Week #8- Surfing the Tsunami- Ch. 8

This week I read the last chapter of the book Surfing the Tsunami, and it was about what we have to do next. In this chapter he talks about different places we can go to get more information about AI. He says there are books we can read. There are websites that we can go on and take courses about AI. There are a bunch of different options that he gives you to learn more about things that are going to be happening in the future. If I had the time to do all of these things, I would probably go on a few websites to try and learn more about AI and how it is going to potentially impact my life one day. But I just don't have the time right now and I don't have the drive to learn more about it at this moment. Maybe one day I will want to learn more about it and start to really dive into it, but not now.

Week #7- Surfing the Tsunami- Ch. 7

This week I also read Surfing the Tsunmai Chapter 7 and it is about Getting to Know AI. In this chapter he introduces some people who have a lot to do with AI. He just gives brief over views of a bunch of these people who have a lot to do with AI. He also includes videos of the people and different websites to help us learn more about it. He also does an interview with a person who is big into AI and he says a big part of learning more about it is that we have to read books and articles about it, but also person-to-person contact is important for learning more about it. Just in case you have questions its easy to ask them right in person. Or if you have really specific questions and they answer them and you need more clarifying, then they can offer that to you. So being in person really helps to understand different things.

Week #6- Surfing the Tsunami- Ch. 6

This week I read Chapter 6 of Surfing the Tsunami, and it was about the last way that we should respond to AI and the last way is to adept. This means that can get directly involved with developing AI, by learning coding and how to work with related data. Although this sounds nice to be able to do, its not something that I would have interest in at all. I don't really want to know how to code things at all. I understand that this is an important part, but if I wanted to know how to code I would be a computer science major, but no thanks. I think the first two steps are super important and, in my own opinion, I think those two are really important, but we don't need to code. I mean maybe in the future we will have to know how to do those things to be able to use a computer, which is fine, but up until then I don't think I want to learn that stuff. There are a bunch of videos of this kind of stuff on YouTube that you can watch if you are interested in this stuff.

Week #4- Surfing the Tsunami- Ch. 4

This week I also read Chapter 4 of Surfing the Tsunami and it was about the first part of responding to AI. The first way to respond to it is, Adapt. Adapt means learn more and pay attention; keep aware of where things are headed. He says that this stage is good, its good to realize and learn more about what is going to happen in our future. But he also says you can't just stop here. You have to become pro-active in this phase. He says we need to dig deep in researching about AI. Step 1 is to read articles. There are a bunch of articles he gives the url to in chapter 3 and he thinks its a good idea to read through all of them just to get some more background information about AI. Step 2 is to read books. He thinks its very helpful to actually have a physical book and go through it. Flipping the pages and putting your phone down and getting off of the computer helps to not be distracted and to really learn about everything. He also gives good suggestions of books to read in this book. At the end of the day it is important to keep up to date on these things and to figure out whats going on with AI and to see how soon it will be here.

Week #3- Surfing the Tsunami- Ch. 3

This week I also read Chapter 3 of Surfing the Tsunami and it was about how AI is impacting the job market. In this chapter he gives a bunch of examples as to which jobs are probably going to be jeopardized. Jobs such as: accountants, lawyers. retail workers, financial advisers, and sales jobs. So as you can see its in no specific area of work that is going to be losing jobs, its pretty much all over the board. He pretty much says that you have to be a realist and realize that the change is coming and we need to adapt to the change. Change can also be good. Certainly, if AI doesn't effect your job, then yes the change is a good thing. AI has started to effect my job. I work as a teller at a bank and the job of a teller is slowly becoming a smaller and smaller job. I can't tell you the last time I walked into the bank, because of AI. ATM's can pretty much do anything a teller can do. Most basic transactions can be done through an ATM. So I am a little worried for my job, but not really. I don't plan on being a teller for a very long time, so I'm not too nervous about losing my job. But I do think this change is a good thing. If companies can save money by switching to robots, then they should, and I think we would all think like this if we were the CEO's of all these companies.

Week #2- Surfing the Tsunami- Ch. 2

This week I read chapter 2 of Surfing the Tsunami and it was about what AI is up to these days. That is actually the title of the chapter. But the first example that he gives is self driving cars, its pretty much a robot that is driving your car and you are just sitting in the drivers seat, but not actually driving. He pretty much goes on to say that this could potentially be a very dangerous thing to do, because obviously humans make mistakes and so can AI. Machines aren't perfect just like humans, sure they have far fewer errors but they still can make mistakes.

Another area that AI is taking over is drones. These are a physical example of how AI is taking over. The ability that drones have to fly and take pictures and videos is amazing. And they can also go pretty far from where the operator is. Farther than something like a little helicopter. Siri is another good example. I never think of Siri as a robot. I think of her as just an easier way to do things, which is really AI. AI is trying to make humans lives easier. The ways that iPhones store things such as our locations and what we say to Siri is almost scary. I can't speak for Androids because I don't know much about them, but when I turn on my car and the Bluetooth on my phone connects to my cars Bluetooth, the maps on my iPhone automatically pop-up and depending on the time of day it will tell me how long it will take me to get somewhere. Usually it says how long it will take me to get home or to get to work. That is AI. So the amount of AI that is already in our lives is astounding, and we don't even realize it half the time.