The reality is AI is hard, no one has cracked it, not even close, no one even has a good idea how to crack it (unless they are keeping it to themselves), we build neural networks and expert systems trying to imitate intelligence with mathematical models and structures but so far that is the best we can do and really it is a farely poor imitation but good enough for many scenarios like performing well defined tasks, sorting through large amounts of data or pattern recognition.

E.g. the example mentioned of replacing Junior lawyers doing case research, this is something we have already written expert systems for decades ago, I worked on one for a large law firm in Australia written in AionDS some 20 years ago, also did a risk assessor system for an insurance company. They work well because the actual job doesn't require much thought and works easily on a simple well defined set of rules, calling it AI is personally something I hate as their is no intelligence in these systems, they are purely rules engines.

I appreciate your knowledge in this area, you obviously are invested in tech. I think when this AI thing gets cracked it will spread like fire, but in the meantime Automation is probably a better descriptor of what we are facing, AI will ride in on its coat tails so to speak, thanks for the detailed post  

Gone sexual too

WTF?!?

Is this from a credible source?

re: nurse v cop

We're all aware that the cop didn't do this because he's lazy, right? It was essentially part of a cover up https://t.co/eyvz8f67Jk

— Owen Barcala (@obarcala) September 2, 2017

The patient was the victim of a head on car crash, instigated by a high speed police pursuit against department policy

The other driver--the suspect--died in the crash. So why did the cop want the victim's blood? To find something to disparage the victim...

And excuse the police from instigating the deadly car chase. This is not really uncommon, relatively speaking. Other cop on video saying...

No probable cause. It's not that they didn't want to go to effort of getting a warrant, they knew no judge would sign one.

Also, the Supreme Court decision holding it unconstitutional to draw blood w/o consent or warrant came down last year. The cop...

Is a trained phlebotomist in the police blood draw unit. There is *no way* he was unaware of a SCOTUS case that directly controlled his work

So this is incredible in that its actually worse than the video shows--it's criminal abuse of power in at least three ways

Oh, and dept reviewed video w/in 12 hrs, did nothing til it went viral. If you think he's just a rogue cop, you're not paying attention

Turns out, victim was off duty Idaho cop. Nurse Wubbels was arrested for protecting an unconscious officer from abuse by another officer.

Facebook? I don't share any views on Facebook :p

AI's growing by going outside the oundaries of their original intentions? Were these AIs not written to develop communication methods? it's not growth if all it does is solve a pre defined search space. Right now AI's are all very narrowly defined expert systems. Nobody really knows how to bring these together to start making a general purpose AI that can actually pick up new skills.

Here is a question... With how much money lawyers earn... Why is he an Uber driver?

Probably couldn't get picked up by a law firm. Maybe he went to college, passed the bar exam, and never went any further. My ex's nephew went to college to be a lawyer. Passed everything and now works as a bank teller.

Oh boy people will call me an automation freak.

Anyway:

Lawyers, for example, may conjure up images of formidable debators pontificating in front of grand juries, but the reality is much more mundane.

"The vast majority of activities that lawyers are engaged in are straightforward drafting of contracts, putting together things like apartment leases, real estate deals, pre-trial discovery," Kaplan said. "It's these very tasks that make the profession susceptible to automation."

Startups are already springing up to take on these time-consuming and expensive chores. Kaplan lists just a few of them in his book — Judicata uses statistical methods called machine learning and natural language processing to automatically find relevant court cases.

Fair Document allows users to fill out forms to create documents for, say, estate planning for only $995 — a "service that might otherwise typically cost $3,500 to $5,000," for a lawyer to do.

There's already a huge gap between the small number of law jobs and increasing law school graduates. The New York Times reports 40% of 2014 law school graduates failed to find jobs "that required them to pass the bar exam."

It isn't something new, did something happen to change it? More training? Investments? Isn't their like an Union that would demand more training? I find hard to believe the police being happy with everything going on?   ofcourse it is maybe also blown out of proportion because of social media.

They only searched his car because they called in a K-9 unit, and one of the cops (NOT the K-9 officer) then immediately entered the vehicle and began to search it, despite (according to the driver) receiving no confirmation from the K-9 officer that the dog had indicated anything of legal interest.  If I recall the video correctly, the officer who entered was the same officer as was most belligerent in the video. 

Where did you get the information that the passenger was arrested in connection with this event?