A lightly edited version of a talk given at St. James Clerkenwell, June 26th 2019
Tonight I’d like to ask two questions:
- Is a Robot going to take your job?
- And what has faith got to do with the future of work?
First of all, what is AI?
AI is computer software that is designed to mimic some of the functions of human intelligence. Right now, it mostly functions like a calculator on steroids. Good at analysis, bad at common sense. AI mostly works for narrow, bounded, analytical problems when you have the data to tell the algorithm what the right answer is for hundreds or thousands of different cases.