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The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the better-jump-the-shark dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Your career is now a game of musical chairs: you need to be ready when the song stops

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Although sixty years old, artificial intelligence remained mostly a curiosity until half a decade ago, when IBM's Watson trounced the world's best Jeopardy! players in a televised match. At the time, you might have thought nothing of that - what does a game show matter in the scheme of things?

It didn't stop there. IBM sent Watson to train with oncologists and lawyers and financial advisers. Quite suddenly, three very established professions, just the sort of thing you'd tell your kids to pursue as a ticket to prosperity, seemed a lot less certain of their futures in a world where intelligence, like computing before it, becomes pervasive, then commoditised.

These top-of-their-profession projects show that the driver to bring artificial intelligence into any field isn't the amount of labor, but rather the cost of that labor. A lawyer costs fifty times more per hour than a retail worker and so is that many times more likely to find themselves with an AI competitor.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:24PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:24PM (#427092) Journal

    I say we, as Soylentils (?) buy an AI Watson from IBM and have it solve, in an open source manner, all of the worlds/universes problems.

    Otherwise, all the solutions will be closed source and expensive... and only accessible if you join Faceboooooooooook!!!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:33PM (#427098)

    No need
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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday November 15 2016, @07:23PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @07:23PM (#427128) Journal

    Well, you say you have a problem, this need for more editors. Who better than an AI, and what better place for an AI to start?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @11:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @11:58PM (#427285)

      You've made MrPlow very sad.

  • (Score: 2) by Hawkwind on Tuesday November 15 2016, @11:17PM

    by Hawkwind (3531) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @11:17PM (#427262)

    I'm sorry, could you more clearly state the question? After all I'd like to have a useful answer.

  • (Score: 2) by fubari on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:49AM

    by fubari (4551) on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:49AM (#431686)

    So about Watson... let's maybe wait until Watson figures out how to improve ibm profitability.
    I learned a new word just now: degrowth [marketrealist.com].