Page 10 - CSA Speaker Bulletin May 2017

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ROBOTICS AND AI

AI technologies. So I fully understand the importance of
Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing as well
as such less well known AI technologies as Bayesian Belief
Networks, Intent Interpretation, and Least Commitment
Planning. AI will continue to increase in importance.

But, AI is only as good as the quality of information it
accesses. If the information AI uses is inaccurate or
unreliable, so will be the results.

The same holds true for IoT. For the billions and eventually 4.They provide unhackable security against
trillions of Things connected to our networks, even more those unauthorized to view or change this
important than the ability of those Things to communicate same information.
will be our ability, and the abilities of our automated systems
(including AI systems), to verify the identity of those Things. This last assertion often stirs the emotions of
This will help ensure the accuracy of our decisions and cryptographers, both legitimate and self-proclaimed who will
actions with respect to those Things. It will also significantly state that nothing is unhackable. And while, technically, they
enhance our abilities to ensure that those Things are not are correct; Blockchain technology, properly implemented,
hacked or hijacked by malefactors. is economically unhackable. That is, the time, money, and
resources that would be required to successfully hack
Blockchain technologies can provide solutions to meet the Blockchain technology are so vast that there is little if any
demands for accurate reliable information of AI and IoT as economic justification for doing so. This explains in large
well as those of more traditional systems and the people part why Blockchain technology has never been successfully
who use them. How this is done is the point where, all too hacked.
often in Blockchain circles, the discussion descends deep Putting all of this together we can see that other emerging
into the weeds of the technical details of how Blockchain technologies such as 3D Printing, IoT, and especially AI, can
works. But much more important than how Blockchain provide point solutions to specific problems, sometimes very
works to almost everyone (except the engineers who important and valuable problems to solve. But Blockchain
themselves are designing and implementing Blockchain- technologies take it a giant step farther.
based systems) is what Blockchain technologies DO. They do
four critically important things: By providing the infrastructural glue tying multiple entities
together with accurate, reliable information, Blockchain
1.They allow two or more Entities, people, technologies play a crucial role in enabling the Digital
businesses, other organizations, etc. to Transformation of business models and indeed entire
securely share information on the Internet business, governmental, and social ecosystems to the
– without having to use (or pay) a third-party benefit of all. n
intermediary,

2.They maintain permanent, immutable,
time-stamped Records of Identity of people,
organizations, or things; of Ownership
or Status of assets, both digital and physical; of
Transactions; or of contractual Commitments,

3.They afford complete transparency to view
this information or to both view and update
information – for those authorized to do so,
and

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