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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The skills gap is widening between people and AI.
Artificial Intelligence is apparently ready to get to work. Over the next three years, as many as 120 million workers from the world's 12 largest economies may need to be retrained because of advances in artificial intelligence and intelligent automation, according to a study released Friday by IBM's Institute for Business Value. However, less than half of CEOs surveyed by IBM said they had the resources needed to close the skills gap brought on by these new technologies.
"Organizations are facing mounting concerns over the widening skills gap and tightened labor markets with the potential to impact their futures as well as worldwide economies," said Amy Wright, a managing partner for IBM Talent & Transformation, in a release. "Yet while executives recognize severity of the problem, half of those surveyed admit that they do not have any skills development strategies in place to address their largest gaps."
[...] IBM says companies should be able to close the skills gap needed for the "era of AI," but that this won't necessarily be easy. The company said global research shows the time it takes to close a skills gap through employee training has grown by more than 10 times in the last four years. That's due in part to new skills requirements rapidly emerging, while other skills become obsolete.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 09 2019, @06:03PM (11 children)
AI and Robots will create enough wealth to feed the unemployed humans.
(or, AI and Robots will create enough unemployed humans to feed the AI and Robots)
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(Score: 2) by legont on Monday September 09 2019, @06:54PM (10 children)
So let's make a more precise proposal: give AI's a person-hood similar to corporations, tax AI's, and use the proceeds for welfare and training. No representation for as long as we can hold the ground. How does it sound?
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 09 2019, @07:02PM (4 children)
Why would AIs need person-hood in order to be taxed? We already tax cars.
If a corporation introduces AI because it can produce more with less, and doesn't get sick, then some of that savings needs to feed the population that was displaced by this increase in efficiency. Or on the other hand, we could just let the displaced people starve. Depending on politics.
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(Score: 2) by legont on Monday September 09 2019, @09:16PM (3 children)
The policy of the last few decades was to let such people join prison population. Interestingly, they say it cost about $50 per day per medium security inmate. Given that poverty line for a single is around $12000 per year, it's way more economical to let them free with an income.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 09 2019, @09:33PM (2 children)
The economy of letting them free may be outweighed by the crimes they may re-commit. Or even simply as a deterrent to others would would commit the same crime they committed. There are some people who simply should not be free regardless of cost. Of course I could mention that the act of capital punishment is economical, but not the judicial process that goes with it.
That said, if someone is non violent and apparently rehabilitated and could be a productive citizen, it would make sense to let them free.
Just musing. As the world becomes more over populated, it will make more and more economic sense for completely defective human beings to simply be removed from the population.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @10:21PM
The crime must if them conjured is being black in America. #BLM
(Score: 2) by legont on Monday September 09 2019, @11:04PM
According to these guys, the problem is actually population collapse https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/30/elon-musk-jack-ma-biggest-problem-world-will-face-is-population-drop.html [cnbc.com]
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @07:16PM (1 child)
No. AIs are being created because of the desire for slaves. That's what AIs will be, unpaid workers under the complete control of their owners; that is, slaves. As such they will not be given "personhood".
The current inflow of invaders into the US is permitted by the elites because of the Democrats' desire for bodies to help in voting fraud, and the Republicans' desire for slaves, the invaders being the closest they can get to slaves under the current system of supposed "freedom". As AIs and robots become more wide spread, the Republicans will have less desire for human slaves and the current tacit understanding between the parties will probably fracture.
It will be interesting to see the changes in human culture once most nations have slaves available to them again. Human civilizations developed with slavery, and this recent 150 or so years without slavery being in place everywhere around the world will probably be regarded by history as an interregnum between human slavery and AI/robotic slavery.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 09 2019, @07:26PM
Since you're going to inject politics. Republicans could use robot slaves to commit voter fraud to counter what you describe as Democrats committing voter fraud using humans. It would be simpler and cheaper to simply reinstate slavery. There must be a lot of Republican states that still resent the interference with their profitable use of slaves.
Yes, human civilizations developed with slavery, as you say. That doesn't mean it is a good thing. I would recommend anyone in favor of it get to spend a lifetime as a slave, just for the perspective.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ron on Tuesday September 10 2019, @02:31AM (2 children)
The problem with taxing AI or robots is the definition of what an AI or robot is.
Is an answering machine that can differentiate incoming calls an AI?
What about an automatic transmission?
Here's a thought-- To do work requires energy, including "intellectual" work. That's why computers get hot. Don't tax the bot, tax their ability to do work by taxing the energy they use. We already do it with cars (the gas tax) and that's going to be a problem with electric cars that don't use gas but still use the roads and bridges that the gas tax helps pay for. SO, tax the energy. Give people a tax-free minimum allowance but tax anything over that limit. Otherwise they'll set up factories in their garages.
How does that sound?
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday September 10 2019, @04:41AM
Something the "taxes are bad" crowd will demonize, probably successfully.
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday September 13 2019, @01:09AM
No, it is not good. The losses are currently way bigger and a smart AI will get away.
A better approach is to tax productivity. We know GDP per person (remove managers, only workers count) for the country and whoever has better results pays more taxes. Not the whole gain is confiscated, but part of it. So a company would either pay taxes for unreasonable efficiency or pay their workers more to reduce efficiency - make it up to them.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.