Journal kheldan's Journal: 'Robots' and so-called 'AI' aren't going to take our jobs 1
Every generation seems to go through this phase: "{insert new technology here} is going to ruin our lives/destroy the world! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!1!"
It's no more true now than it's ever been.
First of all: So-called 'AI': No such thing -- yet, and probably not for some time to come (Read that as: decades. Perhaps as much as ten decades). We don't even have a clue yet as to how the human brain manages self-awareness, consciousness, or sentience, and without that knowledge, all we're creating in silicon and software is just clever algorithms that at best mimick some limited human behaviors, or are 'expert systems', or even so far as 'learning systems' -- but they're not anywhere near self-aware, they don't really 'think', not in the human sense, and you can't sit down with one and have a random conversation with it and be fooled for very long that it's not a machine, which by the way is my standard for true AI: You have to be able to sit down with it and have long conversations with it and feel like you're talking to a human being. Nothing like that exists yet, nor will it until we understand how we innately do that.
Now, then: So-called 'self-driving cars': Simply put, they won't be -- not any more or any soone than real AI will exist. There will always have to be a human being at the wheel to prevent it from doing something unexpected or unsafe, and don't believe any of the fanboys who will tell you otherwise.
Next: Even really good expert systems or automation will still need human oversight, for safety reasons and for quality reasons. Furthermore, there are many jobs that need a human touch to really get it right. Example: I once worked for a company that build ultrasound machines. You needed experience assembling the probes, if you wanted one that wasn't total junk for accuracy and image quality. Written instructions alone weren't enough to do that, you needed an experienced person doing it, and training another person to do it. No way you could build a machine to assemble them and get anything other than a piece of junk.
Finally: There are too many instances where people only want to interact with other people, not some machine. Doesn't have to be simple tasks either. Maybe many many years from now, assuming there is real AI and realistic androids, but not anytime soon.
In the meantime: I recommend everyone relax -- The human race isn't going to get fired from all it's jobs an 'replaced by robots'. It's just Chicken Little running around telling us the sky is falling, or alarmists and trolls trying to get attention. Technology is created to help people, not destroy people. Remember that, in the face of alarmist 'news' stories to the contrary.
It's no more true now than it's ever been.
First of all: So-called 'AI': No such thing -- yet, and probably not for some time to come (Read that as: decades. Perhaps as much as ten decades). We don't even have a clue yet as to how the human brain manages self-awareness, consciousness, or sentience, and without that knowledge, all we're creating in silicon and software is just clever algorithms that at best mimick some limited human behaviors, or are 'expert systems', or even so far as 'learning systems' -- but they're not anywhere near self-aware, they don't really 'think', not in the human sense, and you can't sit down with one and have a random conversation with it and be fooled for very long that it's not a machine, which by the way is my standard for true AI: You have to be able to sit down with it and have long conversations with it and feel like you're talking to a human being. Nothing like that exists yet, nor will it until we understand how we innately do that.
Now, then: So-called 'self-driving cars': Simply put, they won't be -- not any more or any soone than real AI will exist. There will always have to be a human being at the wheel to prevent it from doing something unexpected or unsafe, and don't believe any of the fanboys who will tell you otherwise.
Next: Even really good expert systems or automation will still need human oversight, for safety reasons and for quality reasons. Furthermore, there are many jobs that need a human touch to really get it right. Example: I once worked for a company that build ultrasound machines. You needed experience assembling the probes, if you wanted one that wasn't total junk for accuracy and image quality. Written instructions alone weren't enough to do that, you needed an experienced person doing it, and training another person to do it. No way you could build a machine to assemble them and get anything other than a piece of junk.
Finally: There are too many instances where people only want to interact with other people, not some machine. Doesn't have to be simple tasks either. Maybe many many years from now, assuming there is real AI and realistic androids, but not anytime soon.
In the meantime: I recommend everyone relax -- The human race isn't going to get fired from all it's jobs an 'replaced by robots'. It's just Chicken Little running around telling us the sky is falling, or alarmists and trolls trying to get attention. Technology is created to help people, not destroy people. Remember that, in the face of alarmist 'news' stories to the contrary.
Crap. (Score:2)
Dammit. That means a load more years stuck in this life-sucking cube cave.
Or maybe not. I guess I still have "Zombie Apocalypse" and "Meteor strike" to hang on to.