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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, @08:42PM
> The obvious rebuttal is that this alleged targeting of expensive labor has yet to happen.
Ah! I love the smell of assburgers in the morning! Smells like victory!
The obvious point of the article is to talk about where we are going. Clearly you prefer to stare at your thumbs while you twiddle them. Smarter people are thinking about what comes next.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday November 17 2016, @02:39PM