Lately, I have become fascinated with - almost obsessed with - the concept of AI, Artificial Intelligence. I have been reading book after book on it, the mechanics of the human mind, etc. And just like you never notice how many station wagons there are on the road until you buy a station wagon, I never realized how pervasive AI is becoming until I started reading so much about it and increasing my awareness and knowledge of it.
Just today I came across this article, about the implementation of AI to help provide advice to wealthy clients:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-07/ubs-turns-to-artificial-intelligence-to-advise-wealthy-clients.html
Of course it shouldn't be any surprise that instead of being used to figure out a cure for cancer, or solve the economic problems of the worlds poor, it is being used to help wealthy people get wealthier.
But what is of greater interest to me is that it is being used at all, and for something so broad and invasive - gathering all KINDS of data about people. Makes one wonder - if it were to attain some sense of true self-awareness or consciousness, how might it use all that data to its own means...???
Things that make you go "hmmmm....."
Just today I came across this article, about the implementation of AI to help provide advice to wealthy clients:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-07/ubs-turns-to-artificial-intelligence-to-advise-wealthy-clients.html
Of course it shouldn't be any surprise that instead of being used to figure out a cure for cancer, or solve the economic problems of the worlds poor, it is being used to help wealthy people get wealthier.
But what is of greater interest to me is that it is being used at all, and for something so broad and invasive - gathering all KINDS of data about people. Makes one wonder - if it were to attain some sense of true self-awareness or consciousness, how might it use all that data to its own means...???
Things that make you go "hmmmm....."
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