A generative AI that magically transforms text into editable visual designs within 2 minutes

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The lead image was generated using Image Creator by Microsoft Bing. Recently, our team launched Pitch Avatar, an AI presentation assistant, on Product Hunt. This tool complements and expands the capabilities of our main service, ROI4Presenter. We're thrilled that we secured the third spot in the Product of the Day voting. It's a remarkable achievement, especially considering the tool primarily targets businesses. However, we never doubted the potential interest in Pitch Avatar. Online presentations and similar content have become vital for capturing the attention of potential customers. Pitch Avatar incorporates several concepts to simplify working with online content while boosting its effectiveness. It excels in various functions, aiding users in both preparing and delivering presentations seamlessly. Yet, securing a spot among the top five best products of the week in the Artificial Intelligence category mattered even more to us. Such a list on Product Hunt reaffirms that the popularity of AI-related programs is not merely a passing trend but a long-term phenomenon. In a week, about 350 products appear on Product Hunt, and according to our observations, about half of them are products using AI. These programs are evolving into indispensable tools for businesses and society. To illustrate the breadth of modern AI products, let's explore some offerings featured alongside Pitch Avatar in the top day and top week rankings. 1. ClientZen An AI-based feedback analysis service that gathers reviews from multiple sources and performs automatic analysis, assessing customer satisfaction with products or services. This convenient solution is specifically designed for managers who strive to uphold the timeless principle that "the customer is always right." 2. MeBoom.ai An easy-to-use AI-powered avatar generator offering a wide range of styles for mobile devices. While it may initially seem like a playful toy, this tool is much more than meets the eye. It's a valuable resource for individuals who actively engage in social networks and adopt a conceptual approach, allowing them to change avatars to suit different circumstances effortlessly. 3. AIMarketing by Martekings A set of AI solutions, tools, and guides to enhance marketing efficiency and streamline workflows, specifically designed for managers who are avid proponents of all-in-one services. 4. storly.ai An app designed to revolutionize your writing experience. Whether you're facing writer's block or need a creative boost, this app is here to rescue you. With its wide array of AI features and intelligent tips, storly.ai is the perfect assistant for teachers, managers, students, authors, and anyone seeking inspiration. Say goodbye to frozen imagination and unlock your writing potential with this tool. 5. omni.us An AI-powered omnichannel system that revolutionizes the way you create and deliver hyper-personalized content. The platform writes scripts, runs campaigns, and sends messages through various channels, boosting email open rates and enhancing overall campaign performance. Primarily designed for businesses, omni.us proves its versatility by catering to individuals who require a dynamic and constantly evolving lineup of correspondents. 6. Sivi AI AI-based textual description design generator that stands out from the rest. It's not just "another one" in the market; Sivi AI is creating pages,  banners, ads, collages, slides, and more. Streamlines the process of visual's creation and saves time and effort. 7. Argil Automates and optimizes workflows effortlessly, all without the need for coding knowledge. One of the standout features of Argil is its ability to leverage AI training based on user data. Who can benefit from Argil? The answer is simple: everyone. 8. Factual On-Brand AI Writer An AI-powered text generator that, by analysing the information provided to it, including documents, sample emails, posts, links to blogs, and even PDF files, generates content that perfectly embodies the desired brand voice. What have we learned from the launch? The takeaway from our experience is crystal clear: whether it's crafting compelling texts, engaging with clients, or delivering impactful online presentations, the incorporation of AI significantly streamlines processes and enhances overall efficiency. The undeniable necessity of AI has rendered non-adaptive IT products outdated and vulnerable to obsolescence. technologies are pivotal for success in any field of endeavour. They are the cornerstone of success and the driving force behind staying ahead of the curve. They are the catalysts for progress and the critical drivers of gaining a competitive edge. AI

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Do you use AI? AI is everywhere, from customer support bots to digital assistants like Alexa and Siri. AI is a part of our daily lives. So how could it remain away from content writing? AI writing apps have been around for some time now. But it's ChatGPT that has taken the content writing world by storm. So much so that using ChatGPT has become the latest job skill to have after coding. Research states that businesses hiring in recent times look for candidates with ChatGPT experience. 9 out of 10 It has made quite a mark in the industry. But what is ChatGPT, and why is it important for writers? It's time to find out the answers to these questions and more. What Is ChatGPT? Conversation Generated Predictive Text, that's the full form of ChatGPT. It's a natural language processing model that basically comes up with text depending on the context of a conversation. To put it in simple words, it's an AI-powered tool that writes for you when you give it a prompt. And the software is designed in a way with algorithms and machine learning so that the text it comes up with is relevant to the context. Now, this kind of AI-backed writing software was available even before ChatGPT came into the picture. But what made OpenAI's ChatGPT so popular is its free tag. Yep, ChatGPT is free for everyone. Just create an account on the OpenAI website, and log in to start using it. Hence, more and more people who were not able to pay up for Jasper Ai or WriteSonic began working on ChatGPT. Why Did ChatGPT Become So Important For Writers? Having an AI-powered tool at your disposal is a blessing for any writer. It helps in more ways than one. And anyone who has used ChatGPT can tell you that. Because not just content writers but also people with other job profiles are using this tool. From SEO specialists to social media marketers, everyone is utilizing ChatGPT for their work. Studies show that about of professionals use ChatGPT for work without their managers or supervisors even knowing about it. 70% So why is this tool so popular and important for writers? Well, because it has too many positive points, let's look into those- First of all, it's free, without any word limit. The next would be that ChatGPT is an AI with access to a lot of information. It does something called web-scraping, i.e., it literally scrapes the web for relevant information, and then provides you with content accordingly. For example, suppose you want ChatGPT to write a blog on ‘ ’ The AI will just need a prompt, and then it will pull up all the relevant information by itself from the web about tips and tricks for content writers to increase their productivity. Productivity tips for content writers It saves time. Type in the prompt properly, and it will write the content for you in no time. You can use it as many times as you want to regenerate your content if it isn't up to your satisfaction. You may be a blog writer or just a student who needs help with their assignments; ChatGPT is the go-to tool for everyone. You can get ChatGPT to generate any form of written content. Plus, it comes up with topics for you to write about. It does a brainstorming session on its own. Saving you the worry of coming up with topics to write about. Not just topics, ChatGPT has the ability to do keyword research and provide you with a list of relevant keywords for your topics. Give ChatGPT an instruction to present you with keywords for your piece like 'Why Coding is the Future?', and it will scavenge the web for you to come up with a list of keywords like - Web development, Coding education, etc. Proofreading and editing are again something that is made easier with ChatGPT. It will show you the mistakes and typos in your content so you can go back and edit them. As a result, you won't even need another app or person to help you with proofreading. On ChatGPT, you can also edit your commands in between the writing process. You can just click on a particular command and add more details to it or delete that command. And all these benefits are very important for writers. For a writer who needs to type away 6-8 hours a day, these benefits are godsent. And as said before, ChatGPT isn't something that is only used by content writers. Businesses nowadays encourage their employees to make use of AI tools like ChatGPT so that they can get their work done faster and more efficiently. You can work in any field and still use ChatGPT for work. You might be a business analyst who needs to write reports about a certain product or service. ChatGPT can take care of that for you within no time. You just need to add the facts and info, and ChatGPT would spin a report around it. How ChatGPT Can Help Writers Get A Job Just like coding and other technical skills, having knowledge about ChatGPT is considered a job skill nowadays. Why? Because for businesses, saving time, resources, and getting things done efficiently are what matters the most. And that's what ChatGPT does - it increases efficiency, speed, and reduces errors. And any employer would want to hire someone who knows how to use ChatGPT properly. It will help the company increase its work output and reduce mistakes. Again, studies say that about of businesses nowadays look forward to getting employees who have used ChatGPT before. 91% So if you are someone who has worked with the tool, your chances of getting hired are much higher compared to someone who hasn't. Which Industries Are Hiring for ChatGPT Experience Well, as mentioned before, almost all kinds of businesses nowadays value ChatGPT experience over any other skill. Whether sales, marketing, legal, healthcare, or news, all industries are looking for people who can use ChatGPT to get the job done. And in the content writing sector, having knowledge of ChatGPT has become a necessity. Most content writers nowadays use it to write or make their content more interesting and relevant. You can actually use it for coding as well. Yes, just like writing a blog, you can use it to write codes as well. It can write code snippets in different programming languages like Java, Python, C++, etc. And it's very helpful for people who don't know much about coding but need to write pieces of code from time to time. For example, you have a blog that you want to add a subscription form for. Usually, even for such simplest tasks non-coders like me would need help from a coder or friend. But with ChatGPT, you can just enter the basic commands in a programming language, and it will generate the code for you in no time. Suppose you give the command in Python with syntax and parameters, ChatGPT will generate the code snippet for you in Python. For coders also, ChatGPT is a useful app. You can just put an end to typing long codes with a command in ChatGPT. Disadvantages Of ChatGPT ChatGPT may make the writing faster and easier, but it is still not perfect. The writing generated by this software will always require some editing from the writer. It is not 100% accurate and may contain some errors and typos in it. Plus the statistical data that the AI collects may not be up to date. So you need to double-check the accuracy of the data provided by ChatGPT before using it. Also, ChatGPT has a habit of writing generic content. It doesn't provide many facts or info, and neither does it break down complex concepts into simpler terms for better understanding. So you may have to put in more effort from your side to make the content interesting and engaging. Very few, but ChatGPT does have some flaws. That' even if companies or organizations use it, they would still have a human to supervise its results. Ways Writers Can Use ChatGPT Using ChatGPT is no rocket science; it's very easy. There's a typing space at the bottom for your command. You can just type in the instructions like, "Write a copy for job post " along with all the other specifications like tone, word count, etc. Then you just hit enter, and ChatGPT will start working on it for you immediately. But you can do more than that with ChatGPT. Let me tell you about some ways in which you can use ChatGPT other than just for writing. - ChatGPT can’t generate pictures, it can only generate writings. But you can find picture ideas through ChaGPT. For example, suppose you have written a blog around justice and law. And you want to add a picture that represents ‘justice’. Here's where you can use ChatGPT for ideas. Just type in the command "Give me a picture idea for justice", and you'll get some ideas about the kind of pictures that can go with your blog. You might get the picture of a gavel, a courthouse, or a hand holding justice scales. Search for picture ideas - If you’re done with the blog but still lacking an attention-grabbing title, then you can take the help of ChatGPT for that. Just copy-paste your article, and instruct the software to come up with an appropriate title; it will just do that. Generate Title - Using ChatGPT, you cans\ specifically target your chosen audience. For example, if you want your content to be written for medical professionals, you can specify that to ChatGPT, and it will generate content according to their specific needs. Target Your Audience Only - ChatGPT can actually suggest SEO ways for your blog. If you paste your article on the chat section and ask ChatGPT for SEO ideas, it will come up with some useful tips like using some of the phrases that are trending, words to optimize headings, and other ideas that you can use to make your blog more SEO friendly. Ask For Search Engine Optimization Ideas Will ChatGPT Replace Content Writers? A survey carried out by Times Now states about of companies using ChatGPT say that the software has already replaced workers. 48% From this research, it more or less means that ChatGPT is taking over the content writing industry. But this isn't the whole truth. Yes, ChatGPT might be changing the dynamics of content writing and making it easier for writers to get their work done. But it can never replace the writers. Why? Well, because if the writers are gone who will be there to make sense of ChatGPT's output and curate it? You see, ChatGPT is software that follows instructions, and at the end of the day, it's another machine that can't think on its own. No matter how humane it might sound, it still needs humans to interpret its output. Sure, it can generate content for you, but it can't decide on its own. What kind of content should be written? What kind of tone should be used? How to make the content more interesting? What will be the length? What kind of wording will sound better? Only a human can decide the answer to these kinds of questions. You need writers to give direction and meaning to the content. Plus, decide which parts of the content generated by ChatGPT should be used and which ones should be discarded. ChatGPT Is the Future ChatGPT, an AI software, is definitely the future of content writing and is becoming a job requirement for many businesses. Nowadays, if you know how to work on ChatGPT properly, then you will have an upper hand in the job market. Because like coding, AI is also in-demand now, and businesses need workers who can use it to get things done efficiently. ChatGPT is easy to use and can generate content quickly and accurately. Plus, it gives you the freedom to decide how the content should be. It's great software, and if you're a writer, then it's better to know how to use it for your own benefit. You don't need to do a course or anything to use ChatGPT. Just keep experimenting with it, and you'll get a hang of it.

ChatGPT & Content Writers: The Newest Job Skill to Have

Technologically, near-term issues — voice activated earpieces and surveillance capitalism — offer a mixed bag. Political issues bleeding into the future — rise of autocrats and new WMD — are taking a dark, dystopian turn. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Technologically, the near-term future issues Apple said to debut voice-activated Siri AirPods in 2018, water-resistant model in 2019 — “[ T[he fully wireless earbud-style headphones…[will add] ability to activate Siri just by voice, rather than by physically tapping the AirPod in your ear, as [now]…[shifting] to a voice-first interface device…. .” [2019] will add…water-resistance… to protect against ‘splashes of water and rain,’ rather than full submersion https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/apple-said-to-debut-voice-activated-siri-airpods-in-2018-water-resistant-model-in-2019/ _Is the Content Worth the Price?_medium.com Virtual Assistants — Where’s the Beef? Obama isn’t happy with Facebook and Google, either — “Google and Facebook aren’t just…companies — they are ‘public goods’ with a responsibility to serve the public …. ’They’re not just an invisible platform, they’re shaping our culture in powerful ways’…. . [A] duopoly…contributing to a fractured media environment that allowed users to construct alternate realities, without a common set of facts ‘We have to have a serious conversation about, what are the business models, the algorithms, the mechanisms, whereby we can create more of a common conversation. And that can not just be a commercially driven conversation’ …. .” [He] made a point of saying he was opposed to the heavy regulation…[but] comes amid an increasing drumbeat of criticism of Facebook and Google https://www.recode.net/2018/2/27/17057686/barack-obama-facebook-google-speech-mit-sloan-regulation-public-good Congress should close the loophole allowing warrantless digital car searches — “Fourth Amendment…protects individuals from illegal searches…to their digital lives…[so] unless law enforcement [has]…a warrant, the government cannot search a person’s phone or computer**….** [But] as ‘connected cars’ become increasingly linked to people’s digital identities, there is a risk…police will use [an] exception to conduct digital searches without warrants …. [Supreme] court has extended warrant protections to cell phones and vehicle GPS tracking , and…currently reviewing whether law enforcement…should be required to get a warrant to obtain cellphone location information from wireless carriers…. . [Now] law enforcement…can stop and search a vehicle based on probable cause without having to get a warrant… . … …. Next-generation vehicles generate gigabytes of data while driving…[and] law enforcement could gain access…without a warrant For example, police could access in-car apps that contain sensitive information, such as… travel history , social media apps that store messages … past purchases …[and] likely be unlocked when police pull over a driver [Also] drivers may be intimidated into revealing their passwords during a stop, as has happened…at border crossings Already, some police use special devices…to circumvent built-in security measures on citizens’ phones and quickly copy their contents — similar devices could be designed for cars…. …. .” [Despite] risks, a car’s ability to collect information is not inherently privacy-invasive ….Policymakers should close this loophole Just as Congress has been working to close the loophole for cloud computing, it should…require law enforcement…to obtain a warrant https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/25/congress-should-close-the-loophole-allowing-warrantless-digital-car-searches/ Political issues bleeding into the future When the Cat’s Away … “[I]t’s springtime for strongmen_…._ [China’s] Xi wants to be emperor, not president. Russia’s Vladimir Putin wants to be czar, not president. Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to be caliph, not president. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi wants to be pharaoh, not president. Hungary’s Viktor Orban wants to be king, not prime minister. And Iran’s Ali Khamenei already has the most coveted title du jour, supreme leader …. [Trump’s] comfortable with foreign strongmen, but [with]…Putin and Xi, seems to be awed by them, and may even be envious of them…. ….[ [He’s] also reflecting a widespread exhaustion in the country …[starting] ‘with Bush getting bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan’ Also] who’d look at our democracy…as a model for emulation? It takes $1 billion to run for the White House, Congress has become a forum for legalized bribery…[with] our own major state-run network, Fox News, that treats our president as ‘Dear Leader’ …. [There’ also] more refugees on the road around the world…to be very useful boogeymen for all these strongmen, who combine a kind of aggressive nationalism of historical destiny…[with] defense of national boundaries ….[This] works to tighten their grip on power…and to deflect attention from how much they and their cronies are stealing …. ” [Changes] have come so fast for some people that they’re looking for leaders who will…stop the winds of change and bring back the 1950s ….[But] there’s technology…for autocrats to use facial recognition, cyberspying or data mining to more efficiently track, arrest and silence all of them. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/opinion/trump-strongmen-democracy.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront _History teaches men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. [Eban]_medium.com Quicksand of Our Past Putin claims Russia has nuclear arsenal capable of avoiding missile defenses — “[New] nuclear-powered cruise missiles capable to hitting any point on the globe…[Putin] warned that Moscow would consider any nuclear attack, of any size, on it or its allies an attack on Russia that would lead to an immediate response**….** ” [A] cruise missile…propelled by a nuclear-powered engine…[has] practically unlimited range…[and] able to fly close to the ground and follow an unpredictable flight path, rendering existing missile defenses ‘useless’… a major breakthrough. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/putin-claims-russia-has-nuclear-arsenal-capable-of-avoiding-missile-defenses/2018/03/01/d2dcf522-1d3b-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html?utm_term=.e9d6667f4985 _April 2000, as millennium celebrations passed into history, Silicon Valley luminary, Bill Joy, wrote a provocative…_medium.com Civilization’s Anti-Human, Not Machines An alien cyberattack? As if we didn’t have enough to worry about — “[A]n alien message from outer space could contain malicious data designed to wreak havoc on Earth…[because] impossible to ‘decontaminate with certainty’ and could pose an ‘existential threat…. [ Many] debated whether humanity would benefit from contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, or ETI…. So far, no one has heard anything very life-like …. …. [ [Still] it is cheaper for ETI to send a malicious message to eradicate humans compared to sending battleships’ There’s] several different types of malicious communications. A simple one might contain a threat like ‘We will make your sun go supernova tomorrow. True or not, it could cause widespread panic’…. . .… Messages that contain big diagrams, algorithms or equations could come with viruses hidden in them…[or] algorithm needed to decompress them could also be code…[that] could unleash the malware…[or] header of such a message might read: ‘We are friends. The galactic library is attached It is in the form of an artificial intelligence which quickly learns your language and will answer your questions ’Extraordinary steps could be taken to isolate the artificial intelligence…[but] efforts to imprison an [AI]…delivered by extraterrestrials would probably fail. Even a military-style experiment could go awry…[if] the artificial intelligence could offer a cure for cancer in exchange for an increase in computer capacity…. ‘ …. .” We can never exclude human error and emotion’….Once the artificial intelligence is out, it could do all kinds of damage….Understanding the risks is what’s important The potential benefits from joining a galactic network might be considerable https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/28/an-alien-cyberattack-as-if-we-didnt-have-enough-to-worry-about/?utm_term=.31fb55499331 Find more of my ideas on Medium at, . A Passion to Evolve Or click the Follow button below to add me to your feed. 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The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . The Fight in the Desert The Fight in the Desert As the three squatted upon the roof above the quarters of the Ouled-Nails they heard the angry cursing of the Arabs in the room beneath. Abdul translated from time to time to Tarzan. “They are berating those in the street below now,” said Abdul, “for permitting us to escape so easily. Those in the street say that we did not come that way—that we are still within the building, and that those above, being too cowardly to attack us, are attempting to deceive them into believing that we have escaped. In a moment they will have fighting of their own to attend to if they continue their brawling.” Presently those in the building gave up the search, and returned to the café. A few remained in the street below, smoking and talking. Tarzan spoke to the girl, thanking her for the sacrifice she had made for him, a total stranger. “I liked you,” she said simply. “You were unlike the others who come to the café. You did not speak coarsely to me—the manner in which you gave me money was not an insult.” “What shall you do after tonight?” he asked. “You cannot return to the café. Can you even remain with safety in Sidi Aissa?” “Tomorrow it will be forgotten,” she replied. “But I should be glad if it might be that I need never return to this or another café. I have not remained because I wished to; I have been a prisoner.” “A prisoner!” ejaculated Tarzan incredulously. “A slave would be the better word,” she answered. “I was stolen in the night from my father’s douar by a band of marauders. They brought me here and sold me to the Arab who keeps this café. It has been nearly two years now since I saw the last of mine own people. They are very far to the south. They never come to Sidi Aissa.” “You would like to return to your people?” asked Tarzan. “Then I shall promise to see you safely so far as Bou Saada at least. There we can doubtless arrange with the commandant to send you the rest of the way.” “Oh, m’sieur,” she cried, “how can I ever repay you! You cannot really mean that you will do so much for a poor Ouled-Nail. But my father can reward you, and he will, for is he not a great sheik? He is Kadour ben Saden.” “Kadour ben Saden!” ejaculated Tarzan. “Why, Kadour ben Saden is in Sidi Aissa this very night. He dined with me but a few hours since.” “My father in Sidi Aissa?” cried the amazed girl. “Allah be praised then, for I am indeed saved.” “Hssh!” cautioned Abdul. “Listen.” From below came the sound of voices, quite distinguishable upon the still night air. Tarzan could not understand the words, but Abdul and the girl translated. “They have gone now,” said the latter. “It is you they want, m’sieur. One of them said that the stranger who had offered money for your slaying lay in the house of Akmed din Soulef with a broken wrist, but that he had offered a still greater reward if some would lay in wait for you upon the road to Bou Saada and kill you.” “It is he who followed m’sieur about the market today,” exclaimed Abdul. “I saw him again within the café—him and another; and the two went out into the inner court after talking with this girl here. It was they who attacked and fired upon us, as we came out of the café. Why do they wish to kill you, m’sieur?” “I do not know,” replied Tarzan, and then, after a pause: “Unless—” But he did not finish, for the thought that had come to his mind, while it seemed the only reasonable solution of the mystery, appeared at the same time quite improbable. Presently the men in the street went away. The courtyard and the café were deserted. Cautiously Tarzan lowered himself to the sill of the girl’s window. The room was empty. He returned to the roof and let Abdul down, then he lowered the girl to the arms of the waiting Arab. From the window Abdul dropped the short distance to the street below, while Tarzan took the girl in his arms and leaped down as he had done on so many other occasions in his own forest with a burden in his arms. A little cry of alarm was startled from the girl’s lips, but Tarzan landed in the street with but an imperceptible jar, and lowered her in safety to her feet. She clung to him for a moment. “How strong m’sieur is, and how active,” she cried. “El Adrea, the black lion, himself is not more so.” “I should like to meet this el Adrea of yours,” he said. “I have heard much about him.” “And you come to the douar of my father you shall see him,” said the girl. “He lives in a spur of the mountains north of us, and comes down from his lair at night to rob my father’s douar. With a single blow of his mighty paw he crushes the skull of a bull, and woe betide the belated wayfarer who meets el Adrea abroad at night.” Without further mishap they reached the hotel. The sleepy landlord objected strenuously to instituting a search for Kadour ben Saden until the following morning, but a piece of gold put a different aspect on the matter, so that a few moments later a servant had started to make the rounds of the lesser native hostelries where it might be expected that a desert sheik would find congenial associations. Tarzan had felt it necessary to find the girl’s father that night, for fear he might start on his homeward journey too early in the morning to be intercepted. They had waited perhaps half an hour when the messenger returned with Kadour ben Saden. The old sheik entered the room with a questioning expression upon his proud face. “Monsieur has done me the honor to—” he commenced, and then his eyes fell upon the girl. With outstretched arms he crossed the room to meet her. “My daughter!” he cried. “Allah is merciful!” and tears dimmed the martial eyes of the old warrior. When the story of her abduction and her final rescue had been told to Kadour ben Saden he extended his hand to Tarzan. “All that is Kadour ben Saden’s is thine, my friend, even to his life,” he said very simply, but Tarzan knew that those were no idle words. It was decided that although three of them would have to ride after practically no sleep, it would be best to make an early start in the morning, and attempt to ride all the way to Bou Saada in one day. It would have been comparatively easy for the men, but for the girl it was sure to be a fatiguing journey. She, however, was the most anxious to undertake it, for it seemed to her that she could not quickly enough reach the family and friends from whom she had been separated for two years. It seemed to Tarzan that he had not closed his eyes before he was awakened, and in another hour the party was on its way south toward Bou Saada. For a few miles the road was good, and they made rapid progress, but suddenly it became only a waste of sand, into which the horses sank fetlock deep at nearly every step. In addition to Tarzan, Abdul, the sheik, and his daughter were four of the wild plainsmen of the sheik’s tribe who had accompanied him upon the trip to Sidi Aissa. Thus, seven guns strong, they entertained little fear of attack by day, and if all went well they should reach Bou Saada before nightfall. A brisk wind enveloped them in the blowing sand of the desert, until Tarzan’s lips were parched and cracked. What little he could see of the surrounding country was far from alluring—a vast expanse of rough country, rolling in little, barren hillocks, and tufted here and there with clumps of dreary shrub. Far to the south rose the dim lines of the Saharan Atlas range. How different, thought Tarzan, from the gorgeous Africa of his boyhood! Abdul, always on the alert, looked backward quite as often as he did ahead. At the top of each hillock that they mounted he would draw in his horse and, turning, scan the country to the rear with utmost care. At last his scrutiny was rewarded. “Look!” he cried. “There are six horsemen behind us.” “Your friends of last evening, no doubt, monsieur,” remarked Kadour ben Saden dryly to Tarzan. “No doubt,” replied the ape-man. “I am sorry that my society should endanger the safety of your journey. At the next village I shall remain and question these gentlemen, while you ride on. There is no necessity for my being at Bou Saada tonight, and less still why you should not ride in peace.” “If you stop we shall stop,” said Kadour ben Saden. “Until you are safe with your friends, or the enemy has left your trail, we shall remain with you. There is nothing more to say.” Tarzan nodded his head. He was a man of few words, and possibly it was for this reason as much as any that Kadour ben Saden had taken to him, for if there be one thing that an Arab despises it is a talkative man. All the balance of the day Abdul caught glimpses of the horsemen in their rear. They remained always at about the same distance. During the occasional halts for rest, and at the longer halt at noon, they approached no closer. “They are waiting for darkness,” said Kadour ben Saden. And darkness came before they reached Bou Saada. The last glimpse that Abdul had of the grim, white-robed figures that trailed them, just before dusk made it impossible to distinguish them, had made it apparent that they were rapidly closing up the distance that intervened between them and their intended quarry. He whispered this fact to Tarzan, for he did not wish to alarm the girl. The ape-man drew back beside him. “You will ride ahead with the others, Abdul,” said Tarzan. “This is my quarrel. I shall wait at the next convenient spot, and interview these fellows.” “Then Abdul shall wait at thy side,” replied the young Arab, nor would any threats or commands move him from his decision. “Very well, then,” replied Tarzan. “Here is as good a place as we could wish. Here are rocks at the top of this hillock. We shall remain hidden here and give an account of ourselves to these gentlemen when they appear.” They drew in their horses and dismounted. The others riding ahead were already out of sight in the darkness. Beyond them shone the lights of Bou Saada. Tarzan removed his rifle from its boot and loosened his revolver in its holster. He ordered Abdul to withdraw behind the rocks with the horses, so that they should be shielded from the enemies’ bullets should they fire. The young Arab pretended to do as he was bid, but when he had fastened the two animals securely to a low shrub he crept back to lie on his belly a few paces behind Tarzan. The ape-man stood erect in the middle of the road, waiting. Nor did he have long to wait. The sound of galloping horses came suddenly out of the darkness below him, and a moment later he discerned the moving blotches of lighter color against the solid background of the night. “Halt,” he cried, “or we fire!” The white figures came to a sudden stop, and for a moment there was silence. Then came the sound of a whispered council, and like ghosts the phantom riders dispersed in all directions. Again the desert lay still about him, yet it was an ominous stillness that foreboded evil. Abdul raised himself to one knee. Tarzan cocked his jungle-trained ears, and presently there came to him the sound of horses walking quietly through the sand to the east of him, to the west, to the north, and to the south. They had been surrounded. Then a shot came from the direction in which he was looking, a bullet whirred through the air above his head, and he fired at the flash of the enemy’s gun. Instantly the soundless waste was torn with the quick staccato of guns upon every hand. Abdul and Tarzan fired only at the flashes—they could not yet see their foemen. Presently it became evident that the attackers were circling their position, drawing closer and closer in as they began to realize the paltry numbers of the party which opposed them. But one came too close, for Tarzan was accustomed to using his eyes in the darkness of the jungle night, than which there is no more utter darkness this side the grave, and with a cry of pain a saddle was emptied. “The odds are evening, Abdul,” said Tarzan, with a low laugh. But they were still far too one-sided, and when the five remaining horsemen whirled at a signal and charged full upon them it looked as if there would be a sudden ending of the battle. Both Tarzan and Abdul sprang to the shelter of the rocks, that they might keep the enemy in front of them. There was a mad clatter of galloping hoofs, a volley of shots from both sides, and the Arabs withdrew to repeat the maneuver; but there were now only four against the two. For a few moments there came no sound from out of the surrounding blackness. Tarzan could not tell whether the Arabs, satisfied with their losses, had given up the fight, or were waiting farther along the road to waylay them as they proceeded on toward Bou Saada. But he was not left long in doubt, for now all from one direction came the sound of a new charge. But scarcely had the first gun spoken ere a dozen shots rang out behind the Arabs. There came the wild shouts of a new party to the controversy, and the pounding of the feet of many horses from down the road to Bou Saada. The Arabs did not wait to learn the identity of the oncomers. With a parting volley as they dashed by the position which Tarzan and Abdul were holding, they plunged off along the road toward Sidi Aissa. A moment later Kadour ben Saden and his men dashed up. The old sheik was much relieved to find that neither Tarzan nor Abdul had received a scratch. Not even had their horses been wounded. They sought out the two men who had fallen before Tarzan’s shots, and, finding that both were dead, left them where they lay. “Why did you not tell me that you contemplated ambushing those fellows?” asked the sheik in a hurt tone. “We might have had them all if the seven of us had stopped to meet them.” “Then it would have been useless to stop at all,” replied Tarzan, “for had we simply ridden on toward Bou Saada they would have been upon us presently, and all could have been engaged. It was to prevent the transfer of my own quarrel to another’s shoulders that Abdul and I stopped off to question them. Then there is your daughter—I could not be the cause of exposing her needlessly to the marksmanship of six men.” Kadour ben Saden shrugged his shoulders. He did not relish having been cheated out of a fight. The little battle so close to Bou Saada had drawn out a company of soldiers. Tarzan and his party met them just outside the town. The officer in charge halted them to learn the significance of the shots. “A handful of marauders,” replied Kadour ben Saden. “They attacked two of our number who had dropped behind, but when we returned to them the fellows soon dispersed. They left two dead. None of my party was injured.” This seemed to satisfy the officer, and after taking the names of the party he marched his men on toward the scene of the skirmish to bring back the dead men for purposes of identification, if possible. Two days later, Kadour ben Saden, with his daughter and followers, rode south through the pass below Bou Saada, bound for their home in the far wilderness. The sheik had urged Tarzan to accompany him, and the girl had added her entreaties to those of her father; but, though he could not explain it to them, Tarzan’s duties loomed particularly large after the happenings of the past few days, so that he could not think of leaving his post for an instant. But he promised to come later if it lay within his power to do so, and they had to content themselves with that assurance. During these two days Tarzan had spent practically all his time with Kadour ben Saden and his daughter. He was keenly interested in this race of stern and dignified warriors, and embraced the opportunity which their friendship offered to learn what he could of their lives and customs. He even commenced to acquire the rudiments of their language under the pleasant tutorage of the brown-eyed girl. It was with real regret that he saw them depart, and he sat his horse at the opening to the pass, as far as which he had accompanied them, gazing after the little party as long as he could catch a glimpse of them. Here were people after his own heart! Their wild, rough lives, filled with danger and hardship, appealed to this half-savage man as nothing had appealed to him in the midst of the effeminate civilization of the great cities he had visited. Here was a life that excelled even that of the jungle, for here he might have the society of men—real men whom he could honor and respect, and yet be near to the wild nature that he loved. In his head revolved an idea that when he had completed his mission he would resign and return to live for the remainder of his life with the tribe of Kadour ben Saden. Then he turned his horse’s head and rode slowly back to Bou Saada. The front of the Hotel du Petit Sahara, where Tarzan stopped in Bou Saada, is taken up with the bar, two dining-rooms, and the kitchens. Both of the dining-rooms open directly off the bar, and one of them is reserved for the use of the officers of the garrison. As you stand in the barroom you may look into either of the dining-rooms if you wish. It was to the bar that Tarzan repaired after speeding Kadour ben Saden and his party on their way. It was yet early in the morning, for Kadour ben Saden had elected to ride far that day, so that it happened that when Tarzan returned there were guests still at breakfast. As his casual glance wandered into the officers’ dining-room, Tarzan saw something which brought a look of interest to his eyes. Lieutenant Gernois was sitting there, and as Tarzan looked a white-robed Arab approached and, bending, whispered a few words into the lieutenant’s ear. Then he passed on out of the building through another door. In itself the thing was nothing, but as the man had stooped to speak to the officer, Tarzan had caught sight of something which the accidental parting of the man’s burnoose had revealed—he carried his left arm in a sling. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1993). The Return of Tarzan. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/81/pg81-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org , located at https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html .

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The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon! : The Return of Tarzan Title : Edgar Rice Burroughs Author : September 1, 1993 [EBook #81] Release Date : English Language Table of Links Chapter I The Affair on the Liner Chapter II Forging Bonds of Hate and ——? Chapter III What Happened in the Rue Maule Chapter IV The Countess Explains Chapter V The Plot That Failed Chapter VI A Duel Chapter VII The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa Chapter VIII The Fight in the Desert Chapter IX Numa “El Adrea” Chapter X Through the Valley of the Shadow Chapter XI John Caldwell, London Chapter XII Ships That Pass Chapter XIII The Wreck of the “Lady Alice” Chapter XIV Back to the Primitive Chapter XV From Ape to Savage Chapter XVI The Ivory Raiders Chapter XVII The White Chief of the Waziri Chapter XVIII The Lottery of Death Chapter XIX The City of Gold Chapter XX La Chapter XXI The Castaways Chapter XXII The Treasure Vaults of Opar Chapter XXIII The Fifty Frightful Men Chapter XXIV How Tarzan Came Again to Opar Chapter XXV Through the Forest Primeval Chapter XXVI The Passing of the Ape-Man About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1993). The Return of Tarzan. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/81/pg81-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org , located at https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html .

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The thought of AI emerging to disrupt the order of things in the world has become torn on many people's flesh — especially for the working class. Mere reasoning of what this new technology is capable of, and its relevance across several institutions and sectors, is already creating mixed feelings of excitement, shock, and fright. According to a recent survey, about are scared of AI taking over their jobs. It’s indeed fearful; looking at the number of years devoted to learning by the graduates. 69% of graduates The evolution of AI and its integration into various sectors for enhancement is becoming insufficient. Now, AI is considered to be on a journey of making people lose their jobs. In a report presented by the World Economic Forum in 2020, there is a global economic threat that automation will displace in 5 years. over 85 million jobs With the emergence of AI elements like , robots, and chatbots that automate tedious tasks and provide viable solutions, it's obvious that AI is truly capable of hijacking human jobs. ChatGPT However, there are still many things to do before AI's irreversible takeover. One important thing to focus on is to outsource solutions on how to safeguard human jobs from being snatched by AI, or, discover viable ways humans can work side-by-side with the disrupting technology. For you to locate the right step to take in securing your job, a clear understanding of what the new technology AI means is important. What's the Phenomenon called AI? AI can simply be described as the into machines, enabling them to carry out tasks, solve problems, and provide accurate predictions and solutions for humans. AI functions via data processing and programming, which are embedded in them by humans. simulation of human intelligence Nowadays, the proliferation of AI makes it easy to be integrated into machines and devices used by humans. Modern devices like Smartphones with (iPhones) and (Android), (AVs), robots, chatbots, and recently, ChatGPT are examples of AI. Siri Google Assistant Autonomous Vehicles The Fears and Speculation About AI There are several sectors, such as health, economy, business, education, agriculture, and architecture that have already incorporated AI into their activities. This is because AI can influence speed delivery, high level of productivity, and reduce the cost of operation. The central idea is to maximize AI to enhance human efforts. But over time, AI has transformed, welding enough power to execute tasks with little, or no, human assistance. Which has now created fear and concern in many people. The question many are asking is: will AI affect their job? If that should happen, what can be done to prevent unemployment? Fields AI Is Expected to Have Total Dominance It's imminent that some jobs will be hijacked by AI as we progress. A survey carried out by Tidio revealed that are positive about AI taking over the economy completely. 45% of people Some of the career paths AI may significantly disrupt include cashiers, drivers, and also, translators. AI will also greatly impact fields like customer service, data entry, research, and other learnable tasks. Fields AI Can't Totally Takeover There are many other fields where AI is used to enhance activities, yet, the technology is still far behind in taking full control, leaving the workers of the fields with the hope of job retention. Some of these fields include human touch fields (like Contractors, Plumbers, Electricians, and Interior & Exterior installers), Management Professionals, Lawyers, Writers, Teachers, and Medical Professionals. The inability of AI to pose a threat to some of these vocations emerges from its to understand complex strategic planning, harness empathy, show creativity, or perform tasks that demand hand-eye coordination. weakness Tasks like window installation demand careful hand-eye observation and execution; for writing, there is a need to reflect a level of creativity that conforms with feelings, emotional intelligence, and mood. These are qualities AI can't exhibit, leaving humans in full charge. How to Beat AI Disruption To keep your relevance as a worker in your field despite the emerging AI-led disruption is to be willing to go the extra mile. In 2017, the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, said, " . Because what’s going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us.” there certainly will be job disruption According to the Twitter owner, robots (AI) will certainly take control as we progress. But for you to remain relevant during job disruption as influenced by AI dominance, the following must become a priority: upskilling & reskilling. Upskilling Despite the impressive abilities of AI, the technology still suffers from a deficiency in many areas. Some of these include its inability to use empathy and conceive innovative ideas and its lack of creativity. These are essential skills humans need to possess to be indispensable through AI-Inspired disruption. According to the World Economic Forum , by 2025, new professions for humans will demand analytical thinking, creativity, and flexibility as a skill set for recruitment. These are all qualities AI can't provide. report To function in the new era of AI, you have to be: Creative Learn about people management Have critical thinking and problem-solving skill And lastly, generate strong emotional intelligence. Reskilling Reskilling is another important thing to focus on to retain your job during AI disruption. The ability to move into the next big thing as the current situation demands will be needed. The report from the World Economic Forum also states that the robot revolution will create up to 97 million new jobs with the support of the government and businesses during disruption. This means, learning how to control AI and building knowledge on how to train and monitor AI to execute tasks perfectly will become a valuable skill set needed to retain your job in the future. Conclusion AI’s inevitable job disruption is why humans should focus on discovering areas that can be filled. The filling of the void AI will leave behind will become the new job of many people in years to come. Technology will keep advancing to increase AI relevance. Currently, researchers are working hard in developing (AGI), a form of AI that would enable a machine to have human cognitive abilities to solve problems on its own. Artificial General Intelligence However, the limitation is palpable: it's still impossible for AI to replace humans in all areas.

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PART ONE Will AI Take Over The World? The answer you’ve been searching for, in a nutshell. Source: Unspalsh This article will take you through a journey inside the mind of a person who has no/little experience when it comes to this topic before gaining a (somewhat) comprehensive understanding of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI). This journey will be broken down into 3 different parts: will AI intelligence supersede human intelligence Part (1): How will AI intelligence overtake the human race Part (2): When a digital superintelligence has successfully been created and for some reason, it wants to take over the world. Will it be able to do so? Part(3): What if FYI: This article focuses on Part (1). Before we start, I would like to clear a general misconception about the concept of AI. As nicely summarised by Tim urban: Stop thinking of . A robot is a for AI, sometimes mimicking the human form, sometimes not — but the AI itself is the computer the robot. AI is the brain, and the robot is its body — if it even has a body. For example, the software and data behind Siri are AI, the woman’s voice we hear is a personification of that AI, and there’s no robot involved at all. robots container inside How did it all start? The beginning The term “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy, a researcher who later founded AI labs at MIT and Stanford. Meet THE man- John McCarthy In the early 1950s, the study of “thinking machines” had various names like cybernetics, automata theory, and information processing. McCarthy wanted a new, neutral umbrella term that could collect and focused on developing machines that could simulate every aspect of intelligence. organize these disparate research efforts into a single field During the early days, the pioneers of AI that machines will eventually far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man! did not believe that machines could behave intelligently and definitely did not consider the possibility However, when the results proved to be - computers being able to solve numerical problems, invent mathematical proofs that were more elegant than the original, follow instructions and answer questions in English, organizations like DARPA poured tens of millions of dollars into AI projects at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford! astonishing Evolution of AI Over the years, as the cost of computing started declining and processing power got more powerful, AI is now able to run a more complex algorithm on more data than ever! What are the implications? AI can now outperform human intelligence in many domains! You may be familiar with some of these events, which marked a significant advancement that happened far sooner than experts expected! ‘ AI beats human champions’ Source from Valuewalk & the hype goes on. I.e. In 2019, AI triumphs against the world’s top pro team in strategy game Dota 2….. What hasn’t AI taken over the human race yet? In this article, I will attempt to break down this by unveiling the different factors mentioned in Bostrom’s Superintelligence book: million-dollar question AI’s technical limitations Different paths that lead to Superintelligence (Part 1) This will allow you to form about the future of AI. your final opinions/conclusion AI’s technical challenges While AI has managed to beat human champions in multiple domains (Chess, dota), one might have thought that AI has mastered a high level of general intelligence to learn abstract concepts, think cleverly about strategies, compose flexible plans and make a wide range of logical deductions. You are wrong. While AI succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires thinking, AI still lacks what most 10-year-olds possess: Ordinary Common Sense. AI can mimic human tasks if they’re specific enough. They can , , , and beat humans in specific games. locate and identify objects climb provide disaster relief However, and that is why IBM’s Deep Blue built around a chess-specific algorithm won’t be able to defeat the ‘GO’ champions because it is not programmed to do so! AI can only perform well in a specific well-defined task HEY AI, IS THE MILK CARTON FULL? IF I PUT MY SWEETS IN A JAR, WILL IT STILL BE THERE TOMORROW? So unless someone were to succeed in creating an AI that could understand as well as a human being, they would have succeeded in creating an AI that could do everything that human intelligence can do. common sense When will human-level machine learning be attained? No one has a clue! Well, Bostrom did cite a survey conducted with a bunch of AI researches, and these were their opinions: 10% chance of happening in 2030 50% chance of happening in 2050 90% chance of happening in 2100 It could take another decade or next hundred years, no one knows! Regardless, now you know your knowledge of AI progression is . not outdated 2.0. Different paths that lead to Superintelligence 2.1. Artificial Intelligence Traditional computers relied on human beings to tell them what to do and how to react. ‘Artificial Intelligence’ means equipping machines with the power to make its own decision like human beings. How to give them power? Just like how human beings store the information in their brain and learn from their patterns, scientists have also been able to use the stored machine information to make machines learn from them. This method of training computers is famously known as ‘Machine Learning’. When our human brain sees this animal, we can immediately absorb these complex information and label it as a ‘Seal’. How about if we wanted a computer to do the same task, to classify (label) photos as seal/not-seal? It’s not that simple . (As explained in the earlier part of my article) Essentially, machine learning trains the AI to function as an “Object Labeler “ by showing the computer a bunch of cute seals pictures so that it can figure out what is a seal/not a seal. If humans took decades of learning to train our human brain, what about machines? Currently, AI is not able to adapt to new situations without human assistance. I.e. An AI trained in chess is not able to win a dota game. Food for thought: SEED AI In 1950, Alan Turning came up with the notion of where instead of trying to produce a program to stimulate the adult mind, why not train an AI to stimulate a child’s mind? “child machine” Humans have been evolving and learning from their past experiences, can AI grow up too? This brings us to the concept of To put it simply, Seed AI would have to possess capabilities where it would be able to iteratively improves itself by its own source code without human intervention. ‘Seed AI.’ ‘recursive self-improvement’ recursively rewriting A Seed AI could start off with a relatively low level of intelligence. However, if it is intelligent enough to rewrite its source code to become more intelligent (that is, to become better at achieving its goal), as a result, it could become even better at rewriting its own source code to become even more intelligent. This lead to an intelligence explosion, where the AI rapidly becomes superintelligent! could Current progress As far as we know, nobody has built a Seed AI yet. I’m not going to dive into the full discussion of the debates, but this concept is already interesting to think about. Instead of training the AI from scratch….What if we downloaded our human brain into a thumb drive and plug it into our computer? This brings us to the next possible path to superintelligence… 2.2. Whole brain emulation Whole brain emulation involves scanning and closely modeling the computational structure of a biological brain to produce intelligent software. Imagine uploading Einstein/ Elon Musk/Steve jobs minds into your own body :O This method totally reminds me of the show ‘ the body no longer matters. As one character quipped: “You shed it like a snake sheds its skin.” That’s because the human consciousness has been digitized, and can be moved between bodies — both real and synthetic. Altered Carbon’ where Just showing this diagram to illustrate the complexity of this method. Guess my order ain’t coming anytime soon. Capabilities required for brain emulation (Don’t bore yourself with the details!) How far are we currently from achieving a whole human brain emulation? Well, no brains have been emulated yet. However, when the Bostrom wrote his Superintelligence book in 2014, the emulation path was believed to take another 10–15 years to gain some traction as there are several challenging technologies (Algorithm & Supercomputers) that have yet to be developed! Algorithm? Scientist cracked it! In 2018, an amazing breakthrough happened as Scientists successfully created an algorithm capable of performing a complete human brain simulation by simulating the brain’s one billion connections between individual neurons and synapses ! What’s the problem then? Currently, even the most powerful supercomputers today such as the “K computer” at the Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan can only of human brain simulation. tackle at most 10% Will this method be truly feasible in the future? Maybe? When future hit the scene — projected to be 10 to 100 times more powerful than today’s top performing computers — the algorithm can immediately run on those computing beasts and researchers hope to reach 100 percent simulation. exascale supercomputers Nevertheless, compared with the AI path to machine intelligence, brain emulation seems to be more feasible as it relies more on concrete observable technologies (with traction) and not wholly based on theoretical insights. 2.3. Biological Cognition If I can’t train machines to make decisions like humans or download a human brain, why not pop a pill to enhance my mental abilities? Does this concept reminds you of the show “limitless”??? Unfortunately, the use of drugs to improve memory and concentration already exist in the market and getting that special ‘pill’ to spark a dramatic rise of intelligence are generally dubious and shady (Be wary of the marketing gimmicks you see on eBay/Amazon). This path extends beyond taking drugs to include as a way to achieve substantial improvement in cognition. ‘Manipulation of genetics’ The creation of the perfect babies known as ‘designer babies’ Far-fetched? I think not. Dum dum dum……….. Late last year (Nov 2018), a team of scientists led by Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen researcher, He Jiankui, claim to use a gene-editing tool known as “CRISPR” to tailor the genes of twin girls to make them . resistant to HIV This incident is one most significant experiment in the history of human genetics and led to a renewed debate about whether designer babies are going to become a reality in the very near future. Ah, but it’s not that simple… WAIT BUT WHY? (1) Genetics research has yet to progress to the point where scientists can pinpoint the genes related to intelligence. (2) Maturational lag- What happens when the selected embryos grow into an adult human being? What if genetically modifying a specific gene (intelligence) leads to the creation of new rare and nasty diseases? (3)Genetically modifying 1 child will affect its successive generation. We are talking about an impact that will spread over multiple generations! (4)Social implications- Imagine a nation filled with smart babies only because the nation can afford the financial and technological resources. What are the implications? How are non-genetically modified humans going to deal with a population of genetically enhanced humans? On an individual level: Other nations will lose out in economic, scientific, military, etc. Imagine how this phenomenon will affect global equality? On a global scale: & the list of constraints goes on….. Will this method be truly feasible in the future? As you can see, the biological path is clearly technologically feasible and cognitive enhancement could accelerate science and technology, including progress towards Machine Learning and Brain Emulation. Imagine a world where Average Joe had the brains of Einstein/ Alan Turning. BUT (there is always a but), there are significant consequences to adopting this approach as mentioned earlier. In Summary 3 potential paths to achieving Superintelligence: - Inputting codes into a machine for it to learn. Develop SEED AI: A machine that will iteratively improve itself w/o human intervention until it becomes smarter than humans Machine learning - Inserting contents of a human brain into a thumb drive and plugging it into a supercomputer Brain Emulation - Undertaking less-computer-centric approaches: infant nutrition, better education, and even selective breeding Biological Cognition 2. Weak forms of superintelligence can be achieved by means of biotechnological enhancements (Education/infant nutrition/cognitive related drugs to improve memory/concentration). 3. If all the ethical/scientific concerns of creating ‘perfect babies’ are resolved, this adds to the plausibility that advanced forms of machine intelligence will become more feasible. Hope Part (1) answered the “How” question and provided you with good insights on the various ways AI can potentially reach Superintelligence. Stay tuned for Part (2) on “When” (in terms of the timescale) AI can potentially supersede human intelligence!

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