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The melding of artificial and human intelligence in digital subsurface workflows: a historical perspective
- Source: First Break, Volume 36, Issue 12, Dec 2018, p. 85 - 89
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- 01 Dec 2018
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not some elusive, mystical technology that humanity is chasing, especially in regard to its usage in digital subsurface workflows. Artificial intelligence has been complementing human intelligence since the 1960s, and AI was deeply integrated into our personal and professional lives long before the technological revolutions of the 21st century. However, we tend to not realize how intrinsic AI is to our lives already. We are constantly moving the goalposts for defining AI as it solves more and more problems. This is known as the AI effect, where people tend to only think of AI as ‘whatever hasn’t been done yet’ (Hofstadter, 1979). This article attempts to review the historical melding of human and artificial intelligence in digital subsurface workflows, with some extra focus on the field of geophysics.