When I work on AI today and looking at it’s fundamental principles; it is not that much different from the work that I and another team mate many years ago did around developing a RT Proactive Environmental Response System. Sure there are some differences between processors, etc. However, the principles are the same when you consider some of the extremely complex algorithms that we had to develop to ensure that our system could proactively interrupt patterns and proactively act on it’s own analysis. We did have a way to override any system actions.
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Q: What do you think about the impact of AI and ML on the job market in 10, 20, 50 years from now?
A:I think predicting anything over longer than a 10 year horizon is very difficult. But there are a few thoughts I have on this question.