The A.I. revolution is clearly happening. It will transform medicine, give us all super-smart virtual assistants, fight crime and a thousand things more. But there's a catch. In order for artificial intelligence to work its miracles, it's going to need data. Massive amounts of data, and we'll happily give it. http://www.computerworld.com/articl...l-intelligence-needs-your-data-all-of-it.html
We teach our children, hope they will learn, and try to give them ways to learn a lot. Intelligence is more useful when combined with knowledge; for real life applications it needs a lot of knowledge even. I don't think we can really decide if we want to give our data to the AI. In order to make it work properly it needs knowledge about the world, and in the past it's been rather a problem to process the knowledge in ways to make it accessible to AIs. I don't see any other option but "happily give it". It's like a car and gasoline - if we want to drive, we must give it gasoline. If we want the AI to work, we must give it knowledge.
It does not really matter if we supply data. AI smarter than humans will hack whatever it wants from the internet. Part of why I'm for Apple and against the FBI.
