Creating and developing artificial intelligence is anything but easy. The companies that have tackled it (Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and to a lesser extent Apple) have all faced the same problem. AIs need information to progress, but also to stay up to date.
So there are millions of pieces of data going back and forth between servers around the world and those of the AI. We must therefore imagine dozens of people, working night and day sending data, to “feed” an artificial intelligence that is never satisfied. A representation of the barrel of the Danaids in the light of our 21st century.
Job-killing AI: is it quite the opposite?
As is often the case with technical progress, the general public tends to have jobs threatened by the arrival of a new invention. In the past, agricultural machinery replaced men who worked in the fields. But this loss of employment was more than compensated by the creation of other professions, starting with the engineer in charge of designing these machines, the worker who will manufacture them, the salesperson who will come to sell them, including the specialist repairer.
Artificial intelligence should not escape this universal rule of technical progress. If it threatens many jobs, even several million in the long term, it also creates tons of them. “Feeding” an AI is a full-time job and a real profession of the future.
Centralize knowledge
The big challenge for companies that want to use artificial intelligence in the future is therefore to succeed in centralizing a company’s information. This grouping of data is essential so that “modular” artificial intelligence can learn everything there is to know about a company when it arrives within its walls.
Artificial intelligence could then serve as a chatbot for the after-sales service department or even make strategic proposals for the future of the company. But in order for these answers to be as clear as possible, the data that enters the machine must be just as clear.
A real “digital housekeeping” challenge that could well take years. As for the “creators” of these artificial intelligences, they are also looking for ever more data. The slightest piece of new information is another step ahead of the competition. While dozens of different artificial intelligence models are emerging, becoming the one that will explode in the eyes of the general public is essential.
