I had a very interesting conversation with Vijay (my son) on AI. The outcome is this article written by him…The original article is @ https://softwarenotes.substack.com/p/why-is-ai-important I was about to put on “Coded Bias” on Netflix and Dad asked me a curious question: Why is AI important? I could have answered by talking about the impact of AI/ML on our everyday lives — i.e., how it impacts everyday people … the users of technology and software But I opted to approach this question as a software engineer instead. Specifically, I approached this question as someone who takes deep interest in how software came to be, historically speaking. Through a short-yet-rambling answer, which turned into an hours long discussion between us, I told him that the whole point of programming was to implement an artificially intelligent machine; and so, AI is important because it is the whole reason why computer programming exists in the first place. It was a long discussion. And I accept...