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History repeats itself. When I graduated with a BA in English, it was supposedly the best degree to have because I'd be able to choose from a wide variety of careers. You can teach a monkey how to use a computer but not to have a good work ethic.
You are correct, we have been hearing about this for a while. But the technology has not existed to make this happen. It was always wishful thinking and an attempt to scare workers that their jobs are going to be automated.
However, the technology is progressing to the point that full automation is becoming a reality. What is not known is how fast workers are going to be displaced and when full automation will actually happen. Will it take 20 years or 200 years? No one knows, but that day will come. An interesting question is who is going to buy the goods and services that are going to be produced by the computers, robots, and other machines if everyone is unemployed?
Self driving cars were supposed to be the first major nightmare disruption. However, Silicon Valley is having trouble figuring out how to make the system not kill people. This was a problem years ago, since I saw interviews with machine learning experts back in 2014-15 who said they were having serious problems getting autonomous driving systems to make the right decisions about obstructions... in particular how to make the "least bad" decision, ie: rear-ending a car rather than running over pedestrians.
Now it's 2018 and apparently that is still a big wrinkle they have not fixed
It's a long way off before human drivers are replaced, unless we want to pay the infrastructure cost of dedicated self-driving-car roads.
Self driving cars were supposed to be the first major nightmare disruption. However, Silicon Valley is having trouble figuring out how to make the system not kill people. This was a problem years ago, since I saw interviews with machine learning experts back in 2014-15 who said they were having serious problems getting autonomous driving systems to make the right decisions about obstructions... in particular how to make the "least bad" decision, ie: rear-ending a car rather than running over pedestrians.
Now it's 2018 and apparently that is still a big wrinkle they have not fixed
It's a long way off before human drivers are replaced, unless we want to pay the infrastructure cost of dedicated self-driving-car roads.
Yes, it may be a while before full automation happens. But eventually they will get there, if we don't kill ourselves first.
Unemployment right now has nothing to do with it. We are nowhere near full automation yet. When most jobs start to get automated, that is where we will see the unemployment go up.
The average worker today is five times more productive than his counterpart in the 1950s, yet we do not have massive unemployment. When jobs get automated, new jobs spring up.
The average worker today is five times more productive than his counterpart in the 1950s, yet we do not have massive unemployment. When jobs get automated, new jobs spring up.
Yes, of course. Not only that, but the new jobs are much better.
I don't think that they mean degrees in "Liberal Arts," but rather degrees in English, philosophy, or other humanities. As for the rest of your claim, I think it has everything to do with the quality of the school.
That said, this was a pretty crap article. I don't see how a (decent) degree in computer science won't develop critical thinking. And why, may I ask, should I listen to a sports team owner's "prediction" that we won't be writing software in the near future? He doesn't even justify it.
English, philosophy, and other humanities areliberal arts. So are mathematics, art history, psychology, anthropology, sociology, art history, foreign languages, music, biology and area studies.
Yes. There are subgroups within the liberal fine arts, social sciences, etc.
I thought the article was timely and interesting. In fact, it is one of several articles I have read recently, about this very topic.
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