I've got something here we say "has AI built in". 🆒 That said, it has basically just one job (one person could do it if they had unlimited hours and could think and type really fast). And, for this one job, I estimate its accuracy to be about 90 percent. :eek:
So, I basically have a B+ level "high school student intern" with extremely quick typing skills who works long hours cheap 😃 ... but it's not human, it's software.
The problem is the 10% of the time that it's wrong --- it creates a good bit of work for the rest of us, who only want to work about 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, have other responsibilities besides tending to that system, and would like to be making more money than we are, etc., etc.
On the other hand, large companies have been "pushing AI" for some time now ... supposedly we can let it make healthcare decisions, talk to it and believe what it says, let it drive our cars and let it order stuff from Amazon using our credit cards.
(I talk to Cleverbot sometimes ... I really don't think it's that clever. But maybe it is like talking to a HS student ... more than half of what it says seems irrelevant to the conversation. :queasy🙂
After playing with it ... after trying to program it ... I kind of wonder if I want to trust high-level responsibilities to software that's less than completely accurate all the time. But the counter-argument there is that people aren't always completely accurate either (and some of them are quite a bit worse than B+, I guess you'd say ...)
What do you think? Is artificial intelligence possible ... practical ... useful? How big does a company have to be to implement it well? What's the best AI out there right now? Have you ever tried something "AI-ish"?
