Hi Billy, On Sep 15, 2014, at 9:43 AM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > The unlocking of AI ultimately allows this Cambrian Explosion to finally find > the light of day and enables a dynamic new world to emerge. As your trusted > assistant becomes more and more capable as thousands of developers join the > marketplace, it brings scale and breadth to something that AI has aspired to > for decades. It scales usefulness.
I actually agree with this. The key differences between *this* version of AI -- and the sci-fi future we were promised decades ago -- is that: a) it is driven by Big Data, not clever algorithms b) it is about assisting humans, not replacing them. The differences may seem subtle, but they are crucial to why what we now call AI is becoming useful. This kind of AI holds a lot of promise for helping humanity, as long as we realize that: a) It only works if you have the right data b) These machines are really just extremely clever search engines The people I respect the most talk about this as "Intelligence Augmentation" instead of AI. This isn't about making smarter machines, it is about using machines to make *us* smarter. -- Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
