Re: Artifical Intelligence...
There is no qualitative difference between these new AI and ML technologies and the washing-machine-like technologies that have preceded them.
I'm not sure that's the case. Whilst I am the last one to ascribe AI to magical thinking, there have been well documented cases where - for neural networks in particular - the end result has no clearly defined path that even the creators of the device can follow.
I'm thinking in particular of the experiment where a neural net was tasked to design an circuit to discriminate between audio tones using multiple iterations of circuit redesign using FPGAs.
The resulting, (working) circuit had a number of components which were not electrically connected to the rest of the circuit, but whose removal stopped it working.
This non-intuitive and unpredictable result cannot be compared to the well-defined, well-understood mechanisms of washing machines and other such devices.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
