Computer Intuition

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[quantumanomaly]

Very well written. I think it's astounding how far machine learning has come just in the last YEAR. It's fast approaching the point where computers are better able to diagnose disease and detect cancer earlier: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90.8502&rep=rep1&type=pdf

It wont be long before we will have to contend with machines, or programs at least, making discoveries on par with nobel prize winners. Who get's the prize then? The coder that made the program, who could have little scientific background, the users that loaded the initial data, or the program that made the discovery? We're fast-tracking ourselves out of most high-paying jobs that used to rely on years of schooling, and that could be a much bigger threat than factories "stealing" the jobs of manual laborers. We long ago accepted that a machine could out-perform our bodies, but how easy will it be to accept it out-performing our minds?

[renzoarg]

Dangerous ground you're touching there. Since you elegantly avoid the fact that advanced AIs could have self consciousness. A natural human fear of being surpassed by their creations, we only keep this superiority with the "I can pull the plug whenever I want" method.

But, what will happen when machines become a VITAL part of humankind's survival, and "pulling the plug" disenvolved into millions of people starving?

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Thanks for the idea, now I've something new to add into my "to do" list of articles :D

[quantumanomaly]

yes, but before we have advanced, noticeably conscious AIs, we will have to contend with deeply-learned algorithms replacing most if not all "higher thinking" jobs. Engineering, call center service, medical diagnostics, teaching, could all easily be replaced by something that's learned but not necessarily "intelligent" per-say. Sure, this will be a stepping stone toward a true AI, but we will have to contend with machines being better than us long before we will have to worry about them being a threat to us. That's the moral and philosophical break that we will have to get over first.

[renzoarg]

If you ask me, I rather be operated by a robotic surgeon than by a human one that may've been partying all night long a few hours ago.

Just as the Industrial revolution made a lot of people lose their job (forcing them to adapt into new professions), we will have to do exactly the same thing.

One step at a time.

As I state at the start:
"Just as I am, perhaps this is an article that speaks about a "possible future" under a grandiloquent tone. I risk, in my defense to mention that we're in the middle of a new technologic and scientific leap. You, just stick to the facts; the rest is debatable."

[quantumanomaly]

Oh I 100% agree. I'd also rather have all the vehicles drive themselves. The issue is, that we can only remove so many jobs without a functioning and intelligent political system before we have a complete and utter economic collapse, which will be paired with a huge depression and possible civil war. If our governments dont wake up to these things, among other issues, no amount of awesome technology will stop us from collapsing in on ourselves.

[tosch]

Nice article, thanks!
"Who are we to stop them?" - since we have created them, doesn't this mean our capacity is still outreaching the ones of the computers or do you think our own invention will surpass us by far?
I think there are several techniques where you still can beat computers in calculating. Sounds weird but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi as an example.
And as you put it, first the computer bruteforced the matches, then they went ahead calculating with different learning techniques. In the end it will not be about power of calculations but the strategy to choose to use the calculations on.

[renzoarg]

Bruteforcing is already an archaic method of processing variables.
It'd be the astrolabe and clock vs the GPS.
We still know how it's made, but it's no longer efficient.

"Devi included calculating the cube root of 61,629,875 (395) and the seventh root of 170,859,375 (15)"
That's WAYYYY less than 10^585, so less, I cant think of an adequate proportion. Yes, it's an amazing skill; she's to math and computers what Phelps is swimming to fish.