A Look At the Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Andre LeBlanc explores the current and future impacts of artificial intelligence on industry, science, and how it will benefit and accelerate human progress.

In the talk below, Andre LeBlanc explores the current and future impacts of artificial intelligence on industry, science, and how it will benefit and accelerate human progress.

While replicating the complete human brain is far too complex for the world's current computational abilities, reverse engineering human behavior  is becoming the new reality according to LeBlanc.

"Eventually basically anything that's done on a computer will be able to be emulated," states LeBlanc. "Eventually these computers will be so intelligent that it will lead to the Singularity, which is what Ray Kurzweil calls it, and that mean that the human race as we know it will become obsolete."

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LeBlanc details how technology has caused major shifts before, such as when we transitioned from an agricultural economy.

Using artificial intelligence to reproduce human logic by monitoring users in real-time and analyzing their trends of behavior is not only realistic, most large companies are already mining data on their employee habits on some scale.

Eventually, every device, including cameras will communicate to central servers and will store immense amounts of information to be analyzed to evaluate our performance in real-time.  With enough data, intelligent software agents / advanced robots are not only capable of replacing a good percentage of these people, but they are more consistent, faster, work 24/7, and will cost far less than their human counterparts.

"Eventually these computers will be so intelligent that it will lead to the Singularity, which is what Ray Kurzweil calls it, and that mean that the human race as we know it will become obsolete."

With almost 20 years of business experience, LeBlanc's companies have been creating tools to help automate complex tasks throughout his career. While these tools are considered to be 'narrow AI' (software that acts intelligently but with no capacity to learn/adapt), they were designed only to perform specific tasks and became obsolete over time. Even so, they were very effective at cutting costs / increasing productivity in the short-term for businesses.

In 2009, he started an artificial intelligence project termed 'IQBase' to help create these tools at a faster rate than ever possible before - but also make them adaptable in its environment. LeBlanc now uses the project as the foundation for his company, IQ Evolve. The result is the beginning of a self-organizing neural network that learns independently from its creator, limited only by CPU power and access to data.

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