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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @07:20PM
Well, if the automated lawyers are as good as the automated spell checkers … eye hope eye wheel never need two use one.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday November 15 2016, @07:24PM
s/need/kneed/g
s/one/won/g
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday November 15 2016, @07:25PM
Oh, they'll be even better.
//fix this later
If(true)
{
Suggest("Take the plea deal");
}
else
{
DefenseStrategy x=new DefenseStrategy(RetrieveEvidence());
}
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:13PM
Google Maps still frequently gives bad directions on many intersections for years after corrections are repeatedly suggested and yet they're going to give us self-driving cars in just a few years?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @12:22AM
Don't knock Google. They may be the only place you can search for meatspace lawyers rather than their more charming AI brethren.