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It still takes less energy than raise humans and educate them to do mediocre jobs.
by pelasaco 6y ago
It still takes less energy than raise humans and educate them to do mediocre jobs.
- goatlover 6y agoPlenty of humans are already raised, and can do other things machines can’t.
- pelasaco 6y agoplenty of humans are raised but not educated. So let's educate them to do the other things that machines can't.
- joe_the_user 6y agoThere are very few "typical human tasks" that machine learning actually does better than a person at; playing game all the occurs to me. But driving, image description, language-translation, and so-forth, at the scale that a human does it, the human is generally still considered to do tremendously better. Of course, some ML programs are convenient in being able to do things at a large scale but a majority of what ML programs do is like language translation - not great and what we sometimes live with 'cause it's free. Basically, one should really not discount human ability, especially in tasks considered mundane. Such skills often are often considered "mediocre" not because they're actually easy but because all human can do them, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
- mortehu 6y agoML is usually better at speed. For example I use a fine tuned GPT-2 for code autocomplete in vim, and even though humans could do better, they can't do it as fast.
- pelasaco 6y agoThe same was reported last year. ML could offload lawyers, doing many tasks done by them. Not better, but faster and for sure, spending less energy.
- joe_the_user 6y agoRight now, a lot of the low-level tasks that contract lawyers do at scale for maybe $50/hour could be done by clerks for $15/hour or clerks in India for $3/hour (or something). But the lawyer paid for their time because their expertise is need to flag the "corner cases".