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A Sobering Message about the Future at AI's Biggest Party

posted by martyb on Sunday December 15 2019, @01:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'll-think-about-it dept.

Fnord666 writes:

A sobering message about the future at AI's biggest party

Blaise Aguera y Arcas praised the revolutionary technique known as deep learning that has seen teams like his get phones to recognize faces and voices. He also lamented the limitations of that technology, which involves designing software called artificial neural networks that can get better at a specific task by experience or seeing labeled examples of correct answers.

"We're kind of like the dog who caught the car," Aguera y Arcas said. Deep learning has rapidly knocked down some longstanding challenges in AI—but doesn't immediately seem well suited to many that remain. Problems that involve reasoning or social intelligence, such as weighing up a potential hire in the way a human would, are still out of reach, he said. "All of the models that we have learned how to train are about passing a test or winning a game with a score [but] so many things that intelligences do aren't covered by that rubric at all," he said.

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  • (Score: 2) by legont on Sunday December 15 2019, @04:00PM (1 child)

    by legont (4179) on Sunday December 15 2019, @04:00PM (#932387)

    CNBC analyzed Goldman Sachs compensation data going back 10 years and found the average employee earned $246,216 during the first three quarters of 2019 — compared to $527,192 during the same period in 2009. That figure, CNBC noted, was calculated by dividing the bank's compensation pool by the number of workers.
    It reflects the evolution investment banks have been forced to undergo in the high-tech era, when trading is done mostly by computers and post-recession regulations.

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/business/goldman-sachs-salaries-compensation/index.html [cnn.com]

    Compensation dropped to 31% and all the lost went to tech - inside and outside. I bet they hate us passionately.
    I don't even have to bet as at my - different but finance - office they fired IT people last week - a Christmas gift of sorts.
    How do you think Clinton likes IT with all her email troubles?
    I don't even want to mention truckers and all the rest of flyovers.

    We are hated by all the levels of the society. How will it end?

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday December 15 2019, @04:25PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday December 15 2019, @04:25PM (#932400) Journal

    >We are hated by all the levels of the society.
    We installed windows and systemd on their systems. Live by the sword...

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