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Into the future, a comment
I find the article interesting, but I cannot avoid thinking of it as a mixed bag: a lot of different things put together and without a deeper analysis of any of them.
One of the main things that leaves me dubious is the comment about AI (Artificial Intelligence). It is widely used for image (and facial) recognition and are basic in autonomous driving cars but has a huge factor that at the moment slows down the spread of its usage: the needed for a training, in fact AI’s capabilities come after a long training with relevant cases: in such a way the software is able to learn how to behave in different situations and ‘auto-tune’ itself according to the desired behaviour indicated by the human trainer. An AI working properly in an amount of different situations, in particular if these situations are complex as an autonomous-driving car, requires thousands of representative cases to be trained with. Moreover, the human factor isn’t always predictable, and nowadays the main problem with self-driving cars is that humans drive too.
Togheter with this technical problem there is what the author intends with ‘intelligent’ in the article: is the logical intelligence he refers to? Because in that case any software is more claver that a human for a specific task. Is he fererring to the understanding of a context? A mix of these? What is the ‘intelligence’? Sci-fi tried to give an answer to this for many years. And I really don’t think they have been successfull unitil now.
About all the positive things (like farmers more autonomous thanks to robots’ help, spreading of electric cars or health improvements), I haven’t got so much to say, but that they are for sure great things, unluckily looking at what is happening around the world I am a bit skeptical about the cheapness of this means and their ability to spread in poorest contexts.
A last comment I want to do is about the decreasing necessity of non-specialized jobs. This is a reality that anyone should accept right now and its social consequences can be faced only starting to solve the future unemployment problem right now, with measures that really value the single person’s life and give to him/her the possibility to choose not to be productive. Because if everything can be produced by machines then what really matters are the art works and creative ones.
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Oh I like this perspective @Lu_Corde – it is a “mixed bag” indeed and I feel that the article is perhaps already outdated 🙄 … technology moves so fast!
I’ve sent you a google doc. If you have time, try to edit it with the correction code đź‘Ť
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I think that more than out of date is a bit too much… enthusiastic. Moreover, social and political happenings aren’t considered in it, when they have undeniable a huge impact on technological development.
I’ll give a look right now (I’m in a meeting but people who should talk are late, so it is a great moment to correct my English Homework)
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*Undeniably
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