Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes so popular not only in electronic devices but also in almost every corner of a typical American’s life. From Siri the Apple’s assistant to IBM’s Watson, people now can easily experience life “like a CEO” with their own intelligent assistant just by a purchase of a device. But what does AI’s prevalence have to do with hackers?
In an interview last week with MIT Media Lab director and WIRED Editor-in-Chief, President Obama expressed his concern about the potential of AI being hackers. Indeed, as reported by Wired, he believed that as long as an algorithm/application which is self-learning and –teaching and whose only mission is to get the nuclear codes and learn how to launch missiles is more than enough to create problems. Now, his words became more vivid and noteworthy after reading the newest news (to the moment I’m writing this post) on Google’s AI – DeepMind.
According to the article on TNW, DeepMind is now able to teach and learn on itself. This is a good news, and also a bad one. While such innovation allows us to minimize our programming and interferences on the system, it also means that the influence that AI can have on our life gets complicated (especially from the discussion of President Obama above). But even without this improvement, it might just be the matter of time. AI has been in used in defending the cyber world for a while, but it hasn’t been deployed (or has it?) by cyber criminals.
As security firms, organizations, and even countries have always been worried about AI being able to run a fully autonomous life and eventually replace humans, these two articles clearly raised up another reason on such fear: AI’s now able to hack…
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/obamas-concerned-ai-hack-americas-nukes/
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