| |May 20209There is a lot that we can do with artificial intelligence to improve the world.Q: What is the future of AI?A: It would be good if we used the technology more responsibly. In other words, we should treat it like a util-ity, like a tool. We should put as much effort into devel-oping the technology as necessary, rather than worrying that it's going to harm us and destroy our lives.Q: How worried do you think we humans should be that ¬machines will take our jobs?A: It depends what role machine intelligence will play. Machine intelligence in some cases will be useful for solving problems, such as translation. But in other cases, such as in finance or medicine, it will replace people.Q: Thank you very much for talking to us.A: You are welcome.ACT-2: Mixed Reality AI In July 2019, Julia White, the CVP of Azure Marketing, unveiled this technology in a demonstration at the Mi-crosoft Inspire 2019 Conference that discussed in detail the company's vision for the coming year. The Azure AI hologram simply creates a digital avatar of person and lets them speak in the speaker's voice in another language. Technologies like Azure AI and neural text-to-speech were used to make this possible. To get the speaker's voice and intonation right, multiple recordings of the speaker's voice were used to make a personalized voice signature. This is how the technology was able to translate the entire speech from English to Japanese, in her voice!A life-size hologram of a person, the translation of speech from one language to another and rendering it in the person's voice ­ these are the essential features that make this mixed reality technology undeniably game-changing! This is nearest to `Teleporting': as depicted in science fiction stories. But then, huge inroads are being made by this technology in the areas of Healthcare, Dis-aster Relief, Law enforcements and others.ACT-3 : Hard AIIn 2009, Google started its project on Self Driving Cars, or autonomous vehicles, later named as Waymo owned by Google's parent Alphabet. In 2015, Google provided `the world's first fully driverless ride on public roads' to a blind friend of principal engineer Nathaniel Fairfield. The ride was taken by Steve Mahan, former CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center, Austin TX. It was the first driverless ride that was on a public road and was not accompanied by a test driver or police escort. The car had no steering wheel or floor pedals. As of September 12, 2018, Waymo was waiting on permits to test the cars in California, hoping to test in Los Altos, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. On October 30, 2018, the California Department of Motor Vehicles issued a permit for Waymo to operate fully driverless cars (i.e., cars without human safety driv-ers). Waymo was the first company to receive such a per-mit, which allows day and night testing on public roads & highways, in California. In July 2019, Waymo was given permission by California regulators to transport passengers in its vehicles. Act-4 : Quantum ComputingOn 23 October 2019, Google Brain (Google AI), in partnership with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, officially claimed that its Syca-Abhijit Dasgupta, Director
< Page 8 | Page 10 >