If you ask Mark Cuban, artificial intelligence isn’t a very capable problem-solver — and he doesn’t see that changing any time soon.
In an interview with Wired last month, the billionaire entrepreneur and investor posed a question: If you were blind, would you trust a seeing-eye dog or a self-driving car more to guide you for a few blocks?
“A dog can sense issues,” said Cuban, 66. “Nothing about a self-driving car understands what’s adversarial or not. If it hasn’t seen it, it has no idea. Whereas a dog is going to understand. I think smart puppies are smarter than AI is today or in the near future.”
The point, he said, was to examine how trustworthy AI is in getting people through tough, real-world situations.
“We have a mini Australian Shepherd. I can take Tucks and just drop him in a situation, and he’ll figure it out quick,” said Cuban. “I take a phone with …