Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00X4RH7HK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 318 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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In a world of self-driving cars and big data, smart algorithms and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day. A computer winning Jeopardy might seem like a trivial, if impressive, feat, but the same technology is making paralegals redundant as it undertakes electronic discovery, and is soon to do the same for radiologists. In Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford argues that is absolutely not the case. Increasingly, machines will be able to take care of themselves, and fewer jobs will be necessary. In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees to achieve enormous valuations, but what will be the fate of those of us not lucky or smart enough to have gotten into the great shift from human labor to computation? The more Pollyannaish, or just simply uninformed, might imagine that this industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some
Incredible book from page 75 on -- An AI Professor's Opinion migedy I have taught Artificial Intelligence (AI) for 3 decades at a major university. Until about 10 years ago, whenever someone worried about the effect of intelligent software/hardware destroying future jobs, I would always give my "buggy whip" argument, which goes like this:"When the automobile was invented it DID destroy many jobs. Makers of buggy whips and horse troughs were put out of business. But many more NEW jobs were created to replace those older jobs. Witness all the gas stations, auto mechanic shops, car fa. A darker “The Second Machine” Martin Ford is among the technologists who have warned that technology is and will increasingly displace human beings across all employment sectors. This phenomenon will threaten the structural foundation of our capitalist economies fueled by consumer spending (that accounts for close to 70% of GDP in the US).His vision regarding the exponential growth of technology (Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud computing, Internet and mobile apps, robots) is not all that different than the vision of Erik Brynjolfsson a. Thoughtful book about jobs and technology Jason Jackson I have written business software for much of my career. In my current role I am with an awesome startup that is helping simplify data management in a particular industry. We have been told things like, "Your product saved me weeks of work on this project." I have always viewed that as empowering people to do more, but in an economy where jobs start to become scarce it is really eliminating jobs as the product is adopted and we develop new features. The author lays out this same pattern on a grand scale, using the U