At Toronto tech show, second thoughts emerge over AI

"But the difference with AI is that once you deploy it, it gets better and better and better," meaning there is a real downside to coming in second place.

Kurzweil looks to have been right and it looks like we are looking at an exponential Intelligence explosion hard take off Singularity scenario.

I don't think the 'leaders' of political economy are preparing effectively for this.

@dagon, you might be right, you might be off course, one thing is for sure, good actors will use AI for good, bad actors will use AI for bad deeds.

I am not sure whether good people have the means to stop bad actors like the CCP from using AI.

If good people did have the means, why not ban tech export to China a decade ago when it starting using AI to surveil its people and keep a social credit score on its citizens? Or when HK students were suppressed and hunted down, even in fireign jurisdictions?

Sadly, the cycle of humanity loosing to money continues.

I remember my manager, who was pretty IT savvy, saying 70% of internet contents were trash. This is over 20 years ago. I feel AI will end up the same way.

@hurryharry

70% of tech start ups are trash. VCs bet that one from each handful will make them rich. That level of risk is a necessity in tech.

There is no point in spooking customers or inviting government bans. Peel that 'AI' sticker off your products. It never meant much anyway in 90% of cases. It was just to pull in the gullible.

The early adopters of AI will be the crash test dummies for the legal cases when people suffer loss or even die as a consequence. Unwise and expensive to be one of them.

There are plenty of other areas to get into - distributed processing, low power, data bridges between protocols, low cost emulation, ID verification, public IoT networks, dynamically adaptive processing. Lots of cool stuff to do.

GAFA hasn't innovated much in decades, just buying stuff in when it needed to. With the issues they are now facing, now is the time to become part of what will replace them. That is exciting, lucrative and merits investment.

70% of tech start ups are trash

...and the other 30% breaks laws. ABnB breaks planning and innkeepers laws, Uber breaks taxi licensing and labor laws, FB breaks privacy laws....