Four Rules To Guide Expectations Of Artificial Intelligence

Is the world too chaotic for any technology to control? Is technology revealing that things are even more chaotic and uncontrollable than first thought? Artificial intelligence, machine learning and related technologies may be underscoring a realization Albert Einstein had many decades ago: "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." When it comes to employing the latest analytics in enterprises and beyond, even the best technology -- predictive algorithms, artificial intelligence -- can't explain, and even reveal, the complexity and interactions that shape events and trends. That's the word from Harvard University's David Weinberger who explains, in his latest book, how AI, big data, science and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: things are more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see.