{"id":1408,"date":"2020-07-09T23:36:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T22:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.novodantis.com\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2020-07-28T14:17:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:17:12","slug":"anything-you-can-do-ai-can-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novodantis.com\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"Anything you can do, (A)I can do better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aha! When I said I was aiming to post more regularly,<em> I meant it<\/em> this time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the reason for slow updates here are the length of my posts. So going forward, I may be making them a little snappier. Shorter, less substance, more viewings&#8230; the, uh, Youtube paradigm of content creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh no, nope, wait, that&#8217;s a terrible analogy. I don&#8217;t want to do that at all. And I&#8217;m being unfair to Youtube. Many content creators there are doing a great job of producing longer, more in-depth videos. I mean, I&#8217;m assuming. I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t watch them; they&#8217;re too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>ANYWAY. Where was I? Ah, yes. So as you can tell from my brilliantly witty title, we&#8217;re talking about automation. I&#8217;m really feeling the 2020&#8217;s will be a big decade for automation, because we&#8217;re finally starting to see big real-world applications of some pretty sophisticated algorithms. Artificial Limited Intelligence\u2014that is, focused on solving one problem as opposed to general problem-solving\u2014 is quickly becoming normality. The line between AI and an Algorithm is blurred (and arguably semantic), but under either guise we can do some amazing things: from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.remove.bg\/\">automatically editing out backgrounds of photos<\/a>, to asking a smart speaker such as Amazon Echo\/Alexa to set a reminder. And though we&#8217;re still waiting on those self-driving cars, the mostly-drives-itself kind are already on the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been very positive about automation; I would say I still am. AI has three massive advantages to performing tasks over humans: they are faster, they are less prone to error, and they don&#8217;t have to endure hating doing it. Automation is one of the only prerequisites to all people on Earth having a very high standard of living (the other being stabilisation of population growth). It does get me thinking on a subject that I will be going deeper into in future posts (and has been brewing for many years); that of the struggle between intelligence and mechanisms. More on that later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artificial Intelligence, like so much that is artificial, should not be feared. The important thing is to ensure it is done well. I honestly hope that by the time Alison could get a driver&#8217;s licence, she won&#8217;t need one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then again, if she ends up living in London, probably there already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aha! When I said I was aiming to post more regularly, I meant it this time! Part of the reason for slow updates here are the length of my posts. 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