GPS and AI basically have nothing in common with how they were developed. Navigation has been a difficult problem since the dawn of intelligent man. Someone came up with a crazy idea of providing timing data from satellites, and everyone gradually pitched in to make the obviously useful idea less crazy. AI is not obviously useful, many intelligent people will argue it’s useless, or less than useless. Despite this, the technology keeps pushing forward, with no particular objective in sight. We gradually find new use cases, and start digging into those, but no one actually knows what AI will actually be useful for in the long run.
GPS and AI basically have nothing in common with how they were developed. Navigation has been a difficult problem since the dawn of intelligent man. Someone came up with a crazy idea of providing timing data from satellites, and everyone gradually pitched in to make the obviously useful idea less crazy. AI is not obviously useful, many intelligent people will argue it’s useless, or less than useless. Despite this, the technology keeps pushing forward, with no particular objective in sight. We gradually find new use cases, and start digging into those, but no one actually knows what AI will actually be useful for in the long run.