FROM THE ARCHIVES OF PRAGPUB MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 2019
It’s Just Artificial Intelligence: The Kobayashi Maru
by Eric Redmond
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Artificial intelligence is not one field, but many. Eric builds a map of the whole complex landscape of AI.
Last month in this series on artificial intelligence, Eric covered the technologies of AI. This month he wraps it up with a look into the dangers and the work to be done.
Despite the promise of artificial intelligence powered by machine learning, and the rapid gains over the past decade, there are a few issues that the industry must hammer out before we can safely coexist with our own personal Rosie the Robot housekeepers. AI is not only complex to implement, but unlike code, it’s not easy to check under the hood and see what’s going on, which makes many industries with tight quality controls nervous. AI rejection…
