Let's focus AI on solving the right kinds of problems

Greg Mori is research director at Borealis AI's Vancouver research centre and director of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. Depending which forecast you subscribe to, the global market value for artificial intelligence is projected to reach anywhere between US$36.8-billion and US$1.2-trillion by 2025. This for a series of technologies that only reached mainstream consciousness a few years ago. At the vanguard of this push are the tech giants that have seen explosive growth thanks to the most lucrative applications of this technology: entertainment and advertising. The result of these investments has been phenomenal changes in our daily consumption of media.