Understanding Animals Can Help Us Make The Most Of Artificial Intelligence - GE Reports

Every day countless headlines emerge from myriad sources across the globe, both warning of dire consequences and promising utopian futures – all thanks to artificial intelligence. AI "is transforming the workplace," writes the Wall Street Journal, while Fortune magazine tells us that we are facing an "AI revolution" that will "change our lives." But we don't really understand what interacting with AI will be like – or what it should be like. It turns out, though, that we already have a concept we can use when we think about AI: it's how we think about animals. As a former animal trainer (albeit briefly) who now studies how people use AI, I know that animals and animal training can teach us quite a lot about how we ought to think about, approach and interact with artificial intelligence, both now and in the future.