By By Prof. Okey K. Nwofor
Summary
Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to machine intelligence created in computers by mimicking the processes associated with human intelligence. The procedure is a combination of scientific principles involving algorithm development, machine learning, big data, and neural networks. Having become very successful, artificially intelligent systems now achieve much of what was previously reserved for only humans such as answering of queries, organizing and executing tasks, and processing information in detail. Thus, AI has become a major resource for teaching and learning at all levels of education. The limits of what artificial systems can do are however determined by the level of scientific capacity of the human brain and how humans choose to deploy this. Hence the concerns as to when such artificially intelligent systems would take over the entire roles of humans have to be resolved by humans themselves. Replacing the human species completely as often projected for AI systems, would require having the self-awareness that only a mind can bring. These matters are at the intersection of AI Technology, Digital Education, and Philosophy. In the meantime, such a possibility remains an illusion.
