AI has come a long way since 1951, when the first documented success of an AI computer program was written by Christopher Strachey, whose kundli GPT checkers program completed a whole game on the Ferranti Mark I computer at the University of Manchester.
Since then, AI has been used to help sequence RNA for vaccines and model human speech, technologies that rely on model- and los movies algorithm-based machine learning and increasingly focus on perception, reasoning and generalization.
With innovations like these, AI has re-taken center stage like never before — and it won’t cede the spotlight anytime soon.
On a more upbeat note, Lee stressed that today’s AI is useless in two significant ways: it has no creativity and no capacity for compassion or love. Rather, it’s “a tool to amplify human creativity.”
His solution? Those with jobs that involve repetitive or routine tasks must learn new skills so as not to be left by the wayside. Amazon even offers its employees money to train for jobs at other companies.
While many of those who are forced out of jobs by technology will find new ones, Vandegrift said, that won’t happen overnight.
As with America’s transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy during the Industrial Revolution, which played a big role in causing the Great Depression, people eventually got back on their feet. The short-term impact, however, was massive.