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by trabant00
1253 days ago
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I have a question: if current AI can or will shortly be able to replace or significantly augment knowledge workers, why would any company that posses such tech make it available for the public or other companies? Keeping it private, secret even, would allow taking over entire domains like IT, media, law consulting, etc and that would generate unimaginable wealth. |
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Could be asking the wrong question. In AI we gave up in the 80s on top down lets write an expert system and now we're trying bottom up. What if we're asking the wrong question? People of a scientific analytical bent like to think they think in a scientific analytical bent, but most of the time they actually rehash old fads or do primate dominance rituals. As such making an AI that solves problems might not be what anyone wants. Take for example, ohms law, a very useful mathmatical construct; why hasn't it utterly revolutionized womens fashion? Turns out women's fashion has very little overlap with ohms law. Perhaps the "craft" of knowledge work is less analytical than people want to think and as such a perfect analytical tool might be of minimal use. Surely you can't argue that a pocket calculator app on a phone is not analytical, but it hasn't revolutionized much of anything either despite its remarkable analytical power; the world was built with slide rules, then CAD/CAM FEM simulation with minimal time in between and as such the calculator doesn't matter much.