Rise of the Machines! Source: Terminator series; last seen on The Online Investing AI Blog.
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As a mobile software developer, I always marvel at just how powerful these small devices have become, and how much they have woven themselves into our lives. I wonder how us Canadians and our American friends to the south are going to keep up in a competitive global landscape where Asia has more engineers than we do, as well as a better work ethic. The grass isn’t always greener, and Asia does have a problem with crony capitalism just like we do here in the West. We also still have the creativity… for now.
I also wonder how large portions of the population will cope when robots automate more and more of the landscape. Even my job as a software developer will eventually be replaced by a set of intelligent AIs.
Where do we go from there? I don’t really believe in a “rise of the machines” scenario; in fact, I’m more scared of the humans that may benefit disproportionately from such changes. On the other hand, imagine all of the cool possibilities: when you can have giant 3D printers, you can allow for an explosion of the long tail, as the fixed costs of production come down making large capital investments less necessary. I think we live in a very exciting time in world history!
What do you think?
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I am excited and threatened at the same time by these machines. I am also programmer and I know how things have developed in the past years. I myself would love to develop robots and such tailored to the needs of people, but I figured it’s not the kind of life I want yet. Right now what I find exciting are the new ideas that people come up with to make things easier, like applications for different purposes. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day, every process that people were once manually doing is automated in the computer.
I am amazed whenever I see my smartphone, because it is so much more high-tech than anything they had in Star Trek! (I mean, minus the whole teleportation and space travel bit). I have no idea where we will go eventually, but I don’t think you could ever truly replace human perception and creativity with an intelligent AI.
I think it will force more people to be a lot more knowledgeable. The only people that will be able to get jobs if more AI happen will be the ones who know how to design, develop, and manage them. Everyone else will be looking for work. Look at how the car manufacturing has changed over the years. It won’t ever be 100% takeover in my opinion.
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