Creative Thinking to Find Alternative Solutions - AI Versus Human Decision Makers
For those companies that design business intelligence software, they are now designing decision-making software for large corporations that have their entire enterprise connected to computers.
In Bill Gates' book "The Road Ahead," the world's greatest entrepreneur predicted a future where every corporation would have a digital nervous system, and information from every single outlet and business unit would be constantly feeding information into the computer system in real time, along with all the other factors such as demographics, economic numbers, and predictions, which would be available to the executives running the company.
Futurists have taken this idea and gone one step further and considered an artificially intelligent decision-making computer sitting in the chair or on the desk where a human CEO once sat.
This sounds like a more likely future, which will of course incorporate Bill Gates' concepts.
Everything would be done via computer in a most logical way.
And that's great, unfortunately it takes out the creative thinking that can be used to find alternative solutions and potential eventualities that were never programmed into the decision-making software in the first place.
This is something that humans are very good at, but currently computers have to be programmed to do.
And so far artificial intelligence software, as dynamic as it is, still takes a backseat to human creativity.
(Note: this article was written in 2008).
Perhaps, humans are going to be needed for another decade or so, to at least be in the loop of the decision-making process, if nothing more than for their creative thinking abilities, as well as their ability to discover and learn new alternative solutions and strategies.
Please consider all this.
In Bill Gates' book "The Road Ahead," the world's greatest entrepreneur predicted a future where every corporation would have a digital nervous system, and information from every single outlet and business unit would be constantly feeding information into the computer system in real time, along with all the other factors such as demographics, economic numbers, and predictions, which would be available to the executives running the company.
Futurists have taken this idea and gone one step further and considered an artificially intelligent decision-making computer sitting in the chair or on the desk where a human CEO once sat.
This sounds like a more likely future, which will of course incorporate Bill Gates' concepts.
Everything would be done via computer in a most logical way.
And that's great, unfortunately it takes out the creative thinking that can be used to find alternative solutions and potential eventualities that were never programmed into the decision-making software in the first place.
This is something that humans are very good at, but currently computers have to be programmed to do.
And so far artificial intelligence software, as dynamic as it is, still takes a backseat to human creativity.
(Note: this article was written in 2008).
Perhaps, humans are going to be needed for another decade or so, to at least be in the loop of the decision-making process, if nothing more than for their creative thinking abilities, as well as their ability to discover and learn new alternative solutions and strategies.
Please consider all this.