MKTG 348 Surfing The Tsunami Week 3
What is AI up to these days? AI is constantly evolving and todays most news worthy part is self driving cars. These cars or things are smart to the point where they can drive themselves as the passenger can take over when they feel the need for speed. My biggest concern with this part of AI is what is the ethics behind the cost of a life. Lets say a self driving car is put into a situation where they will have to be in an accident and the other car has a mother and 3 kids. What way will the car respond injure the passenger of their car or hit the mother in a spot that puts the children in danger but saves the passenger.
When I think of artificial intelligence I think of IBM's Watson winning Jeopardy against the two best players in the games history. IBM was able to create a computer that could answer verbal questions and recite back an answer with precise accuracy. With this technology already out there its only a matter of time until the computers start doing jobs at a higher level than one physical employee. The first job that will probably diminish are jobs that were sent over seas like call centers. The process of replacing these jobs with new technology is know as "No shoring" which basically means working without location. This process will increase the efficient of the company and will decrease labor costs. The other positive aspect of artificial intelligence that I see as a benefit is that there will be less opinion based reasoning and more correct solutions. Going back to the Jeopardy example Ken and Brad routinely answer questions they think are correct wrong, when Watson answered he had a much higher success rate. The only questions that he answered incorrect where questions written in a form that the computer had problems understanding. Also using artificial intelligence the computers will not have opinions on what companies they are doing business with they will only look at the data provided. I feel like in the past business environment decisions were clouded by personal connections and favors rather than data based reasoning.
When I think of artificial intelligence I think of IBM's Watson winning Jeopardy against the two best players in the games history. IBM was able to create a computer that could answer verbal questions and recite back an answer with precise accuracy. With this technology already out there its only a matter of time until the computers start doing jobs at a higher level than one physical employee. The first job that will probably diminish are jobs that were sent over seas like call centers. The process of replacing these jobs with new technology is know as "No shoring" which basically means working without location. This process will increase the efficient of the company and will decrease labor costs. The other positive aspect of artificial intelligence that I see as a benefit is that there will be less opinion based reasoning and more correct solutions. Going back to the Jeopardy example Ken and Brad routinely answer questions they think are correct wrong, when Watson answered he had a much higher success rate. The only questions that he answered incorrect where questions written in a form that the computer had problems understanding. Also using artificial intelligence the computers will not have opinions on what companies they are doing business with they will only look at the data provided. I feel like in the past business environment decisions were clouded by personal connections and favors rather than data based reasoning.
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