed a new one. I am sure it would have simultaneously updated records in the backend with lost and new card information in multiple systems beyond handling customer communications. This is a classic example of automating a standard business process and corresponding workflows. Then I realized ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence) has already made inroads into human daily life.

While contemplating further on AI reach on our lives, reached my home. My ten-year-old daughter approached me handing over the home phone and said, I am holding a call for you and it seems that “bot thingy” is on the line. She was right, it’s an automated calling service from credit fraud services. The bot enquired about the recent loss of my card, security, and privacy related queries. Then transferred the call to a human agent, who confirmed card replacement and started offering adjacent services like fraud protection, started analyzing the credit situation identifying potential needs offering a new credit card that in a way precisely address my requirements. My surprise went to the next level, as AI started traversing deeper in my life routines. Of course, post my last call to the bank, cognitive AI might have picked up from ANI and started advanced analytics on data deriving next level insights and triggering a bot to make a follow-up call. As bot done its preliminary job handing over to the human agent, this cognitive AI started helping him in offering adjacent products the make perfect sense in my scenario. The bot may sooner completely replace human interface. Isn’t it nothing but AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)? A machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can or aid human being in doing so.

Perfect! I walked into the kitchen and got into a dialogue with my wife. We decide to go shopping. She was on her iPhone as we walk through the aisles, and I noticed that an NLP chatbot advising her on retail product recommendations with a greater personalization with rich images and connecting to VR interface enabling product tryout. What an intrusion of AI in every walk of life. This I call it ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence).

Albeit, in a day of life, I traversed with all three phases of AI with increasing degrees of influences on daily routines, needs, and decisions. Going back to the article I read in the morning, I felt humans natural dependency on AI is on a rising path. 

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