IDG Blog | Cloud-Based Ai Is A Game Changer That Does Not Have To Be Impatient

The White House presides over a conference on future artificial intelligence. Executives from 38 companies, including Intel, Oracle, Ford, Boeing, MasterCard, Microsoft and Accenture, will attend a one-day conference.

Why is this happening now? According to Gartner, AI will create 230 jobs by 2020 while eliminating 1.8 million jobs. The subject of the discussion is said to include not only related research support measures, but also methods of making best use of AI in medical and transportation industries. And there is the most threatening theme. It is a strategy to formalize federal policies and regulations.

The Internet is a catalyst. AI is difficult to implement at reasonable cost if it cannot be purchased on an hourly basis from cloud service providers such as Google, AWS and Microsoft. In addition, AI is now regarded as something of a change in the way we change our lives, change jobs, and think about technology in the minds of the public.

I do not think any of the anticipated dramatic AI transformations will see fruit in the next few years. After all, we think that any new technology will become a so-called "game changer." Even if it's true, it actually takes years to change the game. At that time, sudden change today is just common sense and every day.

In fact, technology has changed our jobs for the past 150 years, and using AI as a tool will not be much different from the wave of automation that makes factories and farms go back to their buttons. Someday unmanned cars and trucks will replace motorists and businesses will exclude people from jobs, but most of these people will notice signs of disaster and smart people will soon turn to jobs that are not likely to be automated. A few years of warning will follow, and nothing will happen so quickly.

Now let's think about AI regulation. When the government tries to regulate technology innovation, it also has an unexpected ripple effect. Government bureaucrats are not experts in the field of technology, nor do they know how technology is evolving. This combination cannot be a recipe for success. 

What actually happens is that the law is quickly outdated and unnecessarily confusing enough for lawyers to try to figure it out. And technology quickly finds ways to avoid such laws.

If so, there is no evil genius to make Skynet and slaughter everyone, why should we regulate it? The plot of a wicked genius is great in movies, but it does not happen in reality.

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