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Artificial Intelligence. AI. That thing around which the Matrix movies are built. The reason humans scorched the skies. The thing that gave Morpheus his rai·son d'ê·tre in searching for The One. The thing that could only be suppressed by Neo, who ended up being The One.
But that's Hollywood's story. It isn't real. The real story is more like the movie The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly when Blondie says, "You see in this world there are two kinds of people my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig."
The Good: AI can monitor our health in real time using machines built for that purpose. According to a report in the MIT Technology Review, "an audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything." While I've put this under "The Good", I believe the way Jun Wang wants to do it will turn bad and get very ugly.
The Bad: AI will never drive multiple vehicles safely. It can't drive one in real conditions without crashing, and the world doesn't have enough money to build the infrastructure self-driving vehicles will need to operate with any meaningful degree of safety. As the article says, "A real intelligence doesn't break when you slightly change the problem."
The Ugly: AI is not new. For all the headlines it has been generating in the last year or so, AI hasn't only now become a revolution, if it ever was or will be one. But according to Google/Alphabet and Facebook, two multi-national companies seeking to bring all mankind under a one-world government they will run, AI is the thing to deploy. That is guaranteed to fail, but that's another story.
Here's where it gets ugly: If AI is deployed in customer service, the entire nation of India will fall into a black economic hole so deep it will be like they will have gone back in time to 350 BC. Add Indonesia to that and it gets worse.
Don't take my word for it. According to Pankaj Bansal in this same issue, until three years ago the IT sector was regularly hiring 400,000 people annually. AI has shrunk those numbers to less than 160,000 annually. He says, "...soon net hiring will be barely above zero."
Further, using real language interfaces, AI will deliver terrible customer service. The same issue of the MIT Technology Review says AI is already identifying the slang of African-Americans as Danish.
Look, penicillin was an accidental discovery. Maybe all these people working so hard on AI should go on a summer holiday while letting it work on a problem. Maybe they'll come back to a discovery about how to identify terrorists or something useful.
Oh. Wait. That's already been invented. It was called Thinthread and greed and incompetence shut it down. Are you digging yet?
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