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Artificial Intelligence: March of the Machines
- nopinsight 10y agoThis is a leading article of the Economist's special issue on AI. Their take on the impact of AI on job markets is that welfare systems will have to be updated, but people should also adjust. They can take on new roles in society through lifelong learning and use of online learning, perhaps with the help of AI itself and video-game-style simulations. Character and social skills may become more important as these are unlikely to be fully substituted by machines in the foreseeable future. I agree with most of it apart from their dismissive argument against the danger of AI as a very long term problem. Rapid progress in AI has just been demonstrated by deep learning's human-level performance in several tasks, emerged over the span of a few years. There is no guarantee that the upcoming advances will not catch us off-guard.