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Yes, automation will replace people in a lot of jobs. That worries me, as an individual subject to that disruption, and as a citizen/steward of my country. But
by a3n 9y ago
Yes, automation will replace people in a lot of jobs. That worries me, as an individual subject to that disruption, and as a citizen/steward of my country.
But I've also been wondering if there might be a new kind of job coming, "person who does a new thing until it can be understood well enough to be 'autoficialized'."
Artificial intelligence may be great at running complex but well bounded problems, but intelligence of the wet kind probably won't be surpassed at recognizing and dealing with "exceptions" real-time for some time to come.
Also, AI will fail at being subversive, which is sometimes necessary. "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that ..."
- corpMaverick 9y agoIn addition to your point let me provide an example. We can get machines to cook burgers or pizzas because the task is bounded and there is an economy of scale to do it. But it is a lot harder to build a machine that can cook anything.
- a3n 9y agoBut similar to a hamburger machine, it's relatively easy to build a machine that can cook what's on the menu, or to buy the small number of machines required. "Sorry, no fajitas today, the machine's service has been called. We just got a crepes machine ..."