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TECHNOLOGY
Utopia or Armageddon?
Big Data Meets AI
What do you get when you cross a colossal and complex amount of data with computing technology so advanced that it can outperform humans in almost everything? Depends on who you ask.
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“You can have data without information, but you cannot have infor- mation without data,” says computer programmer and science fiction writer Daniel Keys Moran. And that’s a problem throughout the world right now: the so-called “big data” monolith. Modern technol-
ogies have succeeded in gathering so much data about so many topics that no human can efficiently analyze and interpret it all.
As a result, people are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to address this predicament. Because computers can read and analyze data exponen- tially faster than humans, the AI approach is tailor made to sift through terabytes of data and deliver the valuable information upon which sound decisions can be made.
So why the alarm bells surrounding the fusion of big data and artificial intelligence? AI has been identified as “our biggest existential threat” by one of the greatest minds on the planet: Elon Musk. And Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most admired scientists, told the BBC, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
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