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It also overlooks the generalization issue. Machines as a class have been becoming more and more general in their capabilities. Meaning that there are more and
by waterlesscloud 14y ago
It also overlooks the generalization issue.
Machines as a class have been becoming more and more general in their capabilities. Meaning that there are more and more things machines do better than humans. Humans can't keep racing ahead of that curve forever, at some point the machines catch up and can do anything humans can do. At that point, there is no next level for human work to move up the value chain. The value chain will be entirely subsumed by machines.
That endpoint is some time off in the future, but that doesn't mean that the inflection point of the curve is. We might be a lot closer to the inflection point than we think.
I don't think this is a bad thing, but it's something we're going to need to address as a society.
- icebraining 14y agohttps://xkcd.com/605/ https://xkcd.com/605/ The fact that machines have been gaining a lot of capabilities doesn't mean they'll catch up to us, much less any time soon. While I hope for the "singularity" much more than I fear it, we might remain in an intermediate state for a long time.
- mratzloff 14y agoI disagree that machines have become more general (at least as I am interpreting it). I would argue there are just a wider variety of specific tasks they have been programmed to do. "General" implies abstraction, and I suspect machines won't be capable of meaningful abstraction ("this situation is like that situation") without AI.