Are you tired of waiting ? - AI can help!

Are you tired of waiting? 

Almost every day of your life will be spent waiting. You will be waiting in traffic. You will be waiting to buy or acquire a service. You will be waiting on the internet for your movie, music, or social media update. For the longest time, the human race has been inventing a lot of things for us to save time. But why are we still waiting? 

We live in only one Earth, where we are bound within finite space and resources. More human beings are getting introduced to this home of ours. There are only enough resources that we can share. So, the future will bring us longer waiting times for us to share these resources because there will be more of us. There will be longer wait times because there are a lot more of us (humans) vying for the same resources. Roadways, Food, Water, Air, Internet, and Services (e.g., Healthcare, Legal, Social) will need to be efficiently used and scheduled. We have systems in place to access these resources. Our current policies are constrained and inefficient. Our overburdened systems are the reason why we see our waiting times increase for almost anything.

Not only Physical Resources - most importantly services

How long have you waited in your local coffee shop? And that is just coffee, which can be a little bit tolerable if we wait for it more than usual. Imagine if that service is a legal service like immigration or incarceration, well a delay of a year to a couple of years might be fine - but around a decade or more, say about 50 years? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/the-employment-green-card-backlog-tops-800000-most-of-them-indian-a-solution-is-elusive/2019/12/17/55def1da-072f-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html) Do you think that is a reasonable wait time? That is just an example of wait times in the legal service industry. That is why it almost becomes a necessity to provide faster legal research using AI so that lawyers using our products are empowered to service more clients who are waiting.

What about other essential services that we need like healthcare, government, and social services. There is only a lot that an employee of these services can do.

AI Can Help!

Finding inefficiencies in resources and services management is one of the areas where AI/ML technology can be an advantage. Let AI/ML make predictions when a resource is needed or even ultimately decide on the next steps for faster access to resources and services. Assisting humans in determining to grant requests for resources and services is an excellent opportunity for AI/ML to thrive.

Example of Trends that AI/ML is helping provide faster access to resource and services:
  • Autonomous vehicles can drive much closer together at higher speeds, therefore, making use of roads much more efficiently. (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190519191641.htm)
  • Quick Check - lawyers can quickly check briefs instead of taking hours to file motions. It helps speed up a lawyer's time to service clients.
  • Support Chat Bots - you no longer need an actual person to help you with a specific product issue. Help speeds up to find a resolution to common product issues.

AI/ML becomes a necessity

The trend of competing for limited resources and services will only continue to be an issue in the future; that is why AI/ML becomes a necessity for us humans. Without AI/ML, it will just be more waiting time for us. We should be clamoring for AI/ML to be explored and studied like what Canada is doing. https://vectorinstitute.ai/

I hope that when in the future when we develop AI/ML in its fullest, that it might not conclude to solve the root cause of the problem of overburdened resources on Earth (like a science fiction movie) that it decides to get rid of us

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