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? Is artificial intelligence a Pandora's box?

In the face of the rise of intelligence, many people are worried and uneasy. This is nothing new. What's more, human beings maintain doubts and defenses even in their own race.

After all, people with feelings and prejudices will do evil, and computers that only make judgments based on rational calculations seem to be "evil", and it is easy to do it.

This makes many people pessimistic about the development of artificial intelligence.

Of course, artificial intelligence is still in the theoretical and preliminary development stage, and people are still focusing on various speculations and worries. But when one day, humans find that artificial intelligence is too "intelligent", and some aspects are almost beyond human understanding. .

Andy believes that human concerns about AI will reach a new level.

And this kind of time will not be too long. After all, the whole world is actively investing in the field of AI, and the field of artificial intelligence will inevitably usher in a big explosion.

And this period of great explosion is precisely due to the development of "machine learning".

Computer programs with powerful computing power can automatically mine and analyze large amounts of data and learn various behavior patterns.

Input and output are no longer controlled by a few variables given by humans, but let the machine analyze the characteristics of a large amount of data and determine the weight of variables. . .

To explain in simpler and straightforward language, for example, it involves the hottest field of artificial intelligence, deep learning, which is jokingly called "modern alchemy" by industry insiders in the entire field of artificial intelligence.

Input all kinds of data to train intelligent programs, and "refined" a bunch of stuff that we don't know why it became like this. . .

The neural network for processing data is usually composed of dozens or hundreds of neurons, and then organized with several layers of logical structure, and the operation process is extremely complicated. The intelligent program sets its own algorithms and weights for itself, and human beings, as developers, cannot fully understand why a certain decision is output in the end.

Would a human trust an "incomprehensible" decision-making object?

The answer is yes.

When Andy decided to invest in the development of AI, he had already reached a consensus with Edward, a technical expert, and imposed certain restrictions and constraints on it, although it was still a few galaxies away from that kind of high-level artificial intelligence.

But since there are seeds of doubt and expectations of application results, there must be constraints and caution. . . This is human!

Artificial intelligence is not so much the ability to think, as it is the machine's reflection and understanding of the existing data in the human world. Will machines inherit the prejudices, impermanence and greed that humans have?

This may be the greatest concern of mankind!

The so-called "intelligent mining" of user data by artificial intelligence is actually very easy to walk on the edge of compliance but violates fairness and morality.

For example, in the simplest example, e-commerce companies can conduct targeted and precise price discrimination against a certain person based on the accumulation of a person's consumption habits and consumption ability data, and after big data analysis and calculation.

To buy the same product, users who use icrazy mobile phones are likely to pay more than users who use Android 1800 yuan, because they are analyzed by big data and tend to be people who are not sensitive to prices. . .

All in all, in the eyes of artificial intelligence aimed at commercial interests, there is no concept of "person" or "user", and everything is data that can be used.

With the assistance of big data and artificial intelligence, through the monitoring of everyone and the extraction of information, the capital is maximized.

This is also the main reason why the entire artificial intelligence industry has an ambiguous attitude towards all data collection and the like.

After all, AI is one of the most popular and fastest-growing businesses in the future, and the interest cake involved is too big and too tempting.

What's more, as Andy thinks, the current technology is far from real artificial intelligence, and the impact on social ethics is even less. The so-called AI is nothing more than tedious and repetitive labor. Just get out.

After that, Andy took Ivana to the security center, met Heer Guo, and learned about the operation status and development progress of the cloud shield.

At this time, Yundun has started to provide services to the outside world, and it has also begun to make profits. In order to seize the market, Andy moved the method of the Celestial Dynasty, and launched a free and simple download version with advertisements, which is completely different from paid individuals. edition and enterprise edition.

In addition to grabbing the market, the free version mainly plays the role of receipt data. After all, the development of Yundun is inseparable from the massive virus database, and these data are nothing in personal opinion, but it is a very large amount of money for enterprises. wealth.

At the end of the day, the happiest person is Ivana. As the hostess, accompanied by Andy, she inspected the most curious and mysterious part of all her assets.

When the two took a helicopter and returned to the mansion, Andy received a call from his grandfather, Old Smith. On the phone, Old Smith told Andy that the Fed was about to launch a series of major measures aimed at adjusting the focus of policy.

While keeping the federal funds rate at a historically low range of zero to 0.25%, it has used trillions of dollars to buy Treasury bonds and mortgage-related bonds.

Among them, the purchase of real estate mortgage bonds and agency bonds totaled 850 billion U.S. dollars, and the purchase of long-term treasury bonds of 300 billion U.S. dollars in the next six months to unfreeze the credit market, inject liquidity, and stimulate economic recovery.

According to the Federal Reserve Act of the United States, during the economic crisis, the Federal Reserve has the power to issue unlimited currency and issue loans to anyone without the approval of Congress.

The Fed's lending program has boosted its assets from $900 billion to $1.8 trillion. The "big deal" to stimulate the economy this time is absolutely unprecedented and can be called crazy.

"They're just crazy!"

Although it had been expected for a long time, the printing of money on this scale also made Andy a little bit powerless to complain.

"This is something that can't be helped. At the moment when the room for interest rate cuts is about to be lost, the Fed can only give full play to the function of a "money printing machine" and inject liquidity into the market to stimulate economic recovery.

Job losses, shrinking stocks and home prices, tight credit are weighing on consumer sentiment and spending, weak sales prospects and difficulty accessing credit are causing businesses to cut inventories and fixed investment, and our trading partners are in recession, causing our exports to plummet. These factors force the Fed to use all means to promote economic growth. "

Hearing his grandfather's explanation, Andy also shook his head and sighed helplessly. To be honest, there is really no other good way. Perhaps only by opening the gates and letting the water out, can the economy be pulled out of the downward spiral.

"Hehe, at least this news will give the stock market more motivation to rebound..."

"Okay, it's good that you know, there's nothing else to do, son, you can become the richest man in the world, grandpa is really happy and proud of you."

Andy hung up Old Smith's phone with a smile, and under Ivana's gaze, he dialed again with his mobile phone.

"Increase the amount to short the dollar!"

The phone call from his grandfather Old Smith was undoubtedly to inform Andy of the news so that he could make preparations in advance, and Andy's think tank had long been shorting the dollar. Now that the news is confirmed, it is natural to increase the amount.

After notifying Alvetrie and hanging up the phone, Andy smiled and said to Ivana beside him: "Gold is about to skyrocket!"

Ivana blinked her big eyes, raised the corners of her mouth, and said with a sweet smile: "The money printing machine is running at full capacity, making dollars quickly, and only gold can preserve its value! In this way, the recovery of real estate may not take too long. "

Andy sighed lightly, and said lightly: "The Fed is actually devaluing the dollar, and what is worrying is that central banks around the world are scrambling to devalue the dollar."