Smart Machines are Our Allies against Dumb Machines - DZone IoT

The trend is clearly visible: Sensors, and actuators, together with computation, memory and communication capabilities, are making all the objects around us smarter and smarter. Too many times, whether we call them robots or AIs, the trend is depicted in menacing tones, represented in the dystopian futures preferred by Hollywood movies, and shape the gut reactions of policymakers eager to please the reactionary impulses of their electorates. But smart machines are our allies, and the war is not against them but against the dumb machines that allow us to use them badly. More than a million people each year are killed by the dumbest of all machines--the car. Fifty million each year are disabled at various degrees, many permanently.