Interest in AI

Interest in AI

1. Philosophical

   • Challenging
     • General intelligence not found yet
     • Largely experimental
   • Beautiful
     • Some difficult problems become very easy
     • Relatively low complexity (wrt capability)
   • Source of answers
     • Is it infinitely scalable?
     • Is the brain just another computer?

2. Economical

   • Good for industries
     • Error reduction
     • Optimized solutions
     • Waste reduction
       • Save user time (feature)
       • Save development time (cost saver)
   • Good for global growth
     • Efficient allocation of resources
     • Efficient storage and retrieval of information
     • Reduction of entropy
   • Good for technological progress
     • Automation of engineering
     • Enhancement of scientific discovery process