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Thank you for sharing your insights.

To me, the qualifier “artificial” in AI is inappropriate. AI is intelligence, just like any other intelligence.

Therefore the more relevant question in my mind is what we want to use this intelligence for?

If we deploy AI without thinking about our purpose, it is no different than letting a drunk person drive a car.

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Sorry this is a little long but one of my favorite topics.

I enjoy your writing about risk as it relates to AI. I especially enjoy the analogies to real life. I continue to believe most of the fanfare around AI at this point is sorely misplaced. I believe there are some a-grade challenges ahead though. The focus continues on consumer-facing "write a school essay" or "write a thank you letter". These happen to be the edge of the shallow water where the inquisitive are dipping their toes and reporting on twitter what happened.

While far from sexy, the closest think to ML in the consumer space is the now well recognized capacity of Gmail to block spam. I think when people migrate to GMail they are struck by its innate capabiities to manage an Inbox far beyond what a person can do on their own. It is a weird thing we all take for granted. The amount of compute, insight, and ML required to manage about 40% of the world's email traffic is a feat much more impressive than writing a middle school essay. This in a nutshell is why Apple finds a large subset of their users on their "superior platform" not being able to get along with all of these ML-charged products like Gmail and Gmaps for example. The converse is not true, there is no one beating a path to their door to please let me use Apple Mail

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Does AI have ideas?, are human ideas only based on information?, or creativity can be a real source of new ideas.

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