At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’t Be a Job Killer

Post by ahartman00 » Wed, Jan 18, 2017, 11:47 PM UTC

vthallam wrote: post #27

cjlars wrote: post #14

There's a lot believers in technological unemployment here on HN and one thing I think that viewpoint misses is just how darn resilient humans are to changes in the economy. In the past 150 years, we've seen human manual labor replaced by mechanical labor. Think about that -- a lot of early California settlers walked here, and now you're commanding power roughly equivalent to 100 horses when you hop into your car. Ag…

True. Humans definitely will find a way to figure out what to do next if AI takes away lot of jobs. But the important thing is that the rate of which these jobs go. With the recent advances in deep learning or AI in general, the rate of loss of jobs across manufacturing, logistics, agriculture or construction is way more and i don't think we are ready to do something about it.

Post by slededit » Thu, Jan 19, 2017, 1:51 AM UTC

pbalau wrote: post #127

josho wrote: post #90

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> Except history has never had to content with automation and AI It's taken me awhile to wrap my head around this. I think I'm starting to understand the fundamental difference. In the past technology revolutionized processes. E.g. Replace horse with trains and cars. But, the human skills were never touched--they all required a driver. Whereas today, technology is reaching the point of replacing human skills. E.g. au…

Air brakes replaced human breakers on trains.

Post by Ygg2 » Mon, Jan 23, 2017, 1:26 PM UTC

vkou wrote: post #178

megablast wrote: post #152

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They are incredibly simple to use if you follow the 3 instructions. But hey, people can't even signal when turning reliable, of course a lot of people are going to have problems with these machines.

I assure you, I can reliably signal turn. I also assure you that any time an item fails to scan on the first swipe, it accuses me of being either an idiot, or a thief.