Artificial Intelligence: Last human invention?

[siamese3]

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/21/52470...cial-intelligence-be-the-last-human-invention
I heard this yesterday and found it completely mind bending. It's only a portion of a TEDtalk, from TEDradio,, so it's only about 12 minutes long. The idea of deep learning is quite a bit to take in. I hear information like this and can not believe that people are still arguing about women's rights and civil liberties. America needs to wake up to the fact that moving backward is not going to be the answer. The American middle class, strengthened after WWII, by good job security and employer financed pensions and healthcare, will never come back. Service based industry jobs, which already don't support people by providing a living age, will eventually be replaced by automation. I don't have the answers, but it is a lot to think about. I think it is such a disservice to the American public to mislead them with the rallying cries of "the good old days."

 

[monarch64]

BUT THINKING IS HARD.

 

[redwood66]

BUT THINKING IS HARD.

Yes it is. For EVERYONE.

 

[monarch64]

Yes it is. For EVERYONE.

Wasn't saying nor implying otherwise. My brain hurts every day at work, all day. I work on websites, coding, programming, etc. and I've never been trained for it--entirely self-taught over the last two decades, and I'll still never catch up. I am constantly challenged, but I am also fearless when it comes to technology. What I do fear is the fact that many ARE afraid of it, do NOT want change, and just want to bury their heads in the sand, go back to the way things used to be, and expect a different outcome than what is blatantly obvious lies ahead.

 

[siamese3]

 

[ksinger]

And since we're talking about Deep Thought (yes, I'm mixing authors), time to admit that my thought only works thusly....

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shaking,
the shaking becomes a warning;
it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.


All jokes aside though, yes, this level of "automation" is going to be a huge problem with the types of economies and social structures we have. It's going to interesting when virtually everyone is out of work due to our fixation on efficiency.

But then, I suspect we'll bomb ourselves back to the stone age before we allow that to happen.