True AI doesn’t exist yet…it’s augmented intelligence
Mark Bishop
Fractional CMO based in London specialising in Cyber, Fintech, IoT, Business Analytics, AI
Read this article by Nick Ismail on AI. The author states that AI doesn't exist yet. I couldn't agree with this more.
In my opinion what we call AI today is a series of manmade algorithms, or set of instructions (albeit sometimes complex). We are a long way from the point where machines think and behave like humans (assuming that is the definition of intelligence). An autonomous car is not AI, likewise with speech recognition. Some of the marketers would have us believe that any piece of computer code, that performs a function is AI.
Utter tosh.
Here's an example of a recent AI news article (you will find thousands more like this each day):
"Researchers in Australia in partnership with the University of Toronto have developed an algorithm capable of writing poetry. Far from your generic rhymes, this AI actually follows the rules, taking metre into account as it weaves its words. The AI is good. Really good. And it’s even capable of tricking humans into thinking that its poems were penned by a man instead of a machine."
... it goes on:
"According to the researchers, the AI was trained extensively on the rules it needed to follow to craft an acceptable poem. It was fed nearly 3,000 sonnets as training, and the algorithm tore them apart to teach itself how the words worked with each other. Once the bot was brought up to speed it was tasked with crafting some poems of its own."
(Source: https://bgr.com/2018/08/08/poetry-ai-bot-shakespeare-human-research/)
In my very humble opinion this algorithm that creates poetry is not AI. Much like my coffee machine that follows a set of code produces coffee is not AI.
I developed an excel macro in 2001. It wrote out future dates in a spreadsheet. The "AI" in that macro was incredible. It even had the "intelligence" to recognise a leap year. It's scary that the machine could take over my task of writing out dates!
So what do you think? Does AI exist? Are we hyping sophisticated algorithms and calling them AI? Maybe I'm missing something here (should I question my own intelligence?)
Thanks for reading :)
Co-SENCo/Science Teacher
6 年Agree with this Mark - you would enjoy reading the book 'Average is Over' by Tyler Cowen - there is a chapter which specifically talks about groups of chess players who write algorithms and play other 'AI' supported chess players over the 'net. He says that this is the model of the near future and this assertion is supported by a recent podcast I listened to from the CEO of iRobot who said that AI & robotics will augment the human condition for many decades to come.; think exoskeletons not terminators - at least not yet! :-)