Age of AI Blog Post #5

After watching In the Age of AI Full Documentary, I have gained a greater perspective and now have a different opinion about what AI has done for our generation. 

Jerry Kaplan defines Artificial Intelligence as a form of automation and automation is a substitution of capital for labor.

Jerry Kaplan 

As I was listening to and watching this documentary, I was shocked as I learned about the tasks that AI can accomplish. From packaging machines to grocery store checkout scanners, to robots, or even personal assistants, AI has and will continue to change the way that we live as humans. 

The Robot Arm

Jobs within data analysis, finance, and Human Resources, are also used differently because of Artificial Intelligence. AI allows tasks to be done ten times quicker by automating processes, improvement of risk management, and advanced data analysis. 

Along with jobs, AI has boosted productivity across other areas of life such as Smart Homes, with AI-powered devices like the thermostat, controlling lights, and security systems. Another thing that AI has affected is transportation with finding faster routes and helping efficiency with gas.

I also learned about the power that AI has through the internet. We think that we are searching the internet, but we are wrong, the internet is searching us. 

Everywhere we go, is data being tracked. This is a benefit in which the technology and the world will adapt to you, but but the danger is that networks and companies do not have the same goals as you, so the impact of the adaption, could be negative. 

Harry Cripps tells us that he is scared for just more than our country but for the globe. "If we continue to go in an automated system, what are we going to do? 

Kai-Fu Lee says that AI is the ultimate tool of wealth creation. Think about the massive data that Facebook has and how it can target an ad so well that you may eventually buy something. 

Kai-Fu Lee

He continues by saying that AI is a set of tools that helps you maximize an objective function, and that objection will simply be, how can I make more money? 

AI allows the wealthy to get wealthier, and the poorer to get poorer. 

Lastly, Shoshana Zuboff talks about surveillance capitalism. She defines it as a private human experience claimed as a free source of raw materials fabricated into predictions of human behavior. 

So what does this have to do with AI?

AI systems are constantly collecting data and analyzing data. AI identifies our patterns, preferences, and behaviors. With this in mind, the exploitation of each individual's information causes surveillance capitalism to grow which allows data on us as individuals to be more precise. 

Shoshana Zuboff