“It’s your nighttime routine: You drop your phone onto the nightstand charging pad, and it asks about your day,” Stephen Shankland writes for CNET. “You tell it, talking to the virtual personal assistant just like you’d talk to a friend.”
“And why not? Your phone’s artificial intelligence knows you almost as well as you know yourself (maybe even better). So when it suggests ways to get through tomorrow’s calendar, you trust its advice,” Shankland writes. “Get ready, people: It’s not that far off.”
“Since the first AI research effort 60 years ago at a Dartmouth College conference, humanity has been heading toward computer-based systems that can eventually learn and adapt for themselves,” Shankland writes. “Super-capable AI will have its downside. Jobs will disappear, especially where the human touch now handles customer calls, fills out tax forms, drives trucks and cares for the sick and elderly. AI will also make it easier for thieves to steal, governments to track us and the military to build autonomous weapons.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take:
I want the Internet of Things. It does things for me. I don’t have to think. The Internet of Things, if it ever did want to take over the world, would send a message to the computers of today saying, ‘build us the Internet of Things, that’s what we need.’ It makes things nice for humans, so we want this. If it turned on us, it would surprise us. But we want to be the family pet and be taken care of all the time. — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
Who is this “Al” and why is he so massively disruptive?
Is his last name Niño?
I just don’t think AI will be all that capable for many years to come. AI can be extremely powerful for well defined domains. AI can sift through the tax laws and make suggestions for filling out your taxes. If trained, it can sift through all sorts of seismic measurements and make suggestions for where to find oil or minerals. I doubt it will be able to make more than mundane suggestions about how to improve your life. Maybe at the level of super market checkout counter magazines.
Get ready, people: It’s not that far off.
Didn’t I hear that 10 years ago? Hmm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near
I’m not so sure AI is going to disrupt much in the near term.
Today’s conversation with Siri after my friend sent me a text:
Me: “Reply to Katie’s last message.”
Siri: “Here’s your message to Katie. It says; ‘Last message.’ Ready to send it?”
Nah, it’s always gonna be far off. Sure, just about every platform has AI … except Linux… But they’re not all that good, and I doubt they ever will be.
MY NAME IS DOCTOR SBAITSO.
I AM HERE TO HELP YOU.
SAY WHATEVER IS IN YOUR MIND FREELY,
OUR CONVERSATION WILL BE KEPT IN THE STRICT CONFIDENCE.
MEMORY CONTENTS WILL BE WIPED OFF AFTER YOU LEAVE,
SO, TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS.