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I’m a CTO. AI still needs your human expertise | Madhu Shashanka

The Guardian Australia - Technology ·
I’m a CTO. AI still needs your human expertise | Madhu Shashanka

AI is increasingly getting good at doing some tasks, but it can never replace human workers’ judgment Autonomous cars, which may be the safest we have built, keep getting easily avoidable parking tickets.

While Waymos crash far less often than human drivers over tens of millions of miles, they’re still terrible at performing basic tasks – keeping out of disabled parking spots and tow-away zones, or steering clear of a church garage during Sunday service, according to the Wall Street Journal .

That is the state of AI today: impressively capable at something complex, yet embarrassingly clumsy at something easy.

And it has implications for what work will remain human and what will be automated by AI.

Madhu Shashanka is co-founder, chief scientist and chief technology officer at Concentric AI, a data security software company Continue reading...

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