Much AI press has been focused on interesting but largely irrelevant stuff. Chess. Trolleys. Real criteria: "good enough" to do human task.
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Not only is "good enough" coming down fast, AI plus connectivity means that people will be even more replaced with "cheaper" ones abroad.
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Won't just be AI; won't just be outsourcing. It'll be someone in Bangalore doing a task in Kansas; aided by AI, paid pennies. Already here.
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Same way Facebook employs so few well-paid people in the US. It automates most tasks; pays people in Philippines etc. to do rest cheap.
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This business model —not just tech but coming to many industries—isn't compatible with a robust democracy AND current form of globalization.
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I feel we're living in the next chapter of Tuchman's great book, "The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam". All this is solvable. sigh.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted I Could Be Wrong
After wreaking havoc with the world for hundreds of years; and two global wars; and *almost* global annihilation.https://twitter.com/dansblog1/status/845310890765271040 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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I don't know how anyone who looks at the history of the previous industrial revolution and draws comfort. We almost did the whole world in.
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Things *briefly* stabilized after the *second* global war; efforts like Marshall plan, EU, UN—happened under shadow of nuclear brinkmanship.
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Consistent pattern of history is that war drives technology, not vice versa. Industrialized world has been more peaceful, not less
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Not a one way relationship at all.. Yes, war drives tech which can drive war.. Peace only through massive political intervention.
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Curious to see your case for technological causes of 20th-c wars, given how closely they followed pattern of 19th c, 18th c,...
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I'd lump both centuries as intertwined with technological upheaval and possibilities.
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