Soon AI will take over the world. There will be no jobs left for human beings. As a species, we will slowly realize that our existence is meaningless, staring off into the distance while an AI robot cooks our food and folds our laundry. We won’t manage our own finances, won’t build our own products—we won’t even fly our own planes.
Or at least that’s the reality some people envision when they think of the rise of AI—and as general partner of a deep tech venture capital firm, I believe it’s far off-base from what lies ahead.
Sure, the buzz over AI has become much louder with the proliferation of terms such as “big data” and “deep learning.” But unbeknownst to most people, the scientific community still has not found the road map to a path that will achieve that vision.
This was true 50 years ago, just as it is true today.
The irony of AI is that it is a master of complexities and newbie of generalities.