Yet the more people learn about so-called surveillance capitalism — and its presumed Big Brother, artificial intelligence — the less they like about lacking control. Processing data — using artificial intelligence (AI) — can be productive. He argued persuasively that public apprehensions are often a product of public perceptions that link artificial intelligence to surveillance capitalism and authoritarian governments. Kathryn Hume, who heads business development for Borealis AI, argued that artificial intelligence boils down to rapid-fire math and computing power. That hasn’t stopped the all-too-human Luddites in Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government from slashing $20 million in funding for the Vector Institute’s research on artificial intelligence, and a further $4 million for CIFAR’s programs supporting advanced AI research.

Source: thestar November 02, 2019 10:18 UTC