Secrecy is the underlying mistake that makes every innovation go wrong in Michael Crichton novels and films! If AI happens in the open, then errors and flaws may be discovered in time… perhaps by other, wary AIs!
I thought the best place to advance the AI mission is at Baidu.
It’s much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil.
The AI technology will keep you out of harm’s way. That is why we believe in an AI car that drives for you.
Smart CEOs should be thinking about AI and its impact on their respective business.
There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced – sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.
Governments like China and the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in AI and see it as a competitive advantage.
It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries.
The impending destruction of jobs due to automation and AI technologies is definitely increasing the need for – and speed at which – we have to implement big solutions, such as a universal basic income.
A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research.
I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei’s ‘Sunflower Seeds’ at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
AI is creating tremendous economic value today.
I’m not yet convinced that we will face an unemployment problem created by AI. There will certainly be some occupations eliminated – drivers of vehicles, many production jobs, etc. Whether this creates mass unemployment depends on how quickly this happens. If it happens overnight, it will be a huge disruption.
I think that AI will lead to a low cost and better quality life for millions of people. Like electricity, it’s a possibility to build a wonderful society. Also, right now, I don’t see a clear path for AI to surpass human-level intelligence.
Any movie that deals with an AI computer voice stands in the long, long shadow of ‘2001.’
Making the AI better in a video game is not like making the AI better in, say, a chess game. Making it better in terms of acting ability – we’re basically improving its acting so that the user can have more fun.
The biggest ethical challenge AI is facing is jobs. You have to reskill your workforce not just to create a wealthier society but a fairer one. A lot of call centre jobs will go away, and a radiologist’s job will be transformed.
I do think there should be some regulations on AI.
Only by developing a deeper understanding of AI systems as they act in the world can we ensure that this new infrastructure never turns toxic.
I’m super excited about health care; I’m super excited about education – major industries where AI can play a big role.
We are focusing on four vertical markets – utilities, public sector, large enterprises, and transportation. And, we are building a software business as well that includes analytics, security, IOT platforms, and AI.
AI will impact every industry on Earth, including manufacturing, agriculture, health care, and more.
I became interested in AI in high school because I read ‘Goedel, Escher, Bach,’ a book by Douglas Hofstader. He showed how all their work in some ways fit together, and he talked about artificial intelligence. I thought ‘Wow, this is what I want to be doing.’
I spent a lot of time wondering about the future. I am curious: when we have AI, and it becomes more mainstream, how is that going to affect the way we communicate with each other?
AI is neither good nor evil. It’s a tool. It’s a technology for us to use.
Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it’s still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.
While introducing AI into the government will save money through optimizing processes, it should also be deployed to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.
‘Sunspring,’ the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it’s worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.
I am part of the World Economic Forum Global Council on Robotics and AI, and we spend a fair amount of our time together as a group discussing ethics, best practices, and the like.
And I think the greatest danger that AI poses isn’t so much these anthropomorphic beings who look like us and are beguiling are going to fool us. It’s the fact that a intelligence without a body or corporeal form will fool us into trusting it with data, which we seem to think is… it has no repercussions.
There are many valid concerns about AI, from its impact on jobs to its uses in autonomous weapons systems and even to the potential risk of superintelligence.
I do worry that organizations and even governments who own AI and data will have a competitive advantage and power, and those who don’t will be left behind.
AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it’s always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.
I think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address.
Machine learning is the most popular course for people from India. There is a window of time when India can embrace and capture a large fraction of the AI opportunity. But it will not remain open for ever.
As one of the leaders in the world for AI, I feel tremendous excitement and responsibility to create the most awesome and benevolent technology for society and to educate the most awesome and benevolent technologists – that’s my calling.
I’ve been to so many manufacturing plants. I’ve yet to walk into one where I did not think AI solutions wouldn’t help.
I co-founded Affectiva with Professor Rosalind W. Picard when we spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009. I acted as Chief Technology and Science Officer for several years until becoming CEO mid-2016, one of a handful of female CEOs in the AI space.
I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways.
AIs are only as good as the data they are trained on. And while many of the tech giants working on AI, like Google and Facebook, have open-sourced some of their algorithms, they hold back most of their data.
There’s a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It’s because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.
Automation is no longer just a problem for those working in manufacturing. Physical labor was replaced by robots; mental labor is going to be replaced by AI and software.
I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.’ My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It’s a tool that’s going to empower us.
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
I’m trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with machines and collaborate with them.
It’s hard for me to speculate about what motivates somebody like Stephen Hawking or Elon Musk to talk so extensively about AI. I’d have to guess that talking about black holes gets boring after awhile – it’s a slowly developing topic.
A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.
I think the world will just be better if AI is helping us. It will reduce the cost of goods, giving us good education, changing the way we run hospitals and the health-care system – there’s just a long list of things.
Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.
The thing that’s going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.
AI is going to be extremely beneficial, and already is, to the field of cybersecurity. It’s also going to be beneficial to criminals.
One of the things Baidu did well early on was to create an internal platform that made it possible for any engineer to apply deep learning to whatever application they wanted to, including applications that AI researchers like me would never have thought of.
Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software.
AI is witnessing an early innings in India. It has a thoughtful government, and India can race ahead if it chooses to.
