Robots have been widely used in industrial manufacturing, commercial and even medical, but you should have never heard of robots can be applied in the political forest field! Today, Xiaobian introduces you to a robot Nigel, which uses an intelligent approach and gives him independent thinking, in order to better understand the user's ideas and then give users suggestions for voting.
The founders of a new artificial intelligence project hope that one day they can save democracy. Are we ready for robotic takeover politics?
"Siri, who should I vote for?"
"This is a very personal decision."
Apple's "personal assistant" Siri does not do politics. It has ordinary, non-commitative answers to anything that sounds controversial. In fact, Siri's answer is exactly the same as some politicians. But the next generation of digital assistants is powered by improvements in artificial intelligence (AI), so their answers may be less conservative.
A company in Portland, Oregon has developed a software designed to advise on all aspects of user life, including voting. Nigel's founder Mounir Shita said: "We hope that you can trust Nigel. We hope that Nigel knows who you are and serves you in your daily life. Nigel tries to find out what your goal is and what you are in reality. By combining these two aspects of understanding to achieve your goals. Therefore, Nigel can be said to constantly push you in the right direction."
Kimera Systems' Shita claims to have cracked "general performance of artificial intelligence" - the secret of independent thinking - a thing that AI researchers have overlooked over the past 60 years.
Most AIs at this stage are learning how to perform specific tasks, but Nigel is not. It can be freely programmed according to user behavior without having to monitor their electronic devices.
Shita said: "I hope that Nigel will eventually learn enough to help you in political discussions and elections."
However, Nigel has received some doubts in the scientific community. To date, Nigel's achievements have been limited – Nigel has learned to turn a user's smartphone into a silent mode in the cinema without obeying the user's request by observing the user's behavior.
However, Shita is convinced that his algorithm is more dominant on another AI, another AI technology developed by the larger Silicon Valley player, the enhanced digital assistant, who has met Nigel in political careers. Potential pitfalls provide legal advice.
He said: "For Nigel, our goal is that by this time next year, Nigel will be able to achieve primary school literacy. Although Nigel has not yet achieved the ability to participate in politics, but this is our goal."
AI is already part of the political world - in elections, AI is using more sophisticated algorithms to process votes. The research team is also scrambling to study an algorithm that can stop the spread of "fake news." Pastor Shita believes that this algorithm is conducive to democracy and will make it difficult for a politician to blind the eyes of voters. “Because AI can handle a lot of information, it is very difficult to brainwash AI. AI can tell potential voters that politicians are talking about lies or what they say is difficult to achieve.â€
But how do you let humans listen to the advice of robots?
More and more voters are supporting "machine election politicians", such as the most famous Farag in British politics, and his friend Donald Trump. But how does artificial intelligence Nigel compete as it does?
Shita explained that you have to learn to believe in Nigel. Nigel knows your emotions better than the political leaders you only see on TV. Although the robot Nigel does not necessarily change the outcome of the referendum, it can at least help British voters make more informed decisions about Brexit.
The whole purpose of Nigel is to figure out who you are, what your opinion is, and then adopt them. According to Nigel's algorithm, if things don't look right, he may prompt you to change your mind. "I give an extreme example. If you are a racist, Nigel will become a racist. If you are a left-leaning liberal, Nigel will become a left-leaning liberal." Shita added, "Every Individuals have their own Nigel, and every goal of Nigel is adapting to your point of view, and there is no political conspiracy behind it."
Ian Goldin, professor of globalization and development at Oxford University, also believes that AI can play a role in uncovering political motives and lies. But he is worried that politicians have not realized what it means to work for the future of society or for itself.
In his book Discovery: Exploring the Risks and Rewards of the New Renaissance, Ian Goldin and co-author Chris Kutarna want to strike a balance between the robot-controlled worldview and the Silicon Valley elite's technological dreams.
Goldin told the BBC News: "I think the threat posed by technology is growing. In some ways, people will be worried about it. But politicians will certainly not talk about it."
Goldin believes that they should not consider machine learning as a distant science fiction novel, but should "organize" the content to see how it changes the political and social landscape. He pointed out that in a research report of the Oxford Martin Technology and Employment Program, Donald Trump won the US election but owed the voters because those voters lost their jobs because of automation.
In the world of machine learning, innovation is changing with each passing day, so the speed of change is accelerating. This means two things. First, people will be forgotten faster, so inequality increases. Second, you must update fiber, infrastructure, energy systems, housing, mobility and flexibility faster.
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Electric, has warned that the catastrophic consequences of unregulated AI are at most misleading for humans.
However, Shita does not seem to be very worried about the world in which a machine does all the work. He explained: "I don't want people to sit on the sofa and eat potato chips because they have nothing to do. Instead, they want people to liberate themselves from physical labor and do things of interest."
But Ian Goldin is not optimistic about the future of AI enhancement. He said that according to a recent study of the highly educated white-earned class in the United States, those who are idle because the machine has done all the work are more likely to drink or commit suicide than to pursue a healthy and active life.
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