Spoiler Alert: Artificial Intelligence Can Predict How Scenes Will Play Out


Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already helping scientists form testable hypotheses that enable experts to run real experiments, and the technology may soon be poised to help businesses make decisions, one scientist says.

However, that doesn’t mean the machines will be taking overĀ from humans entirely. Instead, humans and machines have complementary skill sets, so AI could help researchers with the work they already do, Laura Haas, a computer scientist and director of the IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab in San Jose, California, said here Wednesday (Dec. 7) at the Future Technologies Conference.

“The machine will come to be a strong partner to humans,” akin to the android Data on the TV series “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Haas said.

Though many people fear a future where our robot overlords surpass humans in almost every capacity, in reality, machines have long outpaced mere mortals at many tasks, such as doing incredibly fast mathematical computations. But this dominance is nowhere clearer than in the realm of Big Data.

“Global scientific output doubles every nine years; 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone; 2.5 exabytes of data are created every day,” Haas said.

In the competition between man and machine, computers are the undisputed winners at processing and assimilating all this information, Haas said.

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