video interview:"AI is the new electricity!" Electricity transformed countless industries; AI will now do the same. pic.twitter.com/dGFEUMSmVj— Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) May 26, 2016
Andrew Ng: Why Artificial Intelligence Is the New Electricity
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About 100 years ago world was quickly changed by introduction of "portable artificial physical power". It is now being changed again by introduction "portable artificial intelligence"
100 years ago, the main element of this was electricity, in form of AC power lines that can transfer (electric) power on long distances, i.e. Niagara Falls generator can power a electric motor to run a mill hundreds of miles away (and many other things).
www.teslasociety.com/exhibition.htm
Electricity and its Development at Niagara Falls - Pan-American Exposition of 1901 - University at Buffalo Libraries
Rainbow Sunset Over Niagara Falls: Wallpapers13.com
AIs with the computing clouds will produce similar effect on "cognitive tasks"
At least that is the premise of Book: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly.
The Inevitable (book) - Wikipedia
At this stage we may still be in "electric DC" equivalent era,
when artificial cognition can be transported but not very effectively yet.
We need "electric AC" equivalent for AIs.
There is a lot of innovation in cloud computing, from containers,
to GPUs and FPGAs, HTTP2...
Soon enough we may look with nostalgia
to "archaic times" of manual problem solving without AI...
Like we may look now on horse power on historic farms:
Good for education, not effective enough for current market.
Howell Living History Farm
