{"id":1291,"date":"2016-07-03T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/2016\/07\/03\/ai-apple-and-google-by-benedict-evans\/"},"modified":"2016-07-03T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T08:30:00","slug":"ai-apple-and-google-by-benedict-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/ai-apple-and-google-by-benedict-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, Apple and Google (by Benedict Evans)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Machine learning offers the promise<\/em> that a lot of very large and very boring analyses of data can be automated – not just running the search, but working out what the search should be to find the result you want. <\/div>\n
That is, the eye-catching demos of speech interfaces or image recognition are just the most visible demos of the underlying techniques, but those have much broader applications – you can also apply them to a keyboard, a music recommendation system, a network security model or a self-driving car. Maybe. <\/div>\n
\u2026<\/div>\n
I think a foundational point here is Eric Raymond’s <\/span>rule<\/a> that a computer should ‘never ask the user for any information that it can autodetect, copy, or deduce’ – especially, here, deduce. \u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
And that’s what any ‘AI’ short of HAL 9000 really is – the automatic pilot, the automatic spell checker, the automatic hardware configuration, the automatic image search or voice recogniser, the automatic restaurant-booker or cab-caller… They’re all clerical work your computer doesn’t make you do anymore, because it gained the intelligence, artificially, to do them for you. <\/div>\n
This takes me to Apple.  \u2026     AI, Apple and Google \u2014 Benedict Evans<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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