How Intelligent Is Artificial Intelligence?
This recent article in Tech Crunch perfectly captures one of the greatest paradoxes of our modern age. Despite the incredible leaps we’ve made in AI technology, computers will always come up short interpreting the data they crunch for us. We’re the ones who still have to do the heavy lifting of learning and predicting and thinking. It is we humans who possess the capacity not only to learn from the past, but to imagine the future. This is an important insight to remember as we continue to develop ever more sophisticated technologies to aid our personal and professional lives.
Naturally, there is some debate on this topic, which has actually divided big data analytics experts into two camps. The first camp is led by “machine learning” and “predictive analytics” experts who argue that in the future computers will possess real artificial intelligence, capable of bringing nuance and predictive reasoning to even the most complex issues. The second camp argues that only human analysts can be trusted to form reliable conclusions based on the vast amounts of data collected and stored by these machines that we’ve invented.
As the founder and CEO of a tech platform, this issue is one I confront on an almost daily basis. And my feelings here are strong and clear. We are NOT building these tools for machines to use, we’re building them for US. After all, it’s human lives — in and out of the workplace — we’re striving to improve.
But what do you think? How intelligent can artificial intelligence become?
