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1983 Isaac Asimov was asked to predict the future. He did a pretty good job. Yet, the author of “I, Robot” did not predict artificial intelligence in our time.
In 1984 I left my formal computer education program at university over an argument with my professor. He professed that artificial intelligence was within our grasp, and it would be a revolution for students and their careers. I did not see it then, and I don’t see it now.
1984–2018. I have worked in and around computers my entire career. From punch cards, in the ’70s, to supercomputers today. I have programmed, hacked, cracked, designed, and architected some of the most advanced systems in use today. I have created medical devices, B2B e-commerce sites, high-security P2P encrypted message systems, cyber-security predictive analysts systems, and a whole lot more. Yet, I do not see anything more exotic than old fashion brute force computing.
2019. I took a fabulous course at SC19 on Quantum Computing this year from Scott Pakin and Eleanor G. Rieffel, hoping to learn new skills from the front lines of advanced research. Unfortunately, the only intelligence I found was in them. Computers, not so much.
2020+. There is no intelligence. Business leaders are often gravely misinformed of the promise, and the general public is afraid of the…
