Artificial Intelligence has become so popular that it now goes by the abbreviation, "AI". In this blog I will give my views on AI.
Xactly what is AT? How is it any different than a simple "recipe". Some person came up with a way to make or do something and wrote it down in the form of a recipe. I think that we all know what that is and how it works. Do you agree that it is a form of AI? How about a recipe that is more complete and tells you how to substitute different ingredients if you are missing some. What if you went one step farther and put the recipe on the computer in the form of a video. In that form, it could show you specific techniques on how to make or perform the function. Isn't the recipe, thus getting more and more flexible to show you how to do some thing?
What if the person who wrote the recipe were able to stand next to you while you followed the recipe? They could show you special tricks or could correct you when you did something wrong or they could give you the OK if you did some thing not in the recipe. What if the person documented their experience they had with you and wrote a simple computer program that showed you all the possibilities of how you could perform the recipe? Are we getting closer to what is being called AI?
Are you starting to see AI from a different perspective? Is it really much different from when us humans invented writing where we could put down on paper what people had been speaking? If you don't know it, but you can do with simple relay circuits every thing that a modern computer can do and we have know how to do all of those things for hundreds of years. What has happened with modern computers is that now we can do the same thing cheaper and faster.
Another thing that has happened is similar to what happened with adding machines of the past. Many people who did not know how to add, multiply or do division where able to operate an adding machine. They could not design an adding machine just like they could not design a computer nor the program withing the computer, but they could operate it. Isn't that exactly what we are talking about with AI?
We have always had a situation where we had a limited number of humans who were able to make tools for people who were able to operate the tools but who could not make the tools themselves/. Historically these two groups were close together, but with the advance in technology the gap between the creators and the users is getting greater. In the limit, it appears to me that their will become less and less a need for the users and a greater need for the creators of the AI.
In the end you can see the social impact and how it will divide society between makers and users to the point that there will be no need or value for users. If you look at the rate of change and the acceleration of it that the end will be sooner than you may think and it may be driven by something as simple and benign as AI.
