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

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: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @09:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @09:00PM (#427199)

    > This is the fundamental problem with outsourcing.
    > a local cares but uploading my xrays to the India equivalent of amazons mechanical turk, they're just not gonna give a F.

    Outsourcing?
    Outsourcing!

    WTF? Nobody is talking about out sourcing to India.

    Man, you have become as bad as Michael Crawford. Long rambling posts that are all about you personally that seem like they might have a relevant point, but get to the end, and its just whatever stick happened to be up your butt today.

    You have a problem. Get help.

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