There is a certain false premise in artificial intelligence, business intelligence, big data and smart technologies. We want to believe that these will lessen our burden, maybe even our responsibilities. We will develop algorithms that will solve all our problems and technology will take care of everything for us. That is true to an extent, but we have to be very very careful.
I'm sure you sent an email with an embarrassing auto correction. Mobile devices are known to lead to funny ones in peculiarity (in particular). The point is that while a wrong auto correction might often lead to nothing more than a smile, it's a whole different story when we talk about decision making that impact money, health and life.
It's the age old story of would we let robots choose who will live and who will die, but there's a long gray area in between pen and paper and machine world domination. It boils down to assumptions, ability to adapt to change and nurturing insight from data. None of which depends on technology, but rather on human ingenuity.
Some people say we should fear that machines will take over our jobs, that humans will be perceived as a waste of precious natural resources. But machines cannot harness inspiration. They cannot fault through passion to reveal unknowns and power discovery. Behind every breakthrough and significant leap, there is a human mind that by intention or by mistake, and through a maze of circumstances, broke a path to something truly unique.
This is the romantic tale of brain over processor, emotion over logic, and human over machine.
While technology can do good and bring harm, data itself has no sense. Context, passion, and sparks of ingenuity are what will propel us forward.
