“Artificial intelligence is also playing a significant role in the medical field.
A machine that automatically diagnoses diabetic retinopathy, which previously required a two-hour examination by an ophthalmologist with 20 years of experience, has received FDA approval and is now in the field.
This disease can lead to blindness, and more than 400 million people worldwide are at risk, but in developing countries, there is a shortage of trained ophthalmologists, so many people do not receive timely treatment.
The diagnostic system analyzes images of the patient's eye to 'instantly' determine whether retinopathy is present.
Diagnosing diseases that required considerable expertise has become possible with the same effort as stepping on a scale.
In early 2020, a study reported that artificial intelligence was superior to well-trained radiologists in analyzing radiological images to detect breast cancer.
The work that doctors used to do is gradually being replaced by artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence researchers predict that 80% of doctors' work will be automated within 10 years.”

“Let’s look at the role of artificial intelligence in agriculture.
Spraying herbicides and fertilizers on large farms is a labor-intensive and painful task.
However, we cannot indiscriminately spray herbicides and fertilizers on weeds and crops.
Weeds need to be sprayed with herbicide, and crops need to be sprayed with fertilizer.
Artificial intelligence has automated this task.
Artificial intelligence 'reports' and sprays.
The artificial intelligence accurately recognized each weed and crop by learning from a database of weeds and crops.
“It is said that the introduction of this type of artificial intelligence has reduced the use of environmentally harmful herbicides by 90%.”

“The field of art cannot avoid artificial intelligence either.
Artificial intelligence creates works of art.
A work of art must be original.
However, even if it is original, if it stands out too much and causes rejection, it cannot be considered a good work of art.
Artificial intelligence also adopts this strategy.
By studying numerous works, you learn the patterns of the works, and by making slight changes to them, you create new works.
If you give a landscape photo to an AI that has learned Van Gogh's painting style and ask it to transform it into Van Gogh's style, it will create it in an instant.
“One of the works created this way, a French-style portrait, was sold for 500 million won at an auction in New York.”

“When given a topic, AI can create a story related to it, and the content is plausible.
OpenAI, a company founded with private investment to research and publicize general artificial intelligence, has developed an AI program called GPT-3. GPT-3 can generate plausible sentences following a given sentence.
It is said that it learned from a massive sentence of 45 terabytes.
As a result, he surprised many people by demonstrating his ability to write beautiful essays.
“If you throw me a verse from Shakespeare, I’ll take it and write a poem in his style.”

“Deepfake, a publicly available technology, can replace the face of a video subject with the face of a person of your choice.
This technology was used to create a video of President Obama making an outrageous statement.
Also, a fake video of House Speaker Pelosi, a political opponent of Trump, talking nonsense after drinking was created and circulated on social media.
A domestic company even created a fake video of President Moon Jae-in saying, "AI is important."

“A lifelike two-dimensional avatar leads the conversation with natural body movements.
These avatars are sometimes called digital humans.
Avatars use conversational and visual features to engage customers in personalized interactions.
Grow into a unique avatar by accumulating experience and learning new knowledge.
Avatars with specific knowledge are also leased to companies to be used for customer service, etc.
I think the most successful digital human right now is Amelia.
Amelia, who has been hired by several global companies, works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year without eating or sleeping, receiving a monthly salary of only $1,800.
He handles twelve tasks, including call center work and accounting, and is fluent in 20 languages, including English and French.
She also has the ability to memorize reports that are hundreds of pages long in just a few minutes, which is said to be a source of high satisfaction for the companies that employ her.”

The ethical issues facing self-driving cars when faced with dilemmas are complex. MIT is conducting the Moral Machine project to study the ethical operation of self-driving cars.
This project investigates the public's ethical perceptions about the actions that autonomous vehicles should take in emergencies.
Let's look at one example used in this project.
A self-driving car carrying three passengers encounters an unavoidable obstacle.
There are only two choices.
This is the case when the driver suddenly turns the steering wheel and kills three innocent people crossing the street to protect the passengers, or collides with an obstacle and injures three passengers.
Which case is more ethical? Most people would say the latter.
Passengers are simply trying to get around quickly and end up in an accident, but why should innocent people crossing the street be killed? The latter is clearly more ethical, but will such a product be accepted in the market? Consumers, being selfish, will avoid purchasing such vehicles.
What if there was only one person crossing the street? Wouldn't it be more ethical from a utilitarian perspective to sacrifice one person to save three? What if the three people crossing the street were running a red light? What if the passengers were boys and the other people crossing were elderly? The possibilities are endless.
In all these situations, one wonders whether it is possible to algorithmically predict the ethical behavior of autonomous vehicles.”

“If we connect the capabilities of powerful artificial intelligence with the human brain, humans will become omnipotent.
It may sound like a dream from a science fiction movie, but the reality of this technology is gradually getting closer.
In his book, The Singularity is Near, futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that a "hybrid brain" combining humans and artificial intelligence will become a reality after 2030.
The technology that aims to connect computers and the brain is called BCI.
This effort aims to enhance human capabilities by directly connecting the human brain and a computer, interpreting and utilizing neural signals in real time, or inputting and modifying external information. BCI technology enables direct communication between the brain and computers.
Therefore, it can process large amounts of information faster than reading with your eyes or writing with your hands.
Also, if the brain is connected to just one computer, all the information and knowledge in the world can be used.
With the help of artificial intelligence spread across the world, we will also have powerful judgment abilities.
“It is to become an omnipotent person.”

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