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Agreed. Though there is something to be said for skilled and unskilled labor. Where the advent of the automobile brought about a labor market for machine opera
by riter 7y ago
Agreed. Though there is something to be said for skilled and unskilled labor.
Where the advent of the automobile brought about a labor market for machine operators (taxi drivers, combine driver, etc.), what happens when the machines automate themselves.
Or the bar to acquire the technical skills of an operator (ML engineer) is so high and move too fast coupled with institutions reacting far too slow to adopt policy aiding the unemployed in high skill acquisition.
- maxk42 7y agoThe bar to acquire the technical skills of an ML engineer could, to continue the example, be likened to the bar to acquire the skills of an automotive engineer. It's a technically skilled profession. But the industries it empowered to arise (drivers) have much lower bars to entry. The point is that ML will create jobs not just in the production of ML but primarily in the application of ML. We cannot anticipate what that looks like, but it may be as simple as a clerk who speaks to a Star Trek-like computer and says "Computer, extrapolate what this person would look like in ten years and display." The more we pursue new technologies boldly without fear of the consequences the more power we give to the common man to get things done that would've previously been impossible to him.