ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VERSUS HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

Context

• Recently, Kerala police inducted a robot for police work.
• Similarly, Chennai got its second robot-themed restaurant, where robots not only serve as waiters but also interact with customers in English and Tamil.
• In Ahmedabad, in December 2018, a cardiologist performed the world’s first in-human telerobotic coronary intervention on a patient nearly 32 km away.

All these examples symbolise the arrival of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our everyday lives. AI has several positive applications, as seen in these examples. But the capability of AI systems to learn from experience and to perform autonomously for humans makes AI the most disruptive and self-transformative technology of the 21^st century.

                                                                                                                                                     (The Hindu)