AI is Only Going to Get Smarter

How people are already “cyborgs” feeding AI.

Michel Kana, Ph.D
5 min readFeb 3, 2021

AI as Augmentative Intelligence utilizing machine learning, algorithms, and rich data to augment the capabilities of humans and businesses could be soon an illusion.

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The accelerating rate of technological change makes it likely that people will have both the technological resources and scientific knowledge to create Artificial General Intelligence.

“Success in creating effective AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or the worst. We just don’t know. So, we cannot know if we will be infinitely helped by AI, or ignored by it and side-lined, or conceivably destroyed by it.” — according to Stephen Hawking in 2017.

Today, Artificial Intelligence can sort out massive amounts of data and find connections hidden to us. AI can break through the noise, through millions of messages a day. It is all wrapped around data and the ability to capture data about almost anything.

Most of that data is produced by people.

How often have you lived your life by recording it, digitizing it, and eventually sharing it?

When we experience something exciting, our first reaction is to take a picture or a…

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Michel Kana, Ph.D

Husband & Dad. Mental health advocate. Top Medium Writer. 20 years in IT. AI Expert @Harvard. Empowering human-centered organizations with high-tech.