Artificial Intelligence is no Threat to Analytics Jobs
August 21, 2013
As the fields of artificial intelligence and big data analytics continue to grow greater every year, the idea that their paths will converge is not totally farfetched. While this has some worried, we are not among them after reading a recent Extreme Tech article, “Artificial Intelligence Has the Verbal Skills of a Four-Year-Old, Still No Common Sense.”
According to the story:
An artificial intelligence like >this one might have access to a lot of data, but it can’t draw on it to make rational judgements by leveraging implicit facts — things that we all know, but are so obvious we wouldn’t even consider them relevant information. ConceptNet might know that water freezes at 32 degrees, but it doesn’t know how to get from that concept to the idea that ice is cold. This is basically common sense — humans (even children) have it and computers don’t.
This should come as a comfort for anyone working in the analytics field. There is still a strong need for human intellect to interpret all the raw data floating around out there. As this article recently pointed out, right now is actually the best time to start networking in the analytics field. We totally agree.
Patrick Roland, August 21, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
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