In the mean time - Watson is learning how to read x-rays, MRIs, CT scans and more.
https://news.fastcompany.com/ibm-say...cancer-4039394
Although I'm part of the class that is supposed to be replaced by automation, I welcome my AI overlords - when they arrive. I'm a mix of Peter Thiel and Thomas Piketty on this.
Certain tasks that I previously needed to do that sucked, ie: aggregating data, setting up excel to perform basic calcs, comparisons, pulling similar data, etc. I won't need to do. That will let me spend time focusing on the profitable side of my business - designing my tests, identifying markets, etc. The fun, engaging, and profitable side of my business won't be replaced any time soon. Automation helps people in these roles - and these roles exist in banking, accounting, etc. that are predicted to die a horrible death via the introduction of automation. Only certain aspects of jobs will be replaced - but in my field it is more common that 1 person has to do many things than many people doing 1 thing. I would agree that in a field where a worker does 1 job, their job is in jeopardy.
I'm more interested in AI than automation. AI will be automation x100 because we won't need people. Unfortunately, What passes as AI currently isn't true AI yet. Real unshackled AI will produce things beyond our comprehension - I believe Musk is trying to do that with his future gig-whatever factories; as he says, after they're designed by a true AI they'll look nothing like we could imagine - encountering them will be as if we encountered an alien dreadnought. And when we get true AI, whoever owns and controls the AI will live a life of leisure.
Do you really think that is what's going to happen in this part of Asia ? Unless heavily regulated, Utopia isnt part of the Feudalistic cultural make up of the special ones.
Lets look at Foxconn of where the Sino manual workforce is going to end up. They replaced most of their fine motor function assembly line workers with the latest robots.
Nobody is singing kumbaya about big business, industries who compete based on the lowest moral/human cost denominator.
Until one day... Those thown on that human scrap heap become the biggest terrorists that wealthy special ones will ever know.
That is where the world is headed in the very near future
One thing is for certain, and not such a bad thing, the office ass kissers wont exist, the moment the HR department flicks the AI switch. You literally becoming just an employee number of ' The Machine."
Last edited by Skyhook; 05-06-2017 at 07:26 AM.