Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Outsmart Complex Knowledge Work - Lene Pettersen, 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems that perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making or translation. More recently, AI has often revolved around the use of algorithms. An algorithm is a set of instructions that a computer can execute. Owing to such advanced technologies, farmers today can get watering assistance to make production more efficient; flu epidemics can be predicted, thereby enabling better medical preparation; intelligent surgical robotics can assist doctors; and, in Norway, a more balanced gender representation in the public media landscape is possible when AI tracks how much airtime is given to females on the Norwegian news programme'Dagsnytt 18'. These are merely a few examples of areas that benefit from AI and robot technology. Other less positive examples of AI include efforts to build applications, such as a'gaydar', which is an algorithm that researchers claim will reveal a person's sexual orientation; facial recognition systems that are biased towards white males, like Google's deep-learning algorithm, which consequently classified a picture of a black woman as a gorilla; or China's social credit system, whereby the Chinese government uses AI and big data as a tool to socially control its citizens.