Week 1: Experiences with AI

 

 

Week 1

AI has become an increasing trend in everyone's day to day lives. While I have had limited experience in my professional career with AI, my personal life has been affected. In chapter one of Surfing the Tsunami, we can see how manufacturing needs have slowly been transformed by AI and we can see an increased interest in machine learning. 

Some of the personal experiences I have with AI are things such as buying a PS5, concert tickets and data graphic cards. If you're a Taylor Swift fan like myself you either experienced or heard of the issues Ticketmaster faced with bots. The second tickets went on sale a large portion of tickets were unknowingly sold to bots, which were then resold to people for higher prices. Ticketmaster's site continuously crashed due to the overwhelming volume of bots and Swifties trying to obtain tickets. Bots have been around for years and while people learn to combat them new ones are constantly being created. 

I believe AI is shaping our future professionally and personally and we will have to adapt. Sometimes AI can be used for not great purposes, such as skyrocketing the prices of Taylor Swift tickets, but in the long run will serve more positive out comes once we learn how to utilize this technology appropriately.

References

Kelsey, T. (2018). Surfing the Tsunami: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Options for Responding.

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