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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

...

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: 2) by art guerrilla on Tuesday November 15 2016, @07:12PM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @07:12PM (#427118)

    and yet, i can go to just about any site and find typos, mispelled words, and wrongly used words all day, every day...
    not to mention, I CONSTANTLY find spel czech giving me the red squiggles on not-so-uncommon words ALL THE TIME... gotten to the point where i basically ignore spel czech because it is wrong so often...

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:38PM (#427172)

    I've seen quite a few of your posts, both here and on Techdirt. I'd say your spell checker has given up from constant abuse and spends its days in drunken stupor :)

    • (Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday November 16 2016, @12:24PM

      by art guerrilla (3082) on Wednesday November 16 2016, @12:24PM (#427481)

      funny, and yet my point remains...
      (again, i can write rings around most if i choose to go conventional... i do not so choose, writing correctly for ONLINE BULLSHIT (NOT a term paper for school, or an op/ed for a publication, is it ?) is boring, my writing is not... akin to saying that hanging out at the water cooler and not using complete sentences is somehow a failure of communication...)
      people just love them some gotchas, don't them ? ? ?

  • (Score: 2) by fubari on Tuesday November 15 2016, @09:12PM

    by fubari (4551) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @09:12PM (#427206)

    Still timely...

    I have a spelling checker,
    It came with my PC.
    It plane lee marks four my revue
    Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

    Eye ran this poem threw it,
    Your sure reel glad two no.
    Its vary polished in it's weigh.
    My checker tolled me sew.

    excerpt, full text here: Candidate for a Pullet Surprise [jir.com]

    • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Tuesday November 15 2016, @09:25PM

      by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @09:25PM (#427211) Journal

      While we're sharing old parodies, another timely one may be "Computers Don't Argue" [wikipedia.org] a 1965 story by Gordon Dickson. (You can read it online here [rainey.net].)

      If you've never encountered it, it's a story of how a guy who accidentally receives a book in the mail from some book club ends up charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder through a series of misinterpreted computer inputs. While improbable and outlandish, I can very easily imagine naive AI systems interacting to make similar errors.

      • (Score: 2) by fubari on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:45AM

        by fubari (4551) on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:45AM (#431684)

        thanks, looking forward to reading :-)