Blog Post #10 - The Age of AI

 The Age and Era of Artificial Intelligence. 

Computers and artificial intelligence are smarter than you. Feel okay about that? Probably not. Now how about if you were to hear that no matter your opinion, artificial intelligence is taking over industrial businesses and cutting jobs. Probably worse, right? Well in the new age of AI, there is a huge tech war. This tech war is basically consisting of countries trying to be the first to be the ones that can improve and invent full artificial intelligence. The creation of artificial intelligence is longed for in businesses because of the efficiency and speed that they can produce, but with that, there is a lack of jobs. Yet, some argue that new jobs will be developed in different aspects. There is also a statement along the lines worrying about women's roles because most of the jobs overrepresented by women are most likely to be automated. 

Even big formats such as like social media and Google are the ones that are looking at us, we are not just looking at them. The algorithms that those website and internet browsers have are able to use certain Algorithms to be able to predict what you are going to look up next, and Google's use of these kind of surveillances started pretty early. The original start of Google used an unofficial motto "Don't be evil",  to reiterate their idea of showing that advertising does not bode well to them. The founders decided they needed to save their company when numbers were down and they started using something called "digital exhaust" in order to use data logs and surplus data to create predictions as to what a person would want to click on next, bringing their numbers back up. Of course they did not want people to find this out, I mean, who would? In that case they used behavioral prediction to take the uncertainty out of life. Facebook even came up an experiment in order to test out what they had the power to do. They put an "I Voted" sticker out for those to be able to click and add to their profile to see whether or not it would urge those to vote, and their numbers said that it urge about 340,000 people to go to the polls. Things like "Hey Google" are also now new surveillance that have been able to enter almost all rooms in a house. These new ways of surveillance will be able to not only recognize who is speaking and be able to pick up on the little things such as moods and your livelihood. This raises the question on how surveillance can help, but also, is it getting too far?