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Old 11-03-2015, 12:59 PM   #80
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Originally Posted by zamler View Post
This concern has been raised since automation has existed and feared to diminish human usefulness. The tech will not create and maintain itself, maybe some day but for the foreseeable future not at all. There were some predictions that computers would put millions permanently out of work.
Automation is much different than artificial intelligence. Automation is simply replacing human labor with machine labor; i.e.: robotics. This did put a lot of people out of work, but not on a catastrophic level.

Artificial intelligence is a whole other ball game. The theory is that a computer can learn faster than a human can, and given enough time, the computers will be learning at such a rate that they will become smarter than humans. This is a real possibility. This video does a great job explaining it. And this guy is anything but a nutjob/conspiracy theorist.



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