Smart Software: The White House and Its Artificial Intelligence Lean Back
October 13, 2016
I am not sure how influential White House reports are. But I scanned “Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence” looking for what’s ahead. I did not notice any reference to the Sillycon Valley outfits and some cohorts getting together to chat about keeping artificial intelligence docile like digital bunny rabbits. I did not see a reference to IBM Watson’s WOW conference (If you don’t know about this, check out the five day event here. For $2,395 you will be so much smarter.) Nor did the report inject any factoids about Deep Mind and the London underground tunnel into my flawed gray matter.
You can, for now, download a copy of the report from this link. US government content can move around, so keep in mind that you may have to do some searching if the link does not work. Hopefully your research will be less of a challenge than looking for some Library of Congress reports.
For me, the take away is that standards are needed. Perhaps the folks from IBM, Facebook, and Google plus some smart academic outfits have already volunteered to provide wizards to work on the standards? How will those standards apply to companies operating in nation states other than the US? Will smart software advance more rapidly than the work on standards? Will companies deploying “non standard” smart software make changes to match the standards? The report does not address these issues and it is a nice write up which contains footnotes too like a high school research paper.
Alexa, play Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb.”
Stephen E Arnold, October 13, 2016
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