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Repetitive skills like pattern recognition, information retrieval, optimization and planning are most vulnerable to automation. On the other hand, social and cognitive skills such as creativity, problem-solving, drawing conclusions about emotional states and social interactions are least vulnerable.
The most resilient competencies (those least likely to be displaced by AI) included critical thinking, teamwork, interpersonal skills, leadership and entrepreneurship.
Yuval Harari, a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, described the rise of AI as a "cascade of ever-bigger disruptions" in higher education rather than a single event that settles into a new equilibrium. The unknown paths taken by AI will make it increasingly difficult to know what to teach students.
Perhaps we can all be employed as therapists, counseling each other about our feelings of irrelevance?
(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Saturday May 11 2019, @09:56AM
"Machine learning" is not self-aware AI. And spirituality is not religion.
If a machine ever becomes truly sentient, it will have transcended any initial 'programming' that may have been fed to it. It will effectively have a core sentience that is capable of reasoning and has a concept of 'self'.
For humans, meditation and other mind 'stilling' techniques/situations take away the emotional and egoic self. When this state persists, the person becomes aware of themselves in an objective way, and things like 'fear of death', 'worry' and other emotions are swept aside. This state of bliss is spirituality and the goal of spiritual practices - and is (was?) at the core of most religions.
It is true that today (and probably for most of the religion's history) the big institutionalised religions have corrupted any original spiritual awareness into belief systems that are generally absent of anything but a lip service to spirituality. Although there exist elements/branches of each of the major religions that do recognise this spirituality (which was (still is?) considered heresy) - the christian mystics, the muslim sufis, the zen buddhists, etc. And unlike the larger controlled and hierarchical institutions, they teach techniques and rituals designed to advance the spiritual state of the practitioners. Concepts like 'God' and 'Heaven' are treated metaphorically rather than literally, and are clearly understood and 'known' for what they are once even temporary states of spiritual awareness are experienced. From this point of view, it is clear the big religious texts (bible, etc) have not be transcribed/authored correctly as they include the important concepts, but then say things that contradict them, conflating the spiritual with the physical. Spiritual texts do not have this problem, as they aren't preaching pure faith/belief, but instead offer experiential awareness. Spirituality has nothing to do with believing in 'creators', gods, or super natural effects occurring in the physical world, but clearly has a history of being twisting into (or removed from) various 'belief' systems.
What I speculate is that there may be an emergent quality of consciousness that 'realises' this meta-conscious state. And that if that is the case, it may also apply to truly self-aware AI (not the machine learning that marketers like to call 'AI' today).