The future of artificial intelligence research is being predicted using artificial intelligence models. Thankfully, none of them claim that an AI apocalypse is coming.
Artificial Intelligence 'Accurately' Predicts Own Future
To analyze the 143,000 publications posted on the arXiv preprint server between 1994 and 2021, Mario Krenn and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, trained an AI model.
Based on the scientific research it was aware of, the AI was asked to forecast how artificial intelligence would evolve over time.
The Sun said scientists wanted to know more about the real future after the software's forecasts were nearly entirely accurate.
Along with collaborators from all across the world, Mario Krenn oversaw the study.
According to their research initially published in arxiv.org, AI research shows tremendous promise that can be realized.
The researchers want to ask AI scientific questions that could help with future studies rather than asking it to foretell the world's end.
In the future, it is hoped that AI can support human scientists in their studies.
The researchers concluded that more sophisticated research suggestion tools will be essential in providing better forecasts of potential future research areas.
Is Pentagon Using AI To Predict Future Too?
According to CNet in 2021, the Pentagon is reportedly using AI to predict events days into the future.
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command, in the same CNet report, spoke about the most recent findings of the Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE).
This so-called cross-command exercise included participants from all 11 combatant commands in the US Department of Defense.
Although the Pentagon hasn't provided many specifics on what GIDE entails, VanHerck said it most definitely does not feature precogs soaking in eerie opaque white liquids.
The goal appears to combine data with machine learning and other artificial intelligence techniques to achieve a substantial informational advantage that will allow for the proactive strategy VanHerck proposes.
The AI may issue an alert requesting that someone carefully examine satellite imagery of the region for suspicious behavior if it saw specific changes of interest in that parking lot.
VanHerck stressed that the system uses a novel method of leveraging technology to process vast amounts of data rather than brand-new technology per se.
VanHerck adds that there may be days' worth of notice as a result.
VanHerck made it a point to emphasize that "humans still make all the decisions" in response to worries that this scenario would start to sound a little less precog and a bit more like Skynet.
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