 what does ai offer humankind  what does ai offer humankind hemraj fri 10172025 510 what does ai offer humankind doug picirillo sort by trending latest doug pricillo trending latest image this article is one of a series on the subject of artificial intelligence in mainstream enterprise computing information technology in general and ai in particular serve as assistants to humankind in problemsolving and value creation humans can articulate problems and propose solutions beyond their capacity to effectively execute the solution that is some solutions require computational capacity that exceeds human capacity in scale complexity or both it is important to distinguish between scale and complexity humans are more than capable of adding a column of numbers machines are better at scale making short work of calculating totals and averages of thousands or millions of values humans are still better than ai at certain kinds of complex tasks when those tasks are performed on a small scale amazon s alexa apple s siri and google s assistant use a special kind of ai natural language processing nlp to recognize spoken commands and questions and to provide synthetic replies as complex as these tasks might be they are not as complex as human conversation which considers not only words and grammar but tone and nonverbal and paraverbal cues human conversations take place in multiple simultaneous contexts words and grammar mean different things in different conversations thus far nlp allows machines to process language it does not yet enable them to converse as humans do bringing feelings perceptions and imagination into the exchange of information on the other hand humans can converse with only a limited number of other humans at once at a limited pace on the other hand a machine s ability to tirelessly process long streams of natural language even more than one at a time is limited only by the technical architecture of the hardware and software on which it is realized figure 1 positions some illustrative problem on axes of scale and complexity the promise of ai is in the highcomplexity lowscale and highcomplexity highscale quadrants this is what makes widespread applications of ai possible exponential increases in ubiquitous computing capacity computers which filled entire rooms in the 1960s were capable of little more than arithmetic at scale today billions of mobile phones contain the computing capacity required to perform the complex tasks which we refer to as artificial intelligence except where human wiring remains the better tool for some kinds of problemsolving machines can outperform humans in both scale and complexity this may seem obvious but it is exactly the point of all technology the first sharpened stone was a better cutting instrument than human fingernails this is what we humans do we are toolmakers we create things that allow us to solve problems and create value better faster and more reliably than we can with our innate capacities ai is just a new tool it may be an exceptionally interesting tool because more than a sharpened stone we see a bit of ourselves reflected in it portions of this article originally appeared in the journal of the world complexity science academy volume 1 issue 2 as artificial intelligence in mainstrem enterprise applications picirillo d 2020 https wwwwcsaglobalorg volume1issue22020 ai in mainstream enterprise applications what does ai offer humankind what does ai offer users of mainstream enterprise systems  latest webinars our proven track of record view all image webinar clone of the ciso exchange for a safer digital world image webinar the ciso exchange for a safer digital world image webinar zero trust architecture adoption in federal government image webinar zero trust architecture adoption in federal government image webinar zero trust architecture adoption in federal government popular articles unleashing business potential the power of adaptive enterprise architecture in the digital age businesses must adopt an adaptive enterprise architecture to succeed doug picirillo 15 best practices in salesforce development many businesses have decided to use salesforce s customer relationship management solution kannan venkataraman 