Friday 13 July 2018

The Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Nothing is going to change the way we live our own lives more than the Web of things, artificial intelligence and robotics. While these technology will make life a lot easier and businesses more efficient and profitable there is a huge flip side as well.

This has to do with employment prospects and if some prominent scientists are to be considered artificially intelligent machines might one day turn on their creators and ruin all humankind.The Web of things is anticipated to connect people, data, processes and devices on a massive scale by the end of the decade - a whopping 50 billion connections.

Before one starts fretting about the prospects of humanity being at risk from a take-over by machines, one needs to work out how the opportunities presented by the Web of things are put to optimal use, which in itself will involve some doing.




The biggest existential threat to people will not be from sci-fi movie like scenarios where artificially intelligent robots and machines will rebel against humans, but by the security vulnerability which this mass scale convergence could contribute to. A less than totally equipped system could such as influence on the entire network and lead to devastating consequences on an unparalleled scale.


Considering real artificial intelligence is presently at an infantile stage, it is rather ridiculous to be leaning in end mills once we be worried about the danger it poses to people. Let's know to fully reap the benefits that the Web of things, a few rudimentary artificial intelligence and smartly evolving robotic technologies bring to us.

When the time comes we shall ourselves find the answer to any possible threat in the future. We always have. The industrial revolution, when it came in the twentieth century, evoked similar terror and trepidation, but things worked out more or less fine at the end of it.

There were very serious societal and financial implications of the revolution which had to be overcome until things settled down.In the meantime we will need to prepare our youngsters to deal with these emerging technologies as this can help them find employment in the times ahead.

There will obviously be job losses for a few due to the gain in all around automation, but there will be other chances aplenty for people who expect and prepare for the paradigm change in how businesses and organisation will run their affairs in the times ahead. We are entering very interesting times indeed.

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