AI and digital transformation

Issues of AI inventorship are important, but manycompanies transitioning to a software-based, data-centric business model arelikely to have more pressing concerns argues Wiggin’s Calum Smyth

Calum Smyth, Wiggin

As a concept, AIhas been around for a long time. It has been astaple in the world of fiction since at least the 1920s and, in recent years,scientists have been warning about the approaching ‘technological singularity’when, as writer Verner Vinge described it, super-intelligent AI wouldcontinuously upgrade themselves, advancing at an incomprehensible rate,eventually bringing about the end of the human era. In 2005, Ray Kurzweilpredicted that the singularity would occur in approximately 2045 and prominentscientists and industrialists (famously Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk) havewarned of the dangers of AI.