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I know the term sounds self explanatory but it really isn't.... Or maybe I am the dumbest person here.
For whatever machine learning and automation is really hot topic on CD this week.
I watched a few Youtube videos on the subject (Check out "humans need not apply" if you have 15 minutes) and I think Wikipedia sums it up nicely, "Machine learning is a field of computer science that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed."
That still sounds very vague to me.
Does that mean we will reach a point where machines can come up with useful ideas on their own. Things that we haven't even thought of yet. Things that aren't mentioned anywhere.
Let's say for example, we live in a world where, for whatever crazy reason travelling by air was unheard of. We didn't even have flying birds.
Would a machine be able to observe how we live our life, think of this new innovative way of travelling, find out the physics involved behind it and start designing airplanes???
Does that mean we will reach a point where machines can come up with useful ideas on their own. Things that we haven't even thought of yet. Things that aren't mentioned anywhere.
Let's say for example, we live in a world where, for whatever crazy reason travelling by air was unheard of. We didn't even have flying birds.
Would a machine be able to observe how we live our life, think of this new innovative way of travelling, find out the physics involved behind it and start designing airplanes???
Yes, eventually. I think the idea is to automate most things to the point where human labor is eventually no longer needed. As much as some of us hate machines when they don't work how we want them, they have a tendency to be far more capable and efficient than human beings. Once they start having the ability to "think for themselves", it's going to swiftly be game over for large swaths of human workers.
This is why we need to be forward thinking about how to eventually deal with such a world, rather than sticking our heads in the sand pretending that this sort of change is impossible or improbable.
After taking a few machine learning classes............it isn't that scary. A lot of statistics/probability,supervised/unsupervised learning. Just ways to mine all your 'data' to "find" what you want to buy next(possibly lol) The medical prediction stuff is neat
We aren't anywhere near having computers that can come up with unique ideas. AI is in its infancy and will be for decades to come. At best, all we can do is use large data sets to identify patterns which computers can use to interpolate missing information. This is very powerful, but not anywhere near generating ideas.
This is also how self driving cars, modern cell phone cameras, language processing and many functions considered AI work.
We aren't anywhere near having computers that can come up with unique ideas. AI is in its infancy and will be for decades to come. At best, all we can do is use large data sets to identify patterns which computers can use to interpolate missing information. This is very powerful, but not anywhere near generating ideas.
This is also how self driving cars, modern cell phone cameras, language processing and many functions considered AI work.
Then why on earth do so many experts believe human labor will be obsolete in the 'near future'
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Then why on earth do so many expeets believe human labor will be obsolete in the 'near future'
To get you to click on their articles and buy their books and subscribe to their blogs/youtube channels....Fear,like sex, sells. Look at all the vast numbers of people who follow Alex Jones and Infowars and believe conspiracy theories
my subaru learns supposedly, like how i like to accelerate or what ot so it can put the cvt into the "right" gear. it also learned what seat position i like so i can press a button
my subaru learns supposedly, like how i like to accelerate or what ot so it can put the cvt into the "right" gear. it also learned what seat position i like so i can press a button
My cell phone does something similar. I used to check the weather every morning but now it display it when i wake up. It learns about what topic i like to read and display trending news about it. It alerts me about traffic at almost 5pm on the weekday because it knows i am about to drive home.
That's really cool and all but if these are what machine learning is capable of then i don't see what the fuss is about...
That's really cool and all but if these are what machine learning is capable of then i don't see what the fuss is about...
Sit down and think about this deeply for a minute or two.
What was machine learning capable of just 10 years ago? 20 years ago? Did you even hear about machine learning back then?
Compare that to what it is capable of today.
Now, here's where it's going to take some creative thinking on your part. What do you think machine learning is going to be capable of in 10 years from now? 20 years from now?
Keep in mind that technology is highly evolved today. So change will happen at a far more rapid rate than it did back when we had to do a lot more manual labor alongside the technology for it to work well.
Sit down and think about this deeply for a minute or two.
What was machine learning capable of just 10 years ago? 20 years ago? Did you even hear about machine learning back then?
Compare that to what it is capable of today.
Now, here's where it's going to take some creative thinking on your part. What do you think machine learning is going to be capable of in 10 years from now? 20 years from now?
Keep in mind that technology is highly evolved today. So change will happen at a far more rapid rate than it did back when we had to do a lot more manual labor alongside the technology for it to work well.
I guess i just don't believe that Moore's Law can be applied to this as much as you..
No one knows how advanced it will be 10 - 20 years from now.. could become something awesome or die out.
I'll be impressed when i can have a thoughtful conversation with cortena or siri about random topics as if we are two ppl hanging out.. or even when Google translate can coherently put sentences together... until then.. meh..
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