Many say that AI is taking away our work at an incredible speed. Will artificial intelligence replace people and create an inevitable global crisis and create unemployment? I don’t think, because humanity can survive and succeed in the real world ... isn’t it? When hunting and gathering were our only needs, the development of agriculture did not mark the end of the world, but only became one of the many bricks of the bulky tower of human evolution. We have adapted and developed. The industrial revolution did not lead to an apocalyptic increase in unemployment. On the contrary, people created more jobs and rethought themselves with the help of technological advances. The advent of the Internet, economics and knowledge has not robbed us of work. On the contrary, each of these innovations made us more productive, and we lost only a few categories of labor. Technology and innovation make our lives easier and help us do our job better. This is exactly what AI has prepared for us. He will make us more effective, in fact, superhuman.
No. 1. AI frees us from repetitive tasks
There are too many repetitive tasks in our work. For example, take a hiring staff. The job of an HR manager is to find suitable specialists for organizations. This role includes personal interaction, during which the recruiter builds relationships with customers and candidates.
That's what eychars spend too much time: sorting resumes (often hundreds or thousands), searching vacancy sites, scheduling appointments and interviews, making phone calls and sending
emails.
AI can easily cope with these repetitive tasks, and it can highlight the best candidates - those who have the greatest chance of success in a particular organization. The liberation of the recruiter from the monotonous tasks will allow him to devote more time to more important work, for example, developing relations with the best candidates and more careful selection.
This is a win-win option!
# 2 AI is not smart enough to be creative
AI can flip through a million psychology textbooks in seconds, and then tell you all the symptoms and treatments for depression. But only a person can consider the state in the face and instantly understand what needs to be said in this particular case.
This is the so-called emotional intelligence, which AI simply does not have. And never will be. Our ability to instantly respond to a problem with creative solutions and empathy is unparalleled and cannot be realized on any computer in the world.
The auto-suggestion feature (a la T9) on your smartphone uses artificial intelligence to predict the next word you want to enter. In the best case, if the AI did not replace your random typo with the name of some Indian dish, it helps you type the message faster. But he is not able to fully take over the communication with a colleague, feeling, understanding and appropriately reacting to human emotions transmitted through the messenger.
Even Google Duplex, which frightened the public with its findings about the need to exterminate humanity, is designed to work in specific cases, such as making an appointment with a hairdresser, booking a table in a restaurant, and planning business for the weekend. Nothing beyond reason.
Artificial intelligence will work and learn only within a given set of limited parameters, if it does not reach a singularity.
Google’s search engine AI, its algorithm, has become a research process. You no longer need to crawl through dusty libraries or know the decimal system. Google’s search bots and algorithms deliver what you need with amazing accuracy. You get more and more suitable query results thanks to the ranking system, without any delays in brainstorming or clumsy logical query strings.
Artificial intelligence makes us faster. More precisely, it gives us the time necessary for creative work, including viewing search results and assimilating information.
# 3 AI allows us to do our job better, making us more humane
Sell, for example. Selling is an art that requires incredible subtlety if you want to succeed. This is the most basic directive of a marketer and it is an integral human function.
Without automation, salespeople spend time qualifying potential customers, sending follow-up letters, and updating customer relationship management (CRM) software instead of focusing on human interaction and building mutual understanding. Those with a natural ability to sell can keep up with the times, but the rest of your team will not be as productive as it could be.
When you add AI to the equation, the job gets easier and your sales staff gets stronger because they now have time to learn and learn from experience.
When we free ourselves from routine work, the world around us slows down. We have more time to develop strategies, interact with customers and optimize our processes to increase productivity and get a better return on investment.
#4. AI creates new industries and jobs
Who could have predicted that Facebook, using a special breed of social phobia, called social media marketers, would create a $ 31 billion industry using memes?
Jobs in social networks did not exist some 10 years ago. Today, admins of popular groups earn good amounts on a par with the best IT workers and engineers.
Also let me tell you a story from the eighteenth century when Jenny's spinning wheel was invented.
Spinning mill workers began to worry greatly about their future. After the spinning wheel, Jenny took on the main difficulties of their profession, which led to a simplification of the process of thread production and, consequently, a drop in textile prices.
The cotton spinners were so afraid of losing their jobs that they broke into the inventor's house and crashed his cars. However, today we have cheap and mass fabric, which has become the locomotive for the new era of the textile industry. And all thanks to the foundation that was laid by the spinning mill, despite the fear of ordinary workers.
Given the rising standard of living that we got after this technological transition, tell us, shouldn't we be just as excited about the development of AI? Increased productivity will lead to the fact that the industry will flourish as we could not even imagine!
Here is what artificial intelligence is already doing:
- AI software improves the care of older people as demographic trends prevail in the care industry.
- Robots with artificial intelligence support take on black and monotonous work.
- AI manages money more efficiently using the best investment strategies (trading robots).
- It serves and protects citizens by providing effective and impartial law enforcement.
- New devices and new technologies give rise to new industries and jobs, some of which are incomprehensible and incomprehensible to a simple person today, and tomorrow will become an everyday reality.
#5. AI cannot solve major health problems
You probably saw the film “Black Panther”, where artificial intelligence, fed by vibranium, could cure a person who was shot in the spine in just one day. Thus, it can be assumed that modern AI is able to create a cure for AIDS in the coming years, and then it can even learn to completely destroy cancer cells. But, unfortunately, for now this is just fantastic.
There are highly intelligent artificial intelligence systems, such as IBM Watson, that can memorize a trillion diseases and recommend treatment. But decades will pass before the AI finds a cure for cancer or old age, because it lacks the creativity and spontaneity that human genius possesses.
We will not have lightning-fast discoveries in the field of healthcare or ready-made solutions to global problems only thanks to AI. Testing, experimenting, peer review, and many millions of lines of code stand in the way of discovery. All this is done by people. And therefore, progress will be slow.
But what AI is already doing significantly speeds up this process. With artificial intelligence, extremely detailed models and simulations of human cells and other physiological components are possible. These models will take experiments to a new level and save years of research.
AI will help us work faster, eliminate impractical solutions and narrow down the range of promising alternatives. We can reduce mortality and prolong human life!
Artificial intelligence: what awaits us in the future?
One of the most interesting facts about AI is that, unlike static code, it is programmed to learn. This means that it can develop on its own. Many experts predict that someday in the very near future, AI will reach a singularity.
At the singularity stage, AI will become smarter than humans. Perhaps he can even think, essentially evolving into a new kind. If this fiction really comes out of science fiction films and becomes a reality, the human race will face a serious problem. Ethics experts are constantly arguing about what to do about it.
None of this, however, cancels out the benefits of explosive artificial intelligence innovations taking place in Silicon Valley and around the world.
IBM Watson tried his hand in several positions, including the work of a professional sports scout, scout, as well as a medical diagnostician. But he achieved greater success in chess, becoming the world champion! Each of these scenarios was a narrow design that allowed the computer to demonstrate its potential with brute and straightforward force!
There is even an artificial intelligence technology that solves complex problems in financial services. One Hong Kong company appointed an algorithm as its director :-) AI bots also appeared in the literary industry, creating interesting works in poetry and prose.
But don’t worry - most likely we can sit quietly and look to the future, where people and artificial intelligence work together to solve global problems in real time.
Artificial Intelligence: Legal Implications and the Protection of Intellectual Property (IP)
AI is a revolutionary innovation that is not limited to the technology and business sectors. Business begins to realize that there are many difficult situations ahead, especially related to the legal consequences of artificial intelligence.
AI pioneers must protect their intellectual property.
Regulation has become a big problem, especially after incidents such as the fatal accident in Arizona involving a Uber unmanned vehicle. Laws revolve around the fault of the driver, but how do you prove the guilt when no one drives a car? The government is already working to introduce legislation regulating unmanned vehicles, while at the same time trying not to suppress innovation.
Intellectual property protection issues are especially relevant for managers and top managers of companies that design and develop artificial intelligence systems. Today's technology race is competitive, and intellectual property is its most valuable commodity. The smartphone industry, for example, has shown us that the interval between the opening of innovations and their appropriation by competitors can be only a few months, partly because many AI developments are open source.
Companies must have a patent strategy to protect their innovations if they want to maintain market dominance - or evolve to become the dominant player in their markets - with the development of AI gaining so much attention.
Managers can no longer afford to get by with minimal knowledge of IP protection, while disruptive technologies are constantly evolving and adapting. Targeted IP protection strategies must be ready and implemented before an innovation enters the market. This is the only way to get ahead of the wave of investments in artificial intelligence.
Patents, copyrights and trademarks provide legal protection. But it can be difficult to determine which type provides the best protection for every investment in an AI business.
The big question is: how does your company differentiate itself with your technology? Is your innovation a new source code, improved technical functionality, a strong brand, or something completely different?
Startups often use open source software (OSS), without the burden of legacy systems, to quickly develop AI innovations. Open source licenses vary in their effect on intellectual property protection strategies.
Some licenses protect your innovations with patents, but limit you from applying them. Most of them do not allow you to restrict other startups or existing companies to use the source code that you develop on top of OSS.
Even after you have decided on the form of protection, its passage can pose serious problems. So, obtaining a patent in the United States usually takes 3 to 5 years. While a patent will protect innovation for 20 years, any advantage that a company has may be lost while they wait for the patent. In Silicon Valley, three years is an eternity! It is better if the term for approval of a patent is less than a year.
The process of obtaining a patent can be confusing and can potentially take years. The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2014 raises a big question mark about the possibility that AI decisions might be patented. This is because the court does not consider “abstract ideas”, such as “incorporeal algorithms and formulas,” as being eligible for a trademark.
In addition, a very real question about ownership of original works will arise in the near future when AI will help with innovation. Animal rights activists have recently sued the photographer, claiming that the copyright for the selfie taken on his camera by the monkey belongs to the monkey, not to him. The future patent struggle will not be between humans and monkeys, but between humans and AI.
Modern artificial intelligence methods teach bots to evolve through machine learning. This means that they can evolve to such an extent that they will produce a result radically different from their source code, and in some cases even rewrite their own code. When this happens, who will own the copyright, code author or bot? What to do if the improvement is patentable? Dont clear.
The best way to resolve these legal and IP issues is to contact a strategic lawyer at an early stage of the innovation process. An expert can help you develop a robust intellectual property protection strategy for your company.
Businesses, including startups, can no longer afford to put off the fight for authorship. The first person to file a patent application will own this innovation.
Trends say that the dominance in AI will be determined not by those who can quickly innovate, but by those who can protect their IP in the first place.
Output
Artificial intelligence can actually reduce some jobs, but it will also create new ones, and the work performed by people will be more meaningful, useful and full. AI will make us not just better, but, we repeat, it’s quite capable of turning us into superhumans.
We will go forward and develop, because this is what we do. And we do it well ;-)