How artificial intelligence is disrupting industries across the board

Diana Greene, former CEO of Google Cloud and co-founder of VMWare, joins CNBC's Becky Quick at the MIT Schwarzman College Of Computing Launch event to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Some of the topics the discussion touches on include how A.I. will affect the cloud computing space, the A.I. race with China, concerns over data privacy and what the government's role is in funding technological advancements.

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[kornpop]

When will people figure out that the best place for AI is to replace the mindless managers and CEO's who make more bad desicions thatn good?
Can we code a A I bot not to be greedy, ignorant, and perverted?

[davidjacobson]

AI was already being hyped and marketed for government funding at MIT in the 1960s. All of the expectations at that time proved to be wrong. Data analytics also has a long history in the companies who have made a big business out of managing customer data. That includes IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft. The results produced by that effort have been somewhat slow to match industry hype. Many of the current AI ideas did originate at MIT and Stanford. But, they were largely kept alive through decades in the wilderness at the University of Toronto, the University of Montreal, and NYU. The change over the last decade is the result of increasing computer power. Exploitation of AI technology is a global effort. Microsoft China has been a substantial contributor. Google's tensorflow is an open source software effort. Industry leaders have launched a large research effort. The idea that more funding is required for research is ridiculous. It has become clear that there are at least a core set of content and processes where deep learning style AI techniques will have a very large impact. But, it is going to take decades for that impact to mature. Healthcare is certainly a major one. Certainly issues around maintaining digitized patient data in standardized formats and making large collections of that data available for supervised learning will be of very large importance. It is quite possible that AI techniques will also be significant for military weapons. There is nothing new about technology being important for weapons. The modern American academic world is largely a result of the perceptions developed during World War II of the importance of technology for weapons. Large parts of American computing technology emerged from companies that made their business as defense contractors. No doubt, many of them are still in business today and working on AI related technology. Americans imagined that they would be the only ones to possess nuclear weapons. The pain that came from the reality of Russia's competence in developing nuclear weapons produced a decade of Joe McCarthy. America still is the home of many very strong technology companies. But, the United States does not have a monopoly on technology. Nor do many of the people working in science and technology want to live in a world run by American supremacists who think they have some kind of mission to impose their values, their way of life, and their social dominance on the whole world.

[ThinkHuman]

Very interesting and good to see more attention about this on the news, as AI is an inescapable fact of our future. If anyone is interested i have made tons of videos talking about AI as well!