Can you spot the real AI
Everyone knows that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a big thing and almost every single tech company in the world seems to be riding that hype wave. However, according to Forbes, 99% of these AI companies claims are absolutely false. Such hype wave comes with a whole new world of marketers and scammers using the buzz word with fake AI to trick their potential users into thinking they’re using real autonomous AI. Why? Because it sells.
Useful and autonomous AI implies using a combination of neural networks, machine, transfer, reinforcement and deep learning in production models that are actually taking action on the predictions of the simulations, not just making recommendations and providing insights of what to do (sorry “AI” analytics companies, but if some human needs to actually do what your platform recommends, then that’s not a truly useful, independent and autonomous AI).
Useful Autonomous AI eliminates the need for human intervention only keeps human review process in the loop; it does all the work for humans and takes care of those aforementioned recommendations for them, it doesn’t just provide insights. That’s not to say the predictive technology of those tech companies is bad, I am sure it’s amazing; but it just can’t be considered useful autonomous “AI” per say.
Does any of the tech company guarantee an increase in performance under contract when using their supposed AI? Artificial Intelligence, by definition, must be more efficient than humans at whatever it does. If the company cannot guarantee an increase in efficiency (providing superior results than any other human or software on the market), then it’s not true, useful AI.
Does it navigates through the knowledge and takes autonomous decisions? Or does it just provide some question/answer pairs ? The chatbots claiming to be AI are just fake QnA types with glorified search technology.
Do you need to have many data scientist and data trainer in your organisation, and do lots of data wrangling to make the AI work, along with writing lots of process automation work ? If the answer is 'Yes' , you might as well review AI tech stack or challenge the vendor.
Is it fully transparent and explainable ? can you see the millions of intelligent actions the AI is taking per day? Or is it a black box into which only the company claiming to be using AI can see? If the latter, then chances are you’re being scammed and there’s actually a person doing the stuff they falsely attribute to the supposed AI within that black box
Congratulations, you just became an expert on being able to identify if any given company is using truly useful autonomous AI or fake AI !