Extra Credit Blog-Surfing the Tsunami AI

At the beginning of the class Artificial intelligence was mentioned by Professor Todd Kelsey but it wasn't til seeing his research that we all knew that it was something that we all need to consider and take seriously. In his article Surfing the Tsunami he talks about three different perspectives.  The first perspective is to Adapt meaning that AI is coming and its better to learn more about it now and be aware of the direction that it is heading. The next perspective is Adopt which means to start incorporating the AI tools and platforms so that when it comes to it one is able to manage AI. The last perspective is Adept which means getting directly involved in AI and learning the coding and how everything works.

AI at this point is moving drastically and it's going to come quicker than expected. In the introduction for his book Todd Kelsey is mentioning how AI  is heading in the direction of many job loss for the next 5 years or so. This is a strong assumption to make because that is what the people  fear is that eventually robots will be taking over peoples jobs. What  I like about this article is the example that is used which is "For example, for a publicly-traded company, when profits are falling and there is pressure to cut expenses to maintain profitability, a company may hide behind the amoral rationale of duty to shareholders, and make whatever decision benefits the shareholders and the stock price". This is so true because then what happens is people end up getting laid off which then increases the stocks. At the end of the day the company has to be worried about the people and society while maintaining their bottom line.



Another valid point that is made in this article is that if in fact AI is going to create job losses there is really nothing we are going to be able to do about it so we almost just have to roll with it and be  to date with our information on it to prepare ourselves. The key takeaway is at some point or another a industry will under go changes of some sort and employees and employers adapt, adopt, and adept those changes and that's what the goal of this article was in my opinion.


For more information on this article check out the link below

http://www.tsunami.ai/introduction