Are We Ready?
“Are We Ready?” – a cartoon that illustrates how AI/ML is advancing at such a pace, but we might not have all the unintended consequences worked out yet.
Geoffrey Hinton, the acclaimed Godfather of AI, recently remarked, “the idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that.
I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”
Boosters of AI often talk about how it has the potential to increase the productivity of the economy and could improve people’s lives; however, it needs to be managed to deliver on this promise.
Future societies have the potential to be more divided by people who have access to the compounding benefits of AI and those that do not.
Calcifying social mobility in developed countries and making it harder for developing nations to catch-up.
Potential ways to address this is to ‘democratize’ access to AI, like what Amazon’s data center-as-a-service model provides for access to cloud computing.
Also, by leveraging AI to improve our education system, we can deliver results that increase the opportunities for social mobility.
For example, Knowji, an AI-education company designed for language learners, which tracks each student’s progress and can predict words that students are likely to forget.
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