{"id":13086,"date":"2016-12-05T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T11:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=13086"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:15:39","slug":"artificial-intelligence-the-new-killer-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/artificial-intelligence-the-new-killer-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence: The New Killer Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Artificial intelligence is gaining traction faster than anybody imagined — quickly knocking down the dominoes of complex tasks that computers have long struggled with.<\/p>\n

For example, in April this year Wired Magazine ran an article explaining why AI still sucked at transcribing speech<\/a>. But just six months later, AI is\u00a0now as good as humans<\/a>\u00a0at listening! (and — scarily — using that audio, Adobe will soon allow you to type in any text and hear it in that person’s voice<\/a>).<\/p>\n

And there have been similarly dramatic advances in other areas. Adding machine learning to Google Translate has\u00a0improved error rates by up to 85%<\/a> since it was introduced a month and a half ago<\/em>!<\/p>\n

“It has improved more in one single leap than in 10 years combined” — Barak Turovsky, product lead for Google Translate<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"google-guess-building-image-ai\"<\/a>The list goes on: Google’s AI can already lip read better than people<\/a>, and the company’s image service is now better than people at recognizing and tagging images<\/a>. Not only can it tell you, say, that an image is of a building — it can even take a good guess at where it’s located and when it was built, based on the architectural style!<\/p>\n

In the business world, AI is becoming the next “killer feature,” poised to do to middle-management what industrial robots did to car manufacturing. Any jobs that involve “repeatable complex decision-making”\u00a0are at risk of being replaced. This includes a lot of the work of professionals such as doctors, lawyers, and accountants — for example, SAP’s next release will include automated invoice-matching<\/a>, backed by machine learning.<\/p>\n

Some experts such as Vinnie Mirchandani are optimistic that while these new technologies will disrupt existing jobs, they will — like all previous technologies since the dawn of time — ultimately create more than enough new jobs to replace\u00a0those that are lost<\/a>.\u00a0Others, such as Martin Ford, are more pessimistic<\/a>, arguing that it may even lead to the collapse of the consumer economy.<\/p>\n

Either way, artificial intelligence and machine learning is quickly being\u00a0embedded in software platforms and applications<\/a>, and becoming an essential part of every organization’s future plans.<\/p>\n

And at\u00a0least one car manufacturer has decided that\u00a0nobody will buy\u00a0self-driving cars that don’t protect the driver, maybe\u00a0even if it has to run over pedestrians<\/a>\u00a0to do so — if that’s not\u00a0a “killer feature,” I don’t know what is!<\/p>\n

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