Artificial Intelligence VS Robotics

'we know AI is coming in, helping us with Netflix recommendations and our Spotify playlists, but what about robots and the takeover of the world... cybernetic organisms?' - Aveea

What exactly IS A.I. and Robotics?!

It's the two legends, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy that birthed the Artificial Intelligence Project in the 1950s. However, more modern computer scientists who are creatives of 'machine learning' (see What is Machine Learning?) such as Francois Chollet, has adapted their original idea from Minsky and McCarthy and stated that "Intelligence is not skill itself, it's not what you can do, it's how well and how efficiently you can learn new things."

Watch Aveea's video (displayed on the left) to get a intricately detailed explanation as they home in on the differences and correlations of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

Machine Learning

So what is machine learning? The use and development of computer systems that are able to learn and adapt without following explicit instructions, by using algorithms and statistical models to analyse and draw inferences from patterns in data. Machine learning is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence.

AIs hitting the spotlight on T.V.

'Pepper is a humanoid robot companion designed be sort of a kiosk at businesses like shopping malls, hospitals, and doctors' offices. Pepper is also able to track eye contact and express emotion. We spent a little time with Pepper and got its thoughts on how it helps people, Paris, robot uprisings, and tacos' - Tech Insider

Meet Pepper, the world’s first humanoid with an emotion engine

Pepper is SoftBank's adorable, 4ft humanoid, 'optimized for engaging with people through conversation and the touch screen'. Pepper is capable of skills such as recognising faces, eye contact, human emotions, to inform and entertain people in an innovative way. Steve Kovach on Tech Insider had the privilege of interviewing Peppa as they show off their assistance skills and witty humour.

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Featured Articles

Take a look at some articles that will answer all of your curious Q's!
What's the Difference Between Robotics and Artificial Intelligence?
Alex Owen-Hill 11-03, 2020

Is robotics part of AI? Is AI part of robotics? What is the difference between the two terms? We answer this fundamental question.

Is artificial intelligence the biggest threat to jobs?
Bernard Marr 19-12-2014

The HAL 9000 wants your job. OK, it’s not the HAL 9000 (yet) but all over the world, intelligent machines are replacing jobs at an alarming rate.

10 Humanoid Robots of 2020
Daria Merkusheva 25-03-2020

Robots come in many shapes and sizes. But, perhaps, the most intriguing, endearing, and acceptable are the ones that resemble us, humans.

Robotics, A.I will create 58 million jobs
Internet of Business 08-04, 2018

A new WEF report, The Future of Jobs 2018, says that 75 million jobs will be displaced by artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and automation, but suggests that 133 million new jobs may be created as organisations shift the balance between human workers and machines: a net gain of 58 million.

How artificial intelligence will be used in 2021
Kirsten Korosec 31-12-2020

Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang doesn’t need a crystal ball to see where artificial intelligence will be used in the future. He just looks at his customer list.

2020 will change the way we look at robotics
Brian Heater 30-12-2020

From logistics to food prep, robots are custom built to help mankind survive a pandemic

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Benefits of AI and Robotics

  • Smart Decision Making
    Artificial Intelligence and Robotics is the most efficient form for making unbiased and quantitative business decisions. Unemotional AI technology can collate information such as data delivery, analysing trends and analytics and so much more!
  • Medical Advances
     AI has the ability to monitor the progression of contagious diseases and even predict their future effects and outcomes! Especially handy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Robotics is also incorporated in ligament transplants and replacements for people with physical disabilities.
  • Managing repetitive tasks
    Manufacturers' production rate has skyrocketed due to the increase in mechanical technology to aid in completing repetitive tasks in place of paying for humans to do the same thing at a slower rate! 
  • Safety 
    Say goodbye to the fear of loosing a finger when machinery and take the safety precaution for you! A.I. and Robotics and quantify the measurements and complete risky tasks in place of our fingers and thumbs.
  • Creating more jobs
    Worried that Artificial Intelligence and Robotics were snatching away our careers? Robots need people for monitoring and supervision. The more robots we need, the more people we’ll need to build those robots.
32 Examples of Ai, Robotics & Healthcare

'Whether it's used to find new links between genetic codes or to drive surgery-assisting robots, artificial intelligence is reinventing — and reinvigorating — modern healthcare through machines that can predict, comprehend, learn and act.'

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Concerns and dangers of AI and Robotics...

  • People are loosing their jobs
    With every advantage, comes a disadvantage. Although it gives the capitalist system efficiency, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence also takes away many jobs such as customer service and factory vacancies.
  • They need constant power
    May be more reliable, but definitely come with a cost...literally. The cost of expenses to retain the electricity for these machines are an understatement of pricey!
  • They lead to an increase in cyber-security issues
    There is now a open space for potential hacks, ransomware, and identity theft which could consequently  lead to ethical problems.
  • Humanity may become lazy and overdependent
    The Disney film, WALL-E may have been onto something when it presented humanity becoming unhealthily unfit and reliant on robotics. Could this be foreshadowing our future?...
  • Artificial Intelligence lacks creativity
    Due to their objective 'nature', they are unable to produce new and authentic ideas as they don't (as of yet) have the ability to produce true emotions

Scientists raising their concerns over the progression of AIs and what future lies ahead...

Elon Musk says DeepMind is his ‘top concern’ when it comes to A.I.
Sam Shead 29-07-2020

'Just the nature of the AI that they’re building is one that crushes all humans at all games,” Musk told The New York Times in an interview published on Saturday. “I mean, it’s basically the plotline in ‘War Games.' Read more..

Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
Rory Cellan-Jones 02-12-2014

'Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence. He told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."' Read more..

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“[AI] is going to change the world more than anything in the history of mankind. More than electricity.” - Computer Scientist, D. Kai Fu Lee (2018)


AI, Robotics and our future

It is undeniable that Artificial intelligence and Robotics is continuing to  impact the future from an economic, virtual and social perspective in every industry. Artificial intelligence and Robotics has swiftly become the main product of emerging technologies such as quantifying data, business analytics,  IoT (Internet of Things) etc. This will only increase and continue to act as a "technological innovator for the foreseeable future". See more here

Pros of AI and Robotics

> available to work 24/7
> able to make unbiased, quantitative decision making- without emotional bias getting in the way
> can work in risky situations 

Cons of Robotics

> expansive to repair and/or replace
> costly to maintain running even just a singular machine- let alone multiple e.g. electricity costs
> machines lack a creative thought process and are tied to thinking 'inside the box'

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