Just a few years ago, if you had been told that until 2024 you would have a verbal exchange with a computer that seemed almost entirely human, would you have believed it?
So, in your opinion, what will become of AI in ten, twenty or even fifty years?
Of course, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll expect it for sure, but it’s a gamble that many things that seem absolutely improbable today will become part of everyday life.
It is now clear that AI is the marvelous technological breakthrough of our time. And as with other revolutionary technologies (fire, steam, electricity, computing), now that they exist, they will continue to evolve and become more capable.
However, a unique feature of AI is its ability to improve. As AI helps create more complex AI, my progress will increase in tactics never before noticed.
So let’s see where this can take us. Of course, these are just concepts rather than predictions, but it’s fun to speculate. So get ready for an adventure into the amazing, automated, and glorious (or perhaps not so glorious) world of the future.
Futurists expect the evolution of AI to be marked by a number of vital milestones. Each of them will represent a giant leap in the functions of synthetic intelligence, as well as in the demanding situations and dangers it poses. While we can’t know precisely when they’re going to happen, that’s (perhaps) the order in which we can expect them to happen.
AGI stands for synthetic general intelligence and refers to machines that can apply their wisdom and learning abilities to a wide variety of responsibilities. Today, peak AI is “narrow” or “specialized” and designed for specific responsibilities. True generalized AI will have the ability to think, act and behave much closer to how we do in responsibilities that involve creativity and solving complex challenges.
This is the convergence of quantum physics, which deals with debris at the subatomic level, and AI. Quantum computing is now in its infancy, but it can already perform certain computational tasks up to a hundred million times faster than “classical” computing. In the future, it will be possible to use it to force AI algorithms, improving their ability to process massive knowledge sets and solve complex problems such as optimization and cryptography.
This is a long-term hypothetical moment when AI will overtake human intelligence and begin to do so autonomously and exponentially. The effects are difficult to predict, as they could have very different concepts than ours about how they deserve to evolve and what decisions they will make. it deserves to be done.
Most importantly, machines are so complex that they possess self-awareness and enjoy truth in the same way as humans. Of course, this is very philosophical, and some think it will never happen or that we possibly wouldn’t do it. Be able to say it even if you do. After all, insect brains are in many ways more complex than today’s most complicated AI, and we still don’t know whether they are conscious or not. However, if this is the case, it will open a new moral Pandora’s box for society.
Okay, now we have a rough roadmap. Let’s move on to the time device and take a look at what it means for the way we live in the medium to remote future.
in ten years
In 2034, Tom, a 45-year-old man with a family history of central disease, uses an AI fitness assistant implanted under his skin to monitor his important symptoms and nutrient levels, offering early alerts and personalized fitness recommendations based on his genetic composition. Today, physical care has a more preventive nature, helps everyone live a healthier life and, in particular, reduces the social burden of disease.
in twenty years
In 2044, Maria, Tom’s daughter, has just graduated and starts working as a meteorological engineer. Its main task is to mitigate the effect of climate change around the world, and to do so, it relies heavily on the generation of artificial intelligence to monitor. predict and manage environmental conditions. Their work is highly strategic, involving the implementation of AI responses and collaborating with other human professionals to identify future threats and challenges. She doesn’t have to worry about a circle of relatives with a history of core diseases, because thanks to advances in AI and biogeneration, the genetic defect that afflicted her ancestors was known and corrected before she was born.
in fifty years
Carlos is a citizen of a sprawling megalopolis in the year 2074. Everything he does is monitored and analyzed through machines to ensure that it complies with the strict regulations that have become mandatory to maintain public order and ensure compliance with the laws. environmental regulations. Data from surveillance cameras, online activity feeds, and private tracking devices are used to track our energy use, waste generation, and carbon footprint. All of this is analyzed through artificial intelligence algorithms, which then award smart citizen credits that can be spent on rationed food. or permits. Bad citizens threaten to seriously restrict your basic luxuries and freedoms. It’s a dystopian nightmare.
Seventy years from now
Welcome to the post-scarcity economy: the age of plenty. The advances achieved through self-propagating synthetic intelligence have helped solve society’s greatest challenges. Aiko, who will reach adulthood as the twenty-second century approaches, will never delight in poverty or have to receive food, shelter and physical care. Automated production and 3D printing have drastically reduced the burden of generating all the parts we need. AI-managed agriculture ensures that no one goes hungry. Most importantly, you’ll never have to work: robots run industry and the economy, allowing humans to devote their lives to artistic hobbies and recreational activities.
In a hundred years
Nova is one of the first citizens of humanity’s first permanent Martian colony. Intelligent and realistic robots are a component of everyday life, performing hard physical work while acting as private partners and assistants. Through her neural interface, Nova has direct access to difficult AI generation that complements her cognitive abilities, making her much smarter than her ancestors a hundred years ago. It will also live much longer thanks to biogeneration developed through AI researchers, which will increase in particular its life expectancy and almost all disease risks. They are beginning to succeed in the stars, but they already know that they are not the only intelligent entities in the universe.
Well, obviously, all of this would possibly have a closer connection to science fiction than a serious attempt to look forward to the future. But, as I mentioned at the beginning, the maximum of the AI teams we have here in 2024 would not have any more. Like science fiction just a few years ago?
As we move into the future, one thing I can expect with certainty is that the immediate speed of technology-driven substitution will break down the barriers between the fictional and the real. Many ideas that seem far-fetched today will likely be worldly truth to our children or grandchildren. After all, in addition to entertaining us, isn’t it for us the role of a wonderful science fiction to think about the demanding moral and social situations that might await us?
Self-aware robots, immortality powered by artificial intelligence, the end of diseases, inequality and poverty, or a solution to the climate disaster facing our planet. Thanks to AI, all this is possible. And I, for one, can’t wait to find out what happens next.
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