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Is artificial intelligence a ( job) killer?
Published: July 6, 2017 7.10am BST
Marko Robnik-
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Associate Professor of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Ljubljana
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There’s no shortage of dire warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence these days.
Modern prophets, such as physicist Stephen Hawking and investor Elon Musk, foretell the imminent
decline of humanity. With the advent of artificial general intelligence and self-designed intelligent
programs, new and more intelligent AI will appear, rapidly creating ever smarter machines that will,
eventually, surpass us.
When we reach this so-called AI singularity, our minds and bodies will be obsolete. Humans may
merge with machines and continue to evolve as cyborgs.
Is this really what we have to look forward to?
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AI’s checkered past
Not really, no.
AI, a scientific discipline rooted in computer science, mathematics, psychology, and neuroscience,
aims to create machines that mimic human cognitive functions such as learning and problem-solving.
Since the 1950s, it has captured the public’s imagination. But, historically speaking, AI’s successes
have often been followed by disappointments – caused, in large part, by the inflated predictions of
technological visionaries.
In the 1960s, one of the founders of the AI field, Herbert Simon, predicted that “machines will be
capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do.” (He said nothing about women.)
Marvin Minsky, a neural network pioneer, was more direct, “within a generation,” he said, “… the
problem of creating ‘artificial intelligence’ will substantially be solved”.
But it turns out that Niels Bohr, the early 20th century Danish physicist, was right when he
(reportedly) quipped that, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
Today, AI’s capabilities include speech recognition, superior performance at strategic games such as
chess and Go, self-driving cars, and revealing patterns embedded in complex data.
These talents have hardly rendered humans irrelevant.
Chinese Go player Ke Jie reacts during his second match against
Google’s artificial intelligence program. May 25 2017.
Reuters
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