Chapter 8

Raising Them Right: AI and the Internet of Big Things

Alec Shuldiner    Autodesk, Inc, San Francisco, CA, United States

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to grow more capable by increasing in size and complexity. With their workings in many cases already difficult to comprehend, this points to an important tradeoff: if we want really useful AI we may have to forego a detailed understanding of how it works in at least some cases. A really useful Internet of Everything (IoE), in turn, requires really useful AI. So, as we embed that AI into the IoE, and, in particular, into the intelligent infrastructure that will make up what I term the “Internet of Big Things,” we are creating a global operating system that is in ...

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