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Is AI settled enough that today's state-of-the-art is a stable foundation that can be reliably built upon... or are revolutionary changes just around the corner

• hyperpallium 8y ago
  > intention to "support democracy," ... raise awareness about the opportunities and risks of AI ... where they want their government to invest. > "That’s how society works — if enough people say they don’t like it, then we regulate it,” Agree, democracy needs uninformed voters. But the above was just the origin. Now the course seems more like encouraging people to see applications of AI in their regular work. Like pure vs applied maths. Agree: technology transfer/commercialization of AI will be the richest industry the world has ever seen. [ Though it's a bit like applications of computers [funfact: many software ideas were initally called AI... like how subjects moved from philosophy to science when they got actual facts]. Although computers are an "industry", their applications are considered vertical, i.e. as part of the industry they are applied to. Same thing happened to physics. So AI applications won't be "an industry", but in every industry. ] Another question is whether the application best starts from the AI end or the application end. You need both, but at this early stage, it's still requires an intertwined "integrated" collaboration. I don't think we're yet at the point where you just add magic AI pixie dust to a problem. But it can't hurt getting people introduced to it and thinking about it; and the democratic point remains true.