@Anuradha Udunuwara
This is a complex question, in the more general sense do we need Facebook and Social Media. I think the genie is out of the bag now with AI and there is no way to put it back , it is coming and it will be very hard to stop it. The changes that AI will make to society are profound – Self driving cars, Call Centers with no people, automated operations, automated doctors etc etc.
It will be more disruptive to society than the industrial revolution, it can be for the good of society or the bad, that is our choice at the end of the day.
For the telecommunications networks of the future AI will absolutely be needed to dive automation, however the effects on society of AI will be far more profound than this
Can it be controlled, well I think the first question will be how can we avoid being too dependent on it. Imagine a world of self drive cars, delivery vans etc and the system goes down..
In the longer team it will very hard to understand the answers that AI delivers so working out how to control it may well be beyond our capacity
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Brian Levy
TM Forum
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2017 11:05
From: Anuradha Udunuwara
Subject: Ask The Expert about Artificial Intelligence! Post your question here
Do we really need AI? How to avoid AI ruling us?
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Anuradha Udunuwara
Sri Lanka Telecom PLC
Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2017 10:56
From: Melanie DiGeorge
Subject: Ask The Expert about Artificial Intelligence! Post your question here
Hello community members, and welcome to our first Ask Us Anything about Artificial Intelligence session on TM Forum Community! Today, our expert, @Brian Levy , will be available to answer any and all of your questions from now until 1 pm EST.
Brian has been in the communications and broadcasting industry for more than 40 years. His experience includes being the Group Technology Officer of British Telecom, The Global CTO for HP for the Telecom and media sectors, The Software and the EMEA CTO for Juniper Networks and the EMEA CTO for Brocade Network, he also spent ten years in the BBC working in various roles developing the broadcast infrastructure and ten years working for AT&T in EMEA leading the role out of Frame Relay and AT&T's very first Internet backbone in EMEA.
Please use this thread to post your questions, and Brian will respond as quickly as he can. If he does not have an opportunity to respond to your question within the timeframe, we will follow up with you in the next week.
We are very excited and Brian is ready to answer your questions about AI, so please post your question below.
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Melanie DiGeorge
Community Manager
TM Forum
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