Artificial intelligence will enter strongly in 2016, but also with a series of great challenges ahead.
One of the technologies that are set to evolve faster in the future is artificial intelligence. It has been with us for several decades, at first in a primitive way and increasingly in the form of sophisticated systems capable of demanding tasks and even humanoid robots that mimic in some ways the qualities of a person. This is perhaps the most graphic way to see the advances of artificial intelligence.
But the challenges of artificial intelligence go beyond the achievement of a smart and agile humanoid robot. In TechRepublic have asked three experts on the subject about what to expect from 2016. Andrew Moore, Kathleen Richardson and Roman Yampolskiy have given their vision on the near future of this field.
The machine learning or deep learning it is one of the clearest challenges of artificial intelligence. Experts foresee significant growth in this field, which directly concerns the ability of machines to process new stimuli and be able to adapt to new tasks. The more sophisticated this aspect is in the systems the easier they will have to work on their own. Not in vain when we talk about intelligence in the human being it is often said that it is the ability to adapt to the environment.
Internet of things he is another of the big names of the future for artificial intelligence. Creating a network of objects connected to each other and with autonomous capabilities is something that can be done in a basic way, but it is also possible to add more complexity to the system in order to increase its effectiveness.
Replacement of workers on the part of machines that use artificial intelligence will be another of the challenges for next year. And this trend is accentuating in factories, as we can see in China, but also for other types of jobs.
Understanding emotions on the part of robots is also one of the challenges of artificial intelligence. Through cameras and sensors they will be able to know what is the emotional state of a person. Ethical issues they can also not be ignored, especially now that many autonomous machines are going to sneak into the daily life of many people, due to home automation or autonomous cars among other advances.
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