Even the best systems marketed as “AI” nowadays can’t reason, by design.
The whole promise of targeted advertising, as well as all those cyberpunk tropes about all-knowing machines (and corporations and governments running them) is based on the fundamental requirement of machine being capable of logic and reason, not just generating statistically-probable statements. Which simply wasn’t a thing when this Big Data meme started, and still not a thing even today. So best they can do is playing statistics until it indicates the Holy Grail of modern corporate existence - sacred Growth. And, yes, it does work, but without any reason or logic to it, just blindly, like evolution. And thing about evolution is that it ends up with weird solutions, like our own retinas.
I think too many managers had consumed way too much sci-fi. Which is not a bad thing, but one gotta keep understanding fiction is a fiction, until all underlying assumptions are entirely satisfied (and it’s the magic of fiction to bring a possible future by just hand-waving and suspending the disbelief).
And because this grew way too much, there is no stopping it. The idea will support itself, corporations preaching it as hard as they can to survive, as all their valuation is in the promise of Big Data making Big Money.
Even the best systems marketed as “AI” nowadays can’t reason, by design.
The whole promise of targeted advertising, as well as all those cyberpunk tropes about all-knowing machines (and corporations and governments running them) is based on the fundamental requirement of machine being capable of logic and reason, not just generating statistically-probable statements. Which simply wasn’t a thing when this Big Data meme started, and still not a thing even today. So best they can do is playing statistics until it indicates the Holy Grail of modern corporate existence - sacred Growth. And, yes, it does work, but without any reason or logic to it, just blindly, like evolution. And thing about evolution is that it ends up with weird solutions, like our own retinas.
I think too many managers had consumed way too much sci-fi. Which is not a bad thing, but one gotta keep understanding fiction is a fiction, until all underlying assumptions are entirely satisfied (and it’s the magic of fiction to bring a possible future by just hand-waving and suspending the disbelief).
And because this grew way too much, there is no stopping it. The idea will support itself, corporations preaching it as hard as they can to survive, as all their valuation is in the promise of Big Data making Big Money.