Reading artificial intelligence is developing at a very rapid pace. Many people worry about the effects that artificial intelligence might have. Below is a popular science article about artificial intelligence. Before you read the article, think about the following questions. What do you know about artificial intelligence? How is the author likely to organize the information on artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence, friendly or frightening? Imagine waking up one morning with the option of staying in bed and pressing a button to send a robot to do all the work for you. How cool that would be. IT may seem like building castles in the air, but given the rated which artificial intelligence or AI is being developed in the future, such dreams may actually come true. At the basic level, artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines, one of the essential lanes of AI is to develop computer intelligence capable of learning from experience, adJusting to new inputs, and performing tasks like humans to achieve the same. Many approaches to creating true AI have been put forward, including deep learning, which enables the machine to improve its own performance by learning from the results of its previous actions. Deep learning AI has the capacity to analyze massive amounts of data through multiple layers, imitating the complex networks of the human brain. The dream of AI has been around for centuries and the development of computers since the nineteen and forties has finally made IT a reality. Years before the term artificial intelligence was coined in the mid one thousand fifties, the theory had been explored by turing, one of the pioneers in the field of computer science. However, for a long time, a ee technology developed very slowly, a major breakthrough. When AI came in nineteen and ninety seven, windy blue, a chess playing computer, did the world chess champion garry kasparov. Then in two thousand seventeen, a computer program named alphago defeated could jah arguably the best human goal player, which demonstrated a significant advance in deep learning. AI systems. Nowadays, AI is already being applied in many fields, finance, health care, machine translation in art, to name but a few. From autonomy's vehicles to domestic robots, from recommendation systems to computers, writing novels, AI has an unlimited number of applications. Ordinary people are now using a eye to get instant translations of text in foreign languages, and machines can recognize fingerprints and even faces. In short, this technology is transforming the way we live. IT is clear that we are rather turning point in history with machines like alphago now capable of thinking and learning from their mistakes, we are getting closer to the dividing line between humans and machines. The question is, where will all this lead? While AI enthusiasts promise as a bright future where intelligent robots will be working to our advantage, these undoubtedly efts also bring concerns and fears. Could machines really develop human like intelligence? And what would happen if they did? Would thinking machines work alongside humans or threaten the existence of humans? How would they be punished if they committed crimes or even murdered humans? As we become more and more dependent on computers, some scientists were ging us to think about the dangers posed by the advances in AI. Stephen hawking, for example, warned the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Apparently, such warnings demand our attention. We need to make sure that we will not fall victim to AI. We may still think IT would be fantastic to relax all day and allow autonomous machines to do all the work for us, but perhaps we should not be too greedy and rather be careful what we wish for.