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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @07:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @07:23PM (#427127)

    All AI will care about is getting the job done right. If you want your oncologist to whisper sweet nothings in your ear, perhaps you should hire a role-playing prostitute instead.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @11:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @11:51PM (#427281)

    Robo-prostitute: Congratulations, you have successfully completed a Level II orgasm. Your next visit is scheduled in 48 hours. Now please exit the copulation chamber. Another guest is scheduled in 48 seconds and I must wipe up the salty fluid you have deposited.

    Robo-oncologist: Congratulations, you have cancer. Your options are surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or no intervention, with predicted survival times of 1.3, 1.6, 0.9 or 0.6 years respectively. Now please exit the analysis chamber. Another patient is scheduled in 48 seconds and I must wipe up the salty fluid you have deposited.

    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday November 16 2016, @04:56AM

      by mhajicek (51) on Wednesday November 16 2016, @04:56AM (#427370)

      I leave with my friends.

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      The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek