Technology, Automation and the Future of Work

[Suleman]

@Okaychukwu

But one thing is certain: they don’t have and will never achieve intuition, instincts and self-will (I don’t believe in the apocalyptic predictions of Elon Musk and Professor Stephen Hawking) because the qualities of intuition and instincts are purely human traits:

Nobody ever mentioned intuition, instinct, and self-will. We are just discussing bots taking over a lot of human jobs.

@Okaychukwu

Moreover, and like I said initially, it’s high time we compared the cost implications of humans doing routine jobs and machines doing them (Which is more sustainable? Which is likely to drive the world into global economic recession where there wouldn’t be enough money to pay wages for jobs that add little or nothing to economic growth engine if comparisons were made?) in order to drive policies in global education curricula that will now focus on the creative and problem-solving aspects of every sector of global economy to march the rate of loss of routine jobs to machines with the creation of critical-thinking-powered jobs that only the Natural Intelligence of humans can execute, whether in the context of a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company or a low-wage earner in lowest cadre of jobs.

1. Critical-thinking powered jobs and low wage? Are you serious? Can any critical thinking powered job be low wage? If your job does indeed require "critical thinking, will you accept a low wage?

2. What does a critical thinking job actually entail? Mainly it entails analyzing situations (based on data) and making informed decisions, isn’t it?

We are creating bots that are doing that better than how a human possibly could. We are creating bots that teach themselves. They constantly get better at what they do and they never get tired.

Note that are just at the beginning of AI. If the bots already in existence in that video do or don’t impress you, wait 10 or 20 years.

@Okaychukwu

Observations from the video: horses never made mechanical minds, humans made them

Yes, and human made them (mechanical minds) in search of greater efficiency. The Same humans create factory bots that take over human jobs in the same search for greater efficiency.

The Same humans are making AI that are and “might” be taking over most “creative jobs” in the same quest for greater efficiency and ultimately greater profit.

Again, we should remember that we human are driven a lot of times by GREED. We always want to make more and think the problems we create in the process will sort themselves out. Our leaders here (driven by greed) are robbing us blind, mostly thinking we will always survive as we have thus far. We are worst for it.

The world of full of humans driven by greed making decisions at the detriment of other humans.

We all hope for a great future. AI, in my opinion, does present a lot of opportunities but also pose significant threats. It seems we are not preparing well for such threats.