Artificial Intelligence
and Big Data
Justina Breen
Big Data, Big Discoveries, Big Fallacies
The movie Her (2013)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6p6MfLBxc
IBM Robot “Watson” on Jeopardy
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otLoQrjs65I
Important Discussion Points
 What are the essential components of “real” intelligence?
 In what ways can big data combined with artificial
intelligence effectively replace human intelligence?
 If we can develop near-human intelligence, should we?
 What are some of the negative effects of big data-trained
robots replacing aspects of human intelligence?
 Human laziness?
 Loss of real human interaction?