In the My Weekly Desk section, I will be sharing my current readings and interests.
In my first post, I want to discuss a particularly important and broad issue raised in the short video titled "Humans need not apply". This provocative material shows a scenario, in which industrial automation replaces humans. The historical perspective and current events are very well researched.
There is no question that we are at the beginning of the robotic revolution. After many decades, Artificial Intelligence is beginning to deliver spectacular solutions to real problems, even though Marvin Minsky is not impressed by the current state of research in AI. Economic pressures will inevitably force employers to remove humans performing most basic jobs from their payrolls. How to accommodate millions of workers into the future economy and society is perhaps a bigger dilemma than we can imagine. Up to this point, this was a topic found only in sci-fi novels. Many of these novels do not end on a happy note...
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