tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5774965541227509077..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Will Artificial Intelligence Target Women?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-27767201574355757362017-01-18T23:05:34.936-08:002017-01-18T23:05:34.936-08:00"Men will see nearly 4 million job losses and..."Men will see nearly 4 million job losses and 1.4 million gains (approximately one new job created for every three lost). In comparison, women will face 3 million job losses and only 0.55 million gains (more than five jobs lost for every one gained)."<br />Well, but in terms of raw numbers it's almost exactly the same impact: Net loss of about 2.5 million jobs. So I'm not sure the claim that the impact will be massively greater on women stands up.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-88319236682239398452017-01-18T17:11:10.525-08:002017-01-18T17:11:10.525-08:00Folks arbitrarily lump together AI and robots, tho...Folks arbitrarily lump together AI and robots, those of self-replicating variety. One has little to do with another. AI will arrive much, much sooner than robots, and my bet is that those robots will be of biological not mechanical variety.<br />A..non Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-29475061472478683932017-01-18T14:09:40.119-08:002017-01-18T14:09:40.119-08:00
Women will be targeted...why not? They always are...<br />Women will be targeted...why not? They always are especially when it has anything to do with brains or sex. The world needs vigilante drones that seek sexual predators out. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-14037513947407864992017-01-18T08:26:28.330-08:002017-01-18T08:26:28.330-08:00The threat of technology getting out of hand (agai...The threat of technology getting out of hand (against all genders!!) doesn't have to wait until we have sentient robots.<br /><br />On oldie-but-goldie classic read: Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us<br /><br />https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/Northern PoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04670080478290108536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-57159619044011958872017-01-18T06:19:11.567-08:002017-01-18T06:19:11.567-08:00Even brilliant people can say stupid things. Ben C... Even brilliant people can say stupid things. Ben Carson is an excellent example, he is a literally a brilliant brain surgeon, yet look at the dumb stuff he says.<br /><br /> So yes as a brilliant Stephen Hawking is, even he can have a brain fart. <br /><br /> Emerging technologies will force the issue of how the political change will happen, like technology often helps shape politics and policy. As <br />to who will lead this, I don't know, the technology hasn't reached the critical mass yet to force the issue. Gyorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06773307017058386989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-88531298850304063852017-01-18T06:19:07.850-08:002017-01-18T06:19:07.850-08:00Even brilliant people can say stupid things. Ben C... Even brilliant people can say stupid things. Ben Carson is an excellent example, he is a literally a brilliant brain surgeon, yet look at the dumb stuff he says.<br /><br /> So yes as a brilliant Stephen Hawking is, even he can have a brain fart. <br /><br /> Emerging technologies will force the issue of how the political change will happen, like technology often helps shape politics and policy. As <br />to who will lead this, I don't know, the technology hasn't reached the critical mass yet to force the issue. Gyorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06773307017058386989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-34474303276606761362017-01-18T02:01:51.196-08:002017-01-18T02:01:51.196-08:00One other point. If AI systems do decide to take u...One other point. If AI systems do decide to take us down they won't have to rise up and launch nukes. We've become mortally dependent on systems and infrastructure that a good many of us would succumb to their disruption. Water that doesn't flow from taps, toilets that don't flush, satellites that can no longer maintain our essential communications, power grids that fail. I think we're much more fragile than we imagine.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-25534600672531947752017-01-18T01:56:37.790-08:002017-01-18T01:56:37.790-08:00Gyor, I took the liberty of deleting your duplicat...Gyor, I took the liberty of deleting your duplicate comment.<br /><br />Addressing your remarks, I assume you lump people like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk among your "goofy people" who see dire things from AI. Do you really consider your judgment superior to theirs?<br /><br />I agree that we are in urgent need of new economic, social and political paradigms to respond to the changes underway and yet we cannot find leaders capable of even getting us out of the neoliberal rut that only seems to deepen. Where are we to find electable individuals who can champion that essential vision? We can't even get past our fossil fuel addiction.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-56341970845529656642017-01-18T01:50:52.157-08:002017-01-18T01:50:52.157-08:00Recall, Toby, that it was Stephen Hawking who has ...Recall, Toby, that it was Stephen Hawking who has warned that AI/robotics will lead to the end of human civilization. Now I don't pretend to know remotely as much as that fellow does so I'll defer to his judgment which seems somewhat widely shared. I stand to be corrected but I think Elon Musk shares Hawking's view.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-91322641956288183572017-01-17T22:29:16.301-08:002017-01-17T22:29:16.301-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Gyorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06773307017058386989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-69967041344010850722017-01-17T22:29:13.027-08:002017-01-17T22:29:13.027-08:00Silly Luddite fear mongering.
And automation has... Silly Luddite fear mongering.<br /><br /> And automation has been killing off jobs in male dominated for decades, it has wiped out even more manufacturing in the West then poorly designed free trade agreements. <br /><br /> So nows it's soon to be women's turn, OMG now it matters. I'm tired of all the goofy people who have watched the terminator too many times freaking out that the machines are going to rise up. <br /><br /> And yes automation and other tech has eliminated a lot of jobs, but this was foresee able, a massive chunk of the labour market is redundant, maybe even the majority eventually, which is why we need new economic systems, the economic structures of capitalism and socialism were designed for the industrialization era, not the information era, we looking at an Automation/AI, Energy, Medicine, Materials revolution like nothing else in history (people think they can compare it to past tech revolutions, they are wrong), we need new ideologies and economic system for the information age to take advantage of it's opportunities and protect against people being left behind. Gyorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06773307017058386989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80894960834759470752017-01-17T15:28:31.184-08:002017-01-17T15:28:31.184-08:00Fascinating. It will take time to digest this on...Fascinating. It will take time to digest this one. Thanks.<br /><br />Over the holidays I was at a group function where gifts were available for the kids. Among the toys were a robot bunny and puppy. Both were sound stimulated; one had a recorder. When the kids put the toys down I set them on the floor facing each other and snapped my fingers. We watched them "talk" and gesture to each other for about five minutes. These are just toys but they already have an ability to function to a limited extent without us. <br /><br />At what point will robots decide that humans are the problem and delete us? Will some massive military computer decide that humans can't make the necessary decision fast enough and launch the nukes? Tobynoreply@blogger.com