Humans are working artificial intelligence programs (AI) into business, government and daily life. Like with any new tool or technology, we start to see the initial technology flaws the more we are exposed to it. So we are now in the midst of a moment where AI is under the microscope, with policy makers picking apart AI contributions and demanding that AI meet high standards of performance and social consequence.
This is a healthy process. Society should always examine impactful tools and push for the tools to work better. However, I fear in the drive to make AI better, the perfect may become the enemy of the good. Important AI solutions may be shunted aside because they do not meet all the social requirements placed on them, and our society will suffer without important, if imperfect, AI tools.
As frequently noted here and elsewhere, humans have not produced – and seem far from producing – general AI that can handle many and varied tasks. Instead, we are beginning to develop some excellent specific AIs – computer instructions that are 1000 times better than trained medical specialists at spotting lung cancer on x-rays or incalculably better than any human at predicting weather patterns 7-10 days out.
Continue reading: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/how-perfect-will-ai-need-to-be
This is a healthy process. Society should always examine impactful tools and push for the tools to work better. However, I fear in the drive to make AI better, the perfect may become the enemy of the good. Important AI solutions may be shunted aside because they do not meet all the social requirements placed on them, and our society will suffer without important, if imperfect, AI tools.
As frequently noted here and elsewhere, humans have not produced – and seem far from producing – general AI that can handle many and varied tasks. Instead, we are beginning to develop some excellent specific AIs – computer instructions that are 1000 times better than trained medical specialists at spotting lung cancer on x-rays or incalculably better than any human at predicting weather patterns 7-10 days out.
Continue reading: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/how-perfect-will-ai-need-to-be
