Is increasing economic inequality inevitable without catastrophe?

roethlisburger
Thu, 11 May 2017 04:48:40 +0000

If AI for example does what some are claiming, that it can take over a lot of white collar jobs (for example, intelligent systems that can recode themselves), or automate things like medicine, then it will be taking away jobs and not creating many…

AI has been slow to deliver. Google translate is laughably bad in many cases. We still don’t have level 4 autonomous vehicles. Translation and driving are both tasks, which don’t require much creativity or even complex problem solving. True AI, which can replace human judgment, problem solving, and creativity, is likely 3-4 decades away at the least.