Annie Jacobsen

And he told me that we were a ways away from –

AI really being able to have sentience.

And he gave me an analogy I'll share with you because I think about this and it's really interesting.

Keep in mind this was seven or eight years ago.

He said to me, okay, so my iPhone machine learning, it has facial recognition, which is shocking.

You can tip it up and it can see you.

It can even be dark.

And he said, so that's computer recognizing me based on electronic information that it knows.

He said, now take your iPhone to a football field and put the iPhone across the football field.

Put me in a cap and a hoodie and have the iPhone try to recognize me.

Even if I'm walking, it can't.

And then he said, take my teenage daughter and put her across the football field, me with the baseball cap and the hoodie.

My daughter, if I take two steps, she knows it's me.

That's human intelligence versus where machine intelligence is.

The difference is this.

With the biometrics, the offset technology of biometrics that can see you from far away and identify you, it's looking at you, grabbing a metric like your iris scans that it already has in a computer system from you going in and out of the airport or wherever it happened to have captured your biometrics.

And it's matching it against a system of systems.

But the human knows intuitively who the person is across the field without having – they have their own internal.

So the metaphor is the same.

But do you see what I'm saying?