LEADERSHIP in various domains . We believe that everything is an AI problem ultimately . Anywhere you have a decision cycle you can AI enable it . My hope is we can make the creation of AI systems easier .
One of the major discussion points around AI is the question of ethics . Where do you stand on that ? For me , there ’ s an ethical question around technology generally so I don ’ t think it ’ s specifically all about AI . A great example is setting your credit score , which does not have any AI involvement but it ’ s still something we don ’ t know or understand . What happens to our private data when we navigate the web ? Often AI is not involved in exploiting it , but we don ’ t understand it so , of course , there are ethics involved there and every day we hear about how they have not been observed .
My general sense is that the ethics of technology are very important and are lagging because technology is advancing at such a rapid pace . It ’ s our collective responsibility . It ’ s not just a question for AI scientists and practitioners but humanity as a whole to pay more attention to ethics and the use of technology . By virtue of that , if we solve these problems we won ’ t have any issue with AI either .
Finally , there have been some very prominent and outspoken critics of AI who fear the potential capability of the technology you ’ re talking about . There have been accusations that perhaps , given the rapid rate of development within AI in particular , that we ’ ll find ourselves in a dystopian futuristic scenario that will too easily spiral out of control .
There are many other application areas of AI to be explored . For example , there ’ s healthcare and agriculture , where we ’ ve done some interesting research work , and I think those are the areas we should focus on and talk about . Some of these discussions around AI ‘ taking over ’ and singularity are just noise that is unhelpful because it ’ s irrelevant . It also tends to come from people who don ’ t understand the state of the technology and how far away we actually are from some of these science fiction outcomes .
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