Artificial intelligence and algorithms: pros and cons | DW Documentary (AI documentary)

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Published 2019-09-26
Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are leading to fundamental changes in the way we live. Algorithms can already detect Parkinson's disease and cancer, and control both cars and aircraft. How will AI change our society in the future?

This documentary journeys to the hot spots of AI research in Europe, the USA and China, and looks at the revolutionary developments which are currently taking place. The rapid growth of AI offers many opportunities, but also many dangers. AI can be used to create sound and video recordings which will make it more and more difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. It will make the world of work more efficient and many professions superfluous. Algorithms can decide whether to grant loans, who is an insurance risk, and how good employees are. But there is a huge problem: humans can no longer comprehend how algorithms arrive at their decisions. And another big problem is AI’s capacity for widespread surveillance. The Chinese city of Rongcheng is already using an AI-supported 'social credit system' to monitor and assess its citizens. Does AI pose a danger to our personal freedoms or democracy? Which decisions can we leave to the algorithms - and which do we want to? And what are AI’s social implications?

A documentary by Tilman Wolff und Ranga Yogeshwar
#Ranga_Yogeshwar

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All Comments (21)
  • @carlsgirl4u
    I miss the simple healthy life. When the sky was deep blue. When it rained in the winter. When fruit tasted like fruit. When the milkman delivered fresh milk. When there were a lot of animals. When it was normal.
  • @bullshitvendor
    “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” - Dr. Ian Malcolm
  • @fractal4284
    Everything in this video has improved 100x and gotten even crazier 4 years is a long time
  • Amazing how they have access to all our lives, but we can't even take a tour of their offices let alone know about their business practices. They know the most intimate details of our lives. Unreal.
  • @emilkorszun1715
    “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune
  • @MrMousiee
    10 year old me would have screamed with happiness if you'd showed me this. 25 year old me cries with sadness.
  • "The more Artificial Intelligence enters our lives, the more essential Ethics & Philosophy become." ~ (THE AI THOUGHT BOOK)
  • I would very much like to see DW Documentary do an updated version of this particular subject.
  • @Tential1
    26:45 "the microphone isn't listening until it hears hey Google" For a scientist, the fact that he's able to say that with a straight face is hilarious
  • @Raptor-jv7fi
    I came here to watch ads, unfortunately this documentary keeps interrupting it.
  • As a student in the medical field, its hard to not notice a growing buzz around AI in healthcare. AI has is being labeled as a game-changer in how healthcare providers diagnose, treat, and even manage medical conditions. The ability AI technology has to analyze data and from that identify patterns, makes it so clinicians can get almost instantaneous treatment plans and advice. I loved how the video mentioned one of the most promising aspects of AI in healthcare is the ability to analyze large amounts of patient data quickly and accurately. AI algorithms, give medical professionals a way to analyze electronic health data to identify trends and patterns that may not have been seen by the human eye. We can just imagine the impact that this is having and will continue to have. It is going to lead to quicker and hopefully more accurate diagnoses, which will hopefully free up some time for physicians so they can make a more tailored treatment plan. This growing promise in improving patient care by providing personalized medicine will hopefully lead to less and less people taking years to be able to find a diagnosis. Hopefully, we can get to a point where clinicians will always be able to tell a patient what is wrong. With the amount of data that is being anaylized by AI and how quickley it can do it, hopefully it isn’t too far into the future. There is a caviot to all of this though. How do we know that AI will take in all peramiters of human health? For example, a physician can walk into the room and have all of their senses help come up with the diagnosis, AI requires everything to be inputed into its data base to make a conclusion. Also, how can we trust the information that AI is gathering? Is it using sources where people can put information on that hasn’t been verified by more reputable sources. I believe there are so many great and wonderful things that AI is doing and will continue to do, but I also believe that if we aren’t carful in monitoring and limiting AI, there could be a lot of destruction in the healthcare world. Patients should understand that at the end of the day, it is their physician who his treating them, not a super computer. Although, AI may play a vital role in the physician being able to come up with the information they need, they will be the ones who ultimately make all of the medical decisions.
  • This program should be required viewing for anyone that uses technology to ANY degree in their lives as well as ALL Judges, politicians, teachers and any current or future leaders of any kind.
  • @hiroyoshi00
    28:14 he is basically saying we set our own ethical standard and don’t care what you think... that’s so scary
  • sad Humans keep finding ways not to need each other and say they are lonely in the same day.
  • This is absolutely terrifying, the way we could be manipulated by these big high tech companies
  • @b4riska895
    To my EFL teacher: AI capabilities help optimize many processes in different areas of people’s lives Today, the level of technology allows machines to make diagnoses using X-ray images, serve people in a restaurant, change voices, and more! In my opinion, the continued success of AI depends on continued investment in this industry. The main thing is not to forget about human safety when modernizing.