Are we humans going to be outsmarted by machines? The answer is yes, the only question is when and on what aspects?
I receive internet ads for the products, mostly what I have an interest in. It is not mind reading. It is the result of precise calculation made by some big fat computer brain by Google, Amazon or Yahoo, the sites I frequently visit. Google must be the best psychiatrist I could ever have if it wanted to. It knows pretty much everything going on in my life, my goals, my insecurities, my questions, people I am interested in, kind of stories I follow, places I have visited, traveled, things I bought.... They should have a pretty good profile of me, at all level. Privacy is a false assumption. There is none exist unless you do not use the internet (which means, you should not be reading this) or mobile phone. These are necessary amenities and very cheap and addictive. The downside of being dependent on anything cheap and addictive is that there is invariably a price we need to pay. If you eat food that meets this description, then you will end up paying the hefty medical bill and probably a painful life. In the case of the internet, the price is privacy.
Machine learning algorithms are getting better every day in learning our behavior and pushing things for us to buy or giving us offers that we cannot refuse. In a few years, it will be driving us around in the form of driverless cars. The "Big brother" has already started watching people, to make them behave well and engineer a society of puppets. Where are we heading as a society? What would be the role of humans in the future society? What are the human traits that cannot be replaced by machines? These are important questions that need to be discussed, not as an intellectual exercise, but to get practical suggestions. What are some of the basic human traits that are still not adopted by machines?
(1) A unique aspect of humans, probably counter-intuitive in many ways, is our ability to make mistakes (and learn from it)! The more mistakes we make, the wiser we get.
(2) Our ability to deal with grey areas in life. Most of the computers and algorithms are still binary.
(3) Feeling of complex emotions such as empathy, joy..
(4) Think and be aware that we are thinking
(5) Conscious willingness to take a risk and not be afraid to fail.
(6) Biological propagation
(7) Ability to adapt to a new environment (become trans-human by augmenting our own perception and intelligence by coopting machine intelligence)..
I receive internet ads for the products, mostly what I have an interest in. It is not mind reading. It is the result of precise calculation made by some big fat computer brain by Google, Amazon or Yahoo, the sites I frequently visit. Google must be the best psychiatrist I could ever have if it wanted to. It knows pretty much everything going on in my life, my goals, my insecurities, my questions, people I am interested in, kind of stories I follow, places I have visited, traveled, things I bought.... They should have a pretty good profile of me, at all level. Privacy is a false assumption. There is none exist unless you do not use the internet (which means, you should not be reading this) or mobile phone. These are necessary amenities and very cheap and addictive. The downside of being dependent on anything cheap and addictive is that there is invariably a price we need to pay. If you eat food that meets this description, then you will end up paying the hefty medical bill and probably a painful life. In the case of the internet, the price is privacy.
Machine learning algorithms are getting better every day in learning our behavior and pushing things for us to buy or giving us offers that we cannot refuse. In a few years, it will be driving us around in the form of driverless cars. The "Big brother" has already started watching people, to make them behave well and engineer a society of puppets. Where are we heading as a society? What would be the role of humans in the future society? What are the human traits that cannot be replaced by machines? These are important questions that need to be discussed, not as an intellectual exercise, but to get practical suggestions. What are some of the basic human traits that are still not adopted by machines?
(1) A unique aspect of humans, probably counter-intuitive in many ways, is our ability to make mistakes (and learn from it)! The more mistakes we make, the wiser we get.
(2) Our ability to deal with grey areas in life. Most of the computers and algorithms are still binary.
(3) Feeling of complex emotions such as empathy, joy..
(4) Think and be aware that we are thinking
(5) Conscious willingness to take a risk and not be afraid to fail.
(6) Biological propagation
(7) Ability to adapt to a new environment (become trans-human by augmenting our own perception and intelligence by coopting machine intelligence)..
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