{"id":1071,"date":"2016-05-09T19:06:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2016-05-09T19:06:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:06:20","slug":"i-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"I Robot ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"AI\"<\/a>Students at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently learned that the ‘Teacher’s Assistant’ they had been reacting with all Semester was actually a robot !<\/p>\n

‘Jill’ powered by IBM’s Watson analytics system helped undergraduate students with an online artificial intelligence course.<\/p>\n

‘I thought I was talking to a real person’ confessed one student whilst another was ‘gobsmacked’<\/p>\n

This raises a number of ethical issues around the use of A.I – should we be informed whether we are talking to a ‘robot or a human being.<\/p>\n

This also begs the question whether A.I systems could be said to have passed the ‘Turing Test’ and essentially be indestinguishable from a Human Being.<\/p>\n

A.I Technology is progressing at breakneck speed & has profound implications for all kinds of services such as banking, insurance, customer service etc etc – indeed any industry which relies on person to person communication will be revolutionised by the pace of Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n

This will inevitably lead to massive job losses in these industries but will also create many alternative careers in Engineering & Technology Development.<\/p>\n

There is little doubt, though, that those highly skilled & highly paid roles will not be populated by the same staff who used to work in the call centre leaving another dilemma for Society.<\/p>\n

chris@amberhill.biz<\/p>\n

www.amberhill-associates.com<\/p>\n

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