There is a subset of the SF techie scene that I call the Robot Lords -- people who work in A.I. and are absolutely convinced that A.I. is going to render most humans economically obsolete, except for a small sliver of supergeniuses who program the A.I.
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I work in ‘AI’ and detest this view (mainly b/c it reeks of hubris). For an opposite viewpoint, I can’t recommend enough this essay by Michael I Jordan (AI/stats prof at Berkeley): medium.com/@mijordan3/art. A far more realistic/compelling vision of future of human and machine.
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Yes. At this point the belief that A.I. will replace almost all human beings is a lot of faith combined with a hefty dash of chauvinism.
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I have to think this hype is largely driven by funding motivations. The addage is: “It’s called ‘Artificial Intelligence’ when you’re fundraising, ‘Machine Learning’ when you’re recruiting... and simple logistic regression when implementing.”
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“It’s just logistic regression” the AI beamed into the neural implants of the last humans on earth as it began dismantling the moon to create a Dyson Sphere.
“Don’t be afraid”