Thursday, January 24, 2019

Technology is Becoming like Biology, and this is Driving People Crazy

This is seen most clearly in the case of Artificial Intelligence (AI) an umbrella term for many software techniques - that may, or may not be related. But have attracted considerable funding, since they are a new way of doing things, and solving problems.

One branch of this is Machine Learning, that does solve some practical problems - such as how many items to stock on grocery shelves.

In any case, it involves the integration of what used to be many separate interests. And this is what is driving people crazy. They had protected themselves by hiding their expertise in different Silos. And AI is breaking them down.

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