Artificial Intelligence: Let the Claims and Counter Claims Begin
June 3, 2016
Amazon has artificial intelligence. More important, Amazon has a gizmo which people seem to be buying. Google has artificial intelligence. The Google I/O conference was a litany of smart software choir members. Now Facebook is, according to “Facebook Is Using ‘Near-Human’ AI to Muscle in on Google’s Home Turf,” going to make life tough for the Alphabet kids.
Well, wouldn’t you know it. IBM is in the game as well. “IBM Is building Cognitive AI to Impact Every Decision Made,” which I assume means decisions at Amazon, Facebook, Google, and the other outfits in the artificial intelligence hyperbole parade.
I like the “every.”
According to the write up:
“If it’s digital, it’ll be cognitive,” explained IBM CEO Ginny Rometty in a wide-ranging discussion with Recode’s Kara Swisher on Wednesday during the annual Code Conference.
Another sweeping categorical affirmative. The logic might get a first year philosophy major in trouble, but this is the wild and crazy world of the really, really Big Thing. Big Data and predictive analytics, visualization, and the other faux Big Things have to step aside.
The write up quotes IBM’s chief cognitive humanoid as saying:
You aren’t going to stop it…the trend is gonna keep moving,” she said, noting that she thinks repetitive task jobs will take a hit, but new jobs in areas like data will emerge.As for AI being evil, Rometty said, “What really matters is who teaches these things. Watson is taught. It’s about the data you use and who is teaching.” She added that, in the case of health care, Watson is being taught by the world’s greatest oncologists.
First, Amazon has a consumer product with AI. Second, I thought the Weather Channel delivered [a] data useful to DCGS and [b] new professionals who have more applicable skills than the deadwood terminated by IBM.
Wrong again. I like the “every.”
Stephen E Arnold, June 3, 2016
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