Automatic smiles
I don't really class this as a smile:
What happened to this?
Ok, we were on holiday and there was likely wine involved in the second picture. The conversation was likely different too. Today's was about AI systems in management and how it could affect decision making. Sound familiar? Sounds like something I might be talking about except, it wasn't, it was her, my wife talking about AI. You might be saying that it shouldn't be a big deal but, you don't know her.
She is planning her thesis which will be on communication in corporations and got the idea from somewhere that since Artificial Intelligence is going to start creeping into the arena at an increasing rate, it would be an interesting and relevant topic to do her masters thesis on. I agree, it is going to increasingly encroach upon our decision making and affect all kinds of positions we hold.
One thing is that an AI never need make perfect decisions, it only needs to make better decisions than us and this is quite easily achieved through data collection. If there are two employees doing the same tasks and their actions, decisions and habits are tracked and connected to future results, combining the two and doing what works and eliminating what doesn't immediately improves the process. Even though this might have other implications and result in new errors, they too will feed back in and adjust AI behaviour again.
Let's say there are 10 employees doing the same thing and one makes a mistake that needs correcting. Training needs to be developed that can correct it, it needs to overcome human resistance, deployed, tested and it takes time for it to sink in. If an AI needs to make a change, it makes it immediately and will not make the same mistake again. If this is applied to all mistakes, even though it might have a very steep learning curve to begin with, it will very quickly advance.
How does this affect management decision making in the future? What management? Even if jobs require people to perform them, management level is just a communication function that makes decisions and distributes the information across the network. In time, humans are going to be inefficient at most of this meaning that much of the middle management level positions become bloatware and unnecessary. There will likely still be strategy makers but they will be informed by the AI that makes far fewer calculation errors with much more fine-grained information than any average manager could.
Average is an important concept here because that is essentially what the AI is competing with in the early phases of adoption, the average. But, it doesn't have to learn from the average, it can model the best in the same way neuro-linguistic programming methods attempt to improve skills through modelling the best of the best. The difference is that the AI is able to adopt new practices immediately upon making the decision it needs to.
This changes the way companies operate at fundamental levels because companies themselves are designed to continually reach for efficiency of practice to maximize their returns for shareholders. They are not dependent nor attached to any individual within the organisation and take a all are expendable approach. This is the perfect environment for a base level AI as it doesn't have to consider the social and community implications of its decision making as long as it stays within the guidelines of whatever laws it is governed by.
What effects will this have on how communities and all dependents on corporations including governments function is yet to be seen but perhaps, it is not as dystopic as I think it could be. Maybe, we can utilize these tools to better manage base tasks and maximize our own opportunities to have space to do more of the things we enjoy in this world like, going to breakfast with our partners.
With automation, will more genuine smiles return?
Taraz
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AI will upgrade operations in corporations. However, I Think it will replace some jobs.
If we talk about industrial processes, automation is necessary ... but if we talk about everyday life, automation takes us away from the genuine, for example, the automatic smile ... is not entirely genuine.
I was so sad in 1997, when the computer Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in their rematch. Kasparov had beaten Deep Blue in 1996, and it looked like an intelligent person could outsmart a computer: a victory for humanity's flexibility.
But no, Kasparov's flexible moves from 1996 were just programmed into Deep Blue, and the computer beat the smartest chess player who ever lived in 1997.
This doesn't bring a smile to my face, even though AI is a triumph for humanity in a way, since we built it. But the problem is that humanity itself cannot be reprogrammed overnight, like Deep Blue. We evolved to take everyday active measures to provide for ourselves and our families, and that programming when disrupted, ends in depression and dysfunction. And we haven't got millions of years to reprogram ourselves.
In AI and Deep Blue, we built a ticket to sadness for huge swathes of the population. I suppose the solution will be to trick ourselves that our hobbies are productive, like the way we do when sportsmen and women compete. Realistically, they are doing nothing useful, but we all feel they are, and we all tune in.
I think the future is the Matrix: where hobbies are played competitively like sports, where we all enter a collective delusion that we are doing something useful. Those who step out of the Matrix will get depressed. :)
You can now write my fiction stories :D
I think much the same. Humans are designed to seek purpose even if what we do is meaningless. This is a very hackable system and makes us do some very horrendous acts. If we really looked into our lives, most of it is just busy work.
It's not all that easy - it's difficult for an ai to realize when it made a mistake, and changing its behavior isn't done with just a small change in the code.
What if it used key stroke decisions in an office to learn how individuals worked, tracked results and then just become very good at data entry :)
Also, would the resulting technology make more mistakes than a human on average? Would accidents on the road go down even if occasionally a turkey interrupted the system and caused it to malfunction? Even if it can't correct itself (yet) it could potentially then try a new approach and tell all other cars to ignore turkeys on the road. There might be lots of dead turkeys but alive humans :D
I wonder how long until they are able to rewrite themselves effectively. I find it all pretty fascinating to think about where it cold take us and I swing between heaven and hell ;)
I was just thinking. Tesla needs a blood type sensor in the bumper bars and if it comes back human, dial emergency... drive away faster... ;D
you have a very beautiful smile, let him stay forever!
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