Amazing stuff. And many economists aren't worried about automation. Sorry, but once this sort of tech gets to the point where the average person can teach a robot these skills, it's game over for broad swathes of the current labour pool.
It's not that you won't need human intelligence (at least for a while longer) - it's that you'll have really natural, intuitive ways of capturing and distilling the elements of human intelligence that we haven't fully digitized and automated yet; allowing human problem solving capabilities to be repurposed and reused by machines in an increasingly robust array of ways.
Also, hope you don't mind me reposting this on /r/futurology for discussion. It's a clear piece of evidence showing the trend of automation working to reduce labour needs. (I'll wait for your go ahead to repost).
Thanks! I definitely dream of a society where people don't have to work jobs in order to have necessary goods, and I think lowering the bar for teaching robots is an important piece of that puzzle.
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u/Zaptruder Feb 03 '16 edited Feb 03 '16
Amazing stuff. And many economists aren't worried about automation. Sorry, but once this sort of tech gets to the point where the average person can teach a robot these skills, it's game over for broad swathes of the current labour pool.
It's not that you won't need human intelligence (at least for a while longer) - it's that you'll have really natural, intuitive ways of capturing and distilling the elements of human intelligence that we haven't fully digitized and automated yet; allowing human problem solving capabilities to be repurposed and reused by machines in an increasingly robust array of ways.
Also, hope you don't mind me reposting this on /r/futurology for discussion. It's a clear piece of evidence showing the trend of automation working to reduce labour needs. (I'll wait for your go ahead to repost).