Week 9: Benefits and Risks of AI - MKTG 348

Artificial intelligence is progressing rapidly. We have not spent very much time on the risks of AI. With every creation there is some sort of risk. It is important to research AI safety. There are two scenarios reachers are worries about.

1: AI become programmed to do something devastating.

2: AI is programmed to do something to benefit us, but instead develops a destructive method for achieving it's goal.

According to Max Tegmark, President of the Future of Life Institute, "Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, and many other big names in science and technology have recently expressed concern in the media and via open letters about the risks posed by AI, joined by many leading AI researchers."

Yes, it is cool to see all the advancements AI is making, but we must look at both sides. (Benefits and Risks). Anything is possible when it comes to the world of AI. It's time to do some serious research about the risks associated with AI. If people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk are concerned about it, maybe we should be too.

Link to Max Tegmark's article: https://futureoflife.org/background/benefits-risks-of-artificial-intelligence/

Week 8: Surfing The Tsunami - MKTG 348

Chapter 8 of Surfing The Tsunami discusses people and perspectives. There are many people in this world that are in the artificial intelligence community. One man in particular stood out to me and that is Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto.

Geoffrey Hinton has a PhD in artificial intelligene and works for Google. Todd Kelsey was able to to ask Hinton, "What inspired you originally to pursue artificial intelligence? What fuels your ongoing interest?". What really stood out to me was Hinton's reply. "I want to know how the brain works. I believe that the best way to understand it is to try to build one". (Surfing The Tsunami) 

That quote is very important, well I'm my opinion. My interpretation of this quote is, the best way to understand AI is to try play around with it. I know I've mentioned this in previous posts, but it is important to read articles and research people in the AI community. Honestly, at first AI is hard to understand but the deeper you dig the more and more you'll learn. 

Week 6: Surfing The Tsunami chapter 5 - MKTG 348

If you can't tell I love Artificial Intelligence. I am constantly exploring and seeing whats being created and changed. In chapter 5 of Surfing The Tsunami you will learn about the Adopt stage of AI. I am crossing the bridge from adapting to AI to adopting to AI. In my last post I talked about my recent discovery of Google AI predicting Heart Disease. I have been continuously looking at AI articles to get my feet wet. But now after reading chapter 5 its time to move forward and adopt to AI.

To adopt to AI it would be a good idea to look into programs such as DataRobot to explore and play around. DataRobot is automated machine learning. There are six different types of things that DataRobot works for; data science apprentices, business analysts, data scientists, executives, software engineers and IT professionals.

Here's a look inside the business analysts tab:

Playing around with tools like DataRobot is an awesome way to adopt to AI and get your feet wet. Its easy to use too. If you are in the adopt stage I highly recommend checking out DataRobot. And continue to explore different AI tools. Get to know whats out there. Read as many articles as you can, you never know what AI will take over next.

Week #6 Google AI to predict Heart Disease - MKTG 348

Today I came across an interesting article Google Artificial Intelligence to Predict Heart Disease. I read that and was intrigued. Google is applying its AI to be able to predict how likely it is for a patient to have a heart attack or a stroke. That's pretty awesome in my opinion. The Google AI bots will be able to make these predictions by examining the patients retina. Below is a diagram that shows where in the eye the retina is. 

Looking at the diagram above you would think that the Google AI inspection would be very invasive, but it is not. It's non invasive and very accurate. Not only can the Google AI predict heart disease it can also predict; age, blood pressure and if a person smokes. I think that is just amazing.  According to fox news, "Google used models based on data from 284,335 patients.  It was also able to deduce a persons age, blood pressure, and whether they smoke.The findings were published in the in Nature Biomedical Engineering, an online medical journal, says that such a method is as accurate as predicting cardiovascular disease through more invasive measures that involve sticking a needle in a patient's arm." 

This advacemwnt is still in developing stages. According to Lily Peng, "“The caveat to this is that it’s early, (and) we trained this on a small data set,” says Google’s Lily Peng, a doctor and lead researcher on the project. “We think that the accuracy of this prediction will go up a little bit more as we kind of get more comprehensive data. Discovering that we could do this is a good first step. But we need to validate.”" Peng hopes future scientist will continue to research this and build on top of what is already known.

Link to the news article: http://www.fox10tv.com/story/37541916/google-artificial-intelligence-to-predict-heart-disease 

Link to USA today's article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/02/19/google-ai-can-predict-heart-disease-looking-pictures-retina/344547002/ 

Week 4: Surfing the Tsunami chapter 3 - MKTG 348

AI has had a great impact on the job market already. And it will continue to impact the job market as time goes on. Lets look at banks as an example. My bank used to have only tellers. Tellers are real life people who you need talk to in order to get you money. Over the years my bank got ATMs. (Automated teller machines) The ATMs are robots that help with banking needs.

At first my bank only had two ATMs, that was about 3 years ago. Now My bank has four brand new ATMs and guess what? The drive up window is permanently closed. There are tellers for the outside of the bank. Any one who wants to talk to a real person must go inside. Once you go inside you'll notice that there are not many people. There has been a drastic change at this bank over the last five years. Mostly do to AI, and it doesn't stop there. If you're not convinced go check out chapter three of Surfing the Tsunami after reading that chapter I'm sure your opinions will change. 

Tellers are not the only people who's jobs are at risk by AI. The list goes on and on. Reading all these articles about AI makes me think, Is AI going to effect our future generations job market?

Week #3 What's happening in the world of AI? - MKTG 348

The world of artificial intelligence is constantly evolving and is all around us. Have you ever seen a Tesla? Guess what, Tesla uses artificial intelligence in all of their cars. The AI in their cars can be used to drive the car to and from destinations hands free.

The picture above is a woman using autopilot in her tesla. The unique thing about Tesla autopilot is that the AI system takes everything into account while on the road. Traffic, speed limit and even the weather. If you think thats crazy you'll never believe what I'm going to say next. Tesla is working on a project that involve their cars AI being able to predict your destination. BOOM.  That is nuts. How would that even be possible? Honestly, I have no idea. I found a link that talks about the possibility of Tesla's AI to be able to read minds. Check it out here: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tesla-ai-prediction/

Artificial Intelligence can be found in many more places other than cars. Many hospitals have some sort of AI. Google is also creating AI robots to assist with everyday surgery. Check out this link to see more: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/google-johnson-and-johnson-surgical-robots/

The picture above is a possibility of what the surgical robots could look like. I have mixed feelings about a robot doing surgery on me. The surgery could go smoothly and may be faster than normal, or the AI could mess up big time and end up killing me. Who knows. I am all for AI to grow and develop. Sooner or later it is going to effect just about every job field.