{"id":46164,"date":"2021-08-25T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=46164"},"modified":"2021-08-25T03:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:41:00","slug":"big-techs-stranglehold-on-artificial-intelligence-must-be-regulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/25\/big-techs-stranglehold-on-artificial-intelligence-must-be-regulated\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech’s Stranglehold on Artificial Intelligence Must Be Regulated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AI<\/strong> as a Service (AAAS), in some ways the RPA unattended bots are already there aren’t they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Bhaskar Chakravorti<\/strong><\/a> – Google CEO Sundar Pichai has suggested\u2014more than once\u2014that artificial intelligence<\/strong> (AI<\/strong>) will affect humanity\u2019s development more profoundly than humanity\u2019s harnessing of fire<\/a>. He was speaking, of course, of AI <\/strong>as a technology that gives machines or software the ability to mimic human intelligence to complete ever more complex tasks with little or no human input at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may laugh Pichai\u2019s comparison off as the usual Silicon Valley hype, but the company\u2019s dealmakers aren\u2019t laughing. Since 2007, Google has bought at least 30 AI<\/strong> companies<\/a> working on everything from image recognition to more human-sounding computer voices\u2014more than any of its Big Tech peers. One of these acquisitions, DeepMind, which Google bought in 2014, just announced<\/a> that it can predict the structure of every protein in the human body from the DNA of cells\u2014an achievement that could fire up numerous breakthroughs in biological and medical research. These breakthroughs will of course only happen if Google allows broad access to DeepMind\u2019s knowledge, but the good news is that Google has decided it will. However, there is a \u201cbut.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one, Google isn\u2019t the only gatekeeper whose decisions will largely determine the direction AI<\/strong> technology takes. The roster of companies snatching<\/a> up AI <\/strong>startups globally is also dominated by the familiar Big Tech names that so often accompany the search and advertising giant: Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. In 2016, this group, along with Chinese mega-players such as Baidu, spent<\/a> $20 billion to $30 billion out of an estimated global total of $26 billion to $39 billion on AI<\/strong>-related research, development, and acquisitions. With dominance in search, social media, online retail, and app stores, these companies have near-monopolies<\/a> on user data. Via their fast-growing and increasingly ubiquitous cloud services, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and their Chinese counterparts are setting the stage to become the primary AI<\/strong> suppliers to everyone else. (In fact, AI-as-a-service is already a $2 billion-a-year industry<\/a> and expected to grow at an annual rate of 34 percent.) According to soon-to-be-released research from my team at Digital Planet, U.S. corporations\u2019 AI talent is intensely concentrated as well: The median number of AI<\/strong> employees in the top five\u2014Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple\u2014is about 18,000, while the median for companies six through 24 is about 2,500. The numbers drop significantly from there. Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AI as a Service (AAAS), in some ways the RPA unattended bots are already there aren’t they? By Bhaskar Chakravorti – Google CEO Sundar Pichai has suggested\u2014more than once\u2014that artificial intelligence (AI) will affect humanity\u2019s development more profoundly than humanity\u2019s harnessing of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[638,640],"tags":[639,641],"class_list":["post-46164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}