I’m a CTO. AI still needs your human expertise | Madhu Shashanka
Source: The Guardian ·
AI is increasingly getting good at doing some tasks, but it can never replace human workers’ judgmentAutonomous cars, which may be the safest we have built, keep getting easily avoidable parking tickets. While Waymos crash far less often than human drivers over tens of millions of miles, they’re still terrible at performing basic tasks – keeping out of disabled parking spots and tow-away zones,…
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Autonomous cars, which may be the safest we have built, keep getting easily avoidable parking tickets. While Waymos crash far less often than human drivers over tens of millions of miles, they’re still terrible at performing basic tasks – keeping out of disabled parking spots and tow-away zones, or steering clear of a church garage during Sunday service, according to the Wall Street Journal. That is the state of AI today: impressively capable at something complex, yet embarrassingly clumsy at something easy. And it has implications for what work will remain human and what will be automated by AI. People expect AI to lead to fewer jobs in 34 of the 37 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center. In wealthy countries like the US, Australia and South Korea, about seven in 10 expect job losses over the next 20 years. And across countries, concern among young people is rising. While fears focus on job numbers, the bigger change will be what jobs become. The nature of human work will…