Is Artificial Intelligence artificial? | NATION & WORLD - WJLA

Amina Zoë, News Editor observes, Some of the latest tech initiatives focus on centralizing resources in a way, which further allow the top companies in the world access and ability to collect human activity around the clock. 

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Pattern recognition, speech recognition, and object recognition are all components of data-based information used to create algorithms, and subsequently used in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our daily activities are being chronicled by way of the devices we use to improve our way of life. Therefore, we have to ask ourselves is Artificial Intelligence (really) artificial?

Apple CarPlay, Amazon Cashless grocery stores, and Samsung smartphone monitor extension, are just a few ways the tech industry continues to consolidate soft and hardware into multipurpose resources. The top companies in the world are solving our problems. While doing so, they are also collecting, storing, and reusing data.

We are seeing the most supported technology eliminating single-serve science. The most efficient tools are sticking around. Single task devices are becoming extinct over shorter time span. This also means more individuals are using one device, one operating system, and/or one cloud account for all task...

According to Forbes.com, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google are listed among the top ten best examples of AI in practice. Each of these companies also have ways of collecting data of ‘human intelligence’ apart from what is listed as AI endeavors. Privacy, questions about how social media networks are sharing our data, and how we might control what they know about us have been conversation for the past few years, although most people probably are not thinking companies care more about how they might use our data for AI rather than using our data for potentially self incriminating means. The more important angle should be reviewing why these companies are so enthusiastic about collecting our data even at its own expense.
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Source: WJLA