Why did the competing Big Five establish the largest AI alliance in history?

Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are the five giants in the technology world who are familiar with the world today. They are in a competitive relationship with each other in many businesses. In the subversive AI field for the future, the Big Five also has an in-depth layout. , such as Amazon voice assistant Alexa, Google's AlphaGo, IBM's Watson robots and Facebook's artificial intelligence lab, Microsoft Xiaona and so on. Obviously, they will inevitably encounter varying degrees of AI in the field of artificial intelligence. Surprisingly, the Big Five teamed up to establish the most powerful AI alliance in the history without any warning, and tried to lobby the horse. Opensk and Apple participated in the alliance.

Why AI Alliance?

Whether it is search engines, spam filtering, or face recognition, personalized news push, etc., all use artificial intelligence technology. Artificial intelligence has begun to change in the world, and in the future it will further promote traffic (smart driving) and education ( Educational robots, medical (medical robots), home services (domestic robots), public safety (predicted crimes) and other aspects of people's lives have profound implications. It is no exaggeration to say that artificial intelligence will be ubiquitous in the future.

But compared with the huge benefits it brings, there are also considerable concerns about artificial intelligence.

1 Privacy issues

Data is an indispensable material for artificial intelligence. Whether it is entering keywords in search engines, browsing news, or talking to Siri, it will be recorded in the machine to help artificial intelligence better serve humanity. Perhaps these data collections are not enough to attract people's attention today, and when artificial intelligence penetrates into every aspect of daily life in the future, the privacy exposure will be all-weather and continuous. Where people have gone, what they have done, and even their ideas can be digitized. It is not terrible that people lose privacy. It is horrible who controls and who can authorize the use of such data. Who is responsible for data leakage? This is a social problem and it cannot be solved by any technology company alone.

2 unemployment problem

The number of workers in the automated workshop has been greatly reduced, and the use of chat bots has made many customer services unattainable. The application of artificial intelligence has begun to affect many jobs today, with the progress and scale of artificial intelligence technology. In the future, there will be more jobs and more workers facing unemployment. Who will guarantee their lives?

3 Ethical issues

Although artificial intelligence is created by humans, the artificial intelligence in the future will have a high degree of self-awareness. It can even show a highly intelligent life character. It can understand people's needs better than pets and even humans themselves. Then, how should people treat it? Can digital toys that can be discarded at will be another kind of life that needs respect? We must know that even if people are in love with pets every day, it is strictly prohibited in many countries that animals are cruelly abused. In addition to the hardware structure, artificial intelligence that is highly similar to humans should not be protected.

4 security issues

AlphaGo has vividly remembered that he defeated world champion Li Shishi by confrontation with him for months. It can be seen that artificial intelligence has strong self-learning ability. To a certain extent, the artificial intelligence ceiling is unpredictable by humans. It is very likely that it will be out of control; on the other hand, artificial intelligence does not have emotions. What will the evolving artificial intelligence do? No one knows.

Many people from all walks of life, including the best in the scientific community, such as Stephen Hawking and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, expressed concern about artificial intelligence. Governments of all countries are also on the wait-and-see attitude toward artificial intelligence, and they will erase this new thing at any time. This is a few clouds floating over artificial intelligence. The purpose of establishing the AI ​​alliance with the top five giants is precisely to eliminate these doubts and allow artificial intelligence to develop in the sun. A healthy development of artificial intelligence ultimately also benefits developers.