A.I. Hype Is Generating Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In Investment. Yet A.I. Is Bad At Math, Hobbled by Inconsistent Data, And Crippled by Siloed Expertise.
AI, we are told, is the future. It will transform every aspect of human life, fully justifying the hundreds of billions of dollars that big business is spending in pursuit of exponential gains in efficiency and productivity. The gold rush is in full swing and every company from Amazon to your local toy store is trying to implement AI in some way.
Yet three interlocking problems stand in the way of achieving major gains from A.I. in the near term.