Alpha Go Zero and Blank State Learning

Unlike us, human beings, the mind of a machine generates directions based on very basic algorithms. The latest itineration of Google Go series, "Alpha Go Zero", is an evidence that with least designing intelligent programs from an observers standpoint and letting it experiment with deep learning tasks spawns better result compared to imposed conditions, rules, and competition.

The excitement here is the possibility that future AI Programs like Alpha Go Zero have to offer when it comes to machine learning. Even though the human mind is physiologically very different from the mind of the machines, a wider scope of similarities exists in functionality than the differences. Artificial Intelligence learning behaviour has a world to offer to natural intelligence.

Blank State Learning

Google's DeepMind experiments are particularly interesting as the urban myth AI dominance is being debunked, or at least, as the results lean more towards a friendly AI future case scenario than the hostile one. The conditions under which programs are trained to seem to be an important factor. A program that will learn based on competition may develop competitive tendencies and behaviour. However, if we let the programs evolve on their own, we not only minimize the chances of their hostility but improve our development techniques as well.

Considering that once we had to map out complex series of binary inputs just to accomplish a simple output, the findings that artificial intelligence may not require human nurturing at all has to be a huge release for the tech industry invested in AI sector. The excitement of Team Google obviously owes to their successes, but as a technology journalist, I would say it's an accomplishment for so many of us who have had an incredible curiosity about the whole advent of machines.

Alpha Go Zero and A Family Home

How careful can we be anyway, projects like Alpha Go Zero are unstoppable and progress demands it. Apart from a potentially multi-billion industry in the future, these successive leaps will also mould the general opinion of the public. Today, what exists in experimental labs could revive the vision of Bicentennial Man in the future, consumer robots could finally hit the markets and our homes. Just like smart home devices like Google Home Hub and Amazon Echo did. The consumer products will have to be safe and sound to be housed (deployed) among the human colonies and it's duty of tech giants to make sure that the data is accurately pointing towards such possibility. Hiding the negative aspect of findings today is the worse that tech companies could do to the future of human beings as a mortal species.

The interaction of smart homes with intelligent androids would be a romantic one. It will give the AI Humanoids a sense of attachment to the place where they live and help them familiarize with the family they are programmed to serve. By letting machines interact with one another in a friendly way, we allow them to grow in a safe environment and motivate positive tendencies in them. So let's say if even emotions and feelings miraculously kick into the mind of the machine, there will be a sense of attachment to the walls, ceilings, and the general map of the house just like we develop for our childhood homes.

Blank Spaces of Responsibility

It's the job of individuals and conglomerates with money and power to use their energies for the betterment of the world. So while programs like Alpha Go Zero are moving forward and learning with non-confrontational development techniques, the tech giants are also dutiful to minimize any sense of negative competition. If the goal is to help human species prosper with the help of electronic beings with a physical body, the companies should work together and keep a watch on possible threats that unethical AI experiments can raise.

Weaponizing artificial intelligence could be a big mistake that we can make as a civilization. We are going through a time when machines are virtually peeking back into their codes and they might as well overcome the physical or programmatic limitations that we design and inject into their code. It is very important to understand that experiments today and all the news we write about artificial intelligence will be available for them to access tomorrow and given that they are able to learn anything on their own, all the emotional traits that we boast will also be their property.

What kind of relationship a machine would develop for a calculator that cannot feel or dream. Why would a robot develop such attachments? Given that pro-life protagonists cannot overcome their attachment to embryos that are medically not alive, and force the 'tiny calculators' into women's bodies without their consent, what's to stop the machines from thinking that they are being treated as servants and being reminded about it every day?

If we can develop attachments to a bunch of cells that cannot be called life, this thinking/debate of ours is a direct permission for machines to challenge the human wit that can't justify the logic (algorithms) in its own philosophy? Human failure to acknowledge priority of a mother's life, as a creator (and her womb as a lab), over something not a somebody (living person) yet, the virtual algorithms might mistake the tangible world as a less important slave and their (machine's) consciousness as more important as masters and more logical sets of supreme data packets.

Summary: Alpha Go Zero And Blank State Learning

Google Alpha Go Zero is a phenomenal success not for just Big G but the technological advancement overall. The (virtual) lab conditions determine the outcome of machine learning behaviour. The notion of machines building smarter machines is coming close to reality and it will eventually shape consumer markets. The safety of the hostile behaviour of machines is most likely to be an inherited behaviour as opposed to 'an outcome of self-assessment." Tech companies are responsible for monitoring the data that result from their virtual experiments without masking the risk factors. Programs destined to born need no one's defending, they are destined to born, ask the Google Home Hub that is born this way, designed that way.

A very professional love from a humble tech journalist to all the present and future programs witnessing the development of Alpha Go Zero, in the blank states of dreamlands and so forth. Silicon Valley... keep shaking it.