If this is what they are planning, then I must warn them that AI is very A and not a lot of I.
I work in the field, developing technologies for autonomous vehicles, robotics, which mainly concerns signal processing, computer vision and machine learning.
Remember how already 100 years ago people thought: "In 50 years we will have house hold robots!". And yet, we still do not have them.
Deep learning neural networks are classifiers with millions of parameters. Training them requires a lot of data to figure out the correct parameters for them to work. It is nothing but an optimization problem. There is no intelligence in it. It is an algorithm; a numerical recipe if you will.
Sure, a lot can be achieved when applying them, but it is simply not going to be enough. We can not replace people anytime soon. Robots have no consciousness. They can not reason. They do not think using language. They do not think at all. Some component is simply missing and we do not yet know exactly what it is, let alone how we could simulate that component in a software environment.
Do not be fooled. AI is 99% marketing and 1% actual technology.
If this is what they are planning, then I must warn them that AI is very A and not a lot of I.
I work in the field, developing technologies for autonomous vehicles, robotics, which mainly concerns signal processing, computer vision and machine learning.
Remember how already 100 years ago people thought: "In 50 years we will have house hold robots!". And yet, we still do not have them.
Deep learning neural networks are classifiers with millions of parameters. Training them requires a lot of data to figure out the correct parameters for them to work. It is nothing but an optimization problem. There is no intelligence in it. It is an algorithm; a numerical recipe if you will.
Sure, a lot can be achieved when applying them, but it is simply not going to be enough. We can not replace people anytime soon. Robots have no consciousness. They can not reason. They do not think using language. They do not think at all. Some component is simply missing and we do not yet know exactly what it is, let alone how we could simulate that component in a software environment.
Do not be fooled. AI is 99% marketing and 1% actual technology.
This comment makes me think of the stories of Roomba type automatic vacuum cleaners that escape off down the road or spread dog poo round the house.