<story><title>Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)</title><url>https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klenwell</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The problem had to do not just with data analysis per se, but with what database researchers call “provenance” — broadly, where did data arise, what inferences were drawn from the data, and how relevant are those inferences to the present situation? While a trained human might be able to work all of this out on a case-by-case basis, the issue was that of designing a planetary-scale medical system that could do this without the need for such detailed human oversight.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a data scientist and I&amp;#x27;ve never encountered that term &amp;quot;provenance&amp;quot; before but I&amp;#x27;ve encountered the problem he talks about in the wild here and there and have searched for a good way to describe it. His ultrasound example is a great, chilling, example of it.&lt;p&gt;I also like the term &amp;quot;Intelligence Augmentation&amp;quot; (IA). I&amp;#x27;ve worked for a couple companies who liberally sprinkled the term AI in their marketing content. I always rolled my eyes when I came across it or it came up in say a job interview. What we were really doing, more practically and valuably, was this: IA through II (Intelligent Infrastructure), where the Intelligent Infrastructure was little more than a web view on a database that was previously obscured or somewhat arbitrarily constrained to one or two users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agency</author><text>The IA terminology brings to mind the classic &amp;quot;Augmenting Human Intellect&amp;quot;[1] essay by Doug Engelbart (famous for giving &amp;quot;The Mother of all Demos&amp;quot;[2])&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dougengelbart.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;view&amp;#x2F;138&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dougengelbart.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;view&amp;#x2F;138&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Mother_of_All_Demos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Mother_of_All_Demos&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)</title><url>https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klenwell</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The problem had to do not just with data analysis per se, but with what database researchers call “provenance” — broadly, where did data arise, what inferences were drawn from the data, and how relevant are those inferences to the present situation? While a trained human might be able to work all of this out on a case-by-case basis, the issue was that of designing a planetary-scale medical system that could do this without the need for such detailed human oversight.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a data scientist and I&amp;#x27;ve never encountered that term &amp;quot;provenance&amp;quot; before but I&amp;#x27;ve encountered the problem he talks about in the wild here and there and have searched for a good way to describe it. His ultrasound example is a great, chilling, example of it.&lt;p&gt;I also like the term &amp;quot;Intelligence Augmentation&amp;quot; (IA). I&amp;#x27;ve worked for a couple companies who liberally sprinkled the term AI in their marketing content. I always rolled my eyes when I came across it or it came up in say a job interview. What we were really doing, more practically and valuably, was this: IA through II (Intelligent Infrastructure), where the Intelligent Infrastructure was little more than a web view on a database that was previously obscured or somewhat arbitrarily constrained to one or two users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>Provenance is an idea that shows up in multiple fields.  I first encountered it in discussions of archeology.  But then it showed up in, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ralfj.de&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;provenance.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ralfj.de&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;provenance.html&lt;/a&gt; discussing how improper handling of pointer provenance can cause code to get miscompiled.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Provenance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Provenance&lt;/a&gt; gives more on the term and the way it shows up.</text></comment>