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One thing that worries me is that most people might rely on computers instead of learning another language, or driving, navigating, or calculating. Computers
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
One thing that worries me is that most people might rely on computers instead of learning another language, or driving, navigating, or calculating. Computers then might outsmart us because we've become less intelligent.
A more optimistic view is that machine translation might help those of us who still want to learn other languages. Though I still think grammar rules are needed when learning other languages.
- visarga 10y agoI think humans are going to benefit from a kind of "reverse machine learning" in the future, where AIs will become much more skilled at teaching humans that human teachers. No need to regret the loss of calculation, driving and translation - we don't care about riding and throwing arrows either. We will learn what is relevant in the new age.
- DonaldFisk 10y agoThis is not the direction that AI is heading, though. It was possible with symbolic AI - expert systems were able to justify their reasoning (Mycin) or critique a user's approach (Attending - abstract at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303587198_Teaching_With_Attending_Tutorial_Use_of_an_Expert_System https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303587198_Teaching_...), but neural networks are quite opaque and there's no obvious big data approach which would enable them to become good at teaching. Some people do care about riding and archery, and are right to do so. I even care about and practise foraging for food, lighting fires for cooking on, and navigating using astronomy or compass. It's important to be able to fall back on low technology in case your high technology fails.