Dream of electric sheep3/22/2023 With the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data in particular, we’re deploying machines to carry out analyses and take decisions that can be critical for the success of some human endeavor. It might get upset about us continually moving the furniture and decide to get revenge by crashing into our best antique glass cabinet. That doesn’t mean that the robot is aware that it is a vacuum cleaner and that it has a (single) purpose in life. Now that doesn’t detract from the fact that developing a robot vacuum cleaner that actually “learns” the layout of a room is pretty impressive. It just does not (always) mean what you think it does” (Claudia Perlich, Chief Scientist at Dstillery via CMSWire). There’s also an important article by Joyce Hostyn, which explains how a simplistic view of objectivity leads to (at best) biased results. I discussed this problem and its effects in more detail in my article on Ashby’s Law Of Requisite Variety. But we like deterministic models, because they make us feel like we’re in control. In fact, when the systems we try to model are complex or chaotic, no deterministic model can deliver correct results other than by accident. If the model is faulty and the calculation perfect, the results will be wrong. And our ability to effectively model complex problems is at best unproven. The problem lies in the validity of the models we use. Technically everything will work but the results will be a matter of chance. What disturbs me about both of those pieces is the suggestion that if we sort out some interoperability and throw masses of computing power and smart algorithms at a problem, everything will be dandy.Īctually it could just make things worse. The other, by Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps, appeared in Forbes under the title There Is No Internet of Things and laments the lack of interconnectedness in most “Smart” technologies. One is a GE Report that looks very thoroughly, if somewhat uncritically at what it calls the Industrial Internet. Two recent posts that came my way via Twitter this week provoked me to write this blog. It bothers me because, like it or not, these problems can only be addressed by a partnership of man and (intelligent) machine and yet we seem to want to take the intelligence out of both partners. What we try to do is to address problems of increasingly critical economic, social and environmental importance. It’s how we try to do what we try to do with them. Throughout history, from the ancient Greeks and the Talmud, through The Future Eve and Metropolis to I Robot and Terminator, we seem to have been both fascinated and appalled by the prospect of an autonomous “being” with its own consciousness and aspirations.īut right now it’s not the machines that bother me. Dick won multiple awards for his works, examining human identity, psychology, conspiracy and paranoia, challenging the idea of objective truth in a manner that remains relevant today.What does the apocalyptic vision of Blade Runner have to do with The Open Group’s Open Platform 3.0™ Forum? Voted in a Locus poll as one of the 100 pre-1990 SF Novels, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep spawned two blockbuster movies. But in Deckard's world things aren't that simple, and his assignment turns into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit - and the hunter becomes the hunted. The opportunity of a lifetime: kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard searches for the renegade replicants he is sent to 'retire', while he dreams of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of natural life.
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