A Former Search Wizard Explains Why Artificial Intelligence May Be a Bit of a Challenge
February 5, 2020
Artificial intelligence is the next evolution of digital technology and experts predict we are going to rely on AI as much as the Internet. While AI is amazing, many projects built around AI fail to deliver the promised results. Louis Monier, the Chief Scientist at Node, one of the founders of Altavista, and headed Airbnb’s AI Lab, spoke with Forbes about his opinions on AI in the interview: “The Little-Acknowledged Truth About AI—According To The Founder Of Altavista,” DarkCyber wants to mention that Monier worked at the Google, which, for DarkCyber, is an important factoid.
Monier remembered that when AI first premiered and was integrated into many projects such as chatbots, automated translations, self-driving cards, and even search engines the potential for it was limitless. However, AI, like many new technologies, has issues:
“Unfortunately, AI’s promise has been obstructed by a glass ceiling of sorts, whereby only those with sufficient monetary and human resources are granted entry to the exclusive club. There is a widespread belief that, for a company to realistically reap rewards, it needs a full-fledged lab, replete with Ph.D. students and top data scientists, access to massive amount of proprietary data, as well as large capital expenditures. Even with these resources, AI is laden with obstacles. Today’s data scientists, for example, typically waste 80% of their time cleaning and preparing data so that it is usable.”
Monier explained that AI is only as good as the data used to train and design it. Most companies have subpar data ranging from incomplete to incorrect. If companies make decisions based on AI results felt the garbage data, then they will not flourish.
AI does have the potential to change every industry and field, but the technology is still new and needs to become more standard operating procedure like a Windows OS. Once AI is embedded in software. That means good news.
Optimism is good. Search has benefited, right?
Whitney Grace, February 5, 2020
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