Last I heard AI couldn't distinguish between a cat and a dog walking into a kitchen. Leading to the breaking news story: Robot houseservant takes cat for walk; badly traumatises dog squeezing it out through catflap.

@rogerbeesley-lo5tj

8 ай бұрын

You have a point. Personally, I will believe in AI when traffic lights work efficiently.

AI could replace middle management with a kiosk on wheels

It could root out economic incompetence and fraud if programmed correctly.

@DavidEdwards-uf5lg

8 ай бұрын

It's gonna have it's work cut out then, the amount of corruption in this country, AI, IS GONNA NEED THE HELP OF ET.

AI is mostly overhyped. There are more promising technologies, and there will be no humanoids walking on the streets anywhere soon.

@uweinhamburg

9 ай бұрын

Yes, 'there will be no humanoids walking on the streets anywhere soon'. But then - who 20 years ago would have thought, that there will be cars, which in theory could drive on their own if only the laws would allow it? AI will not enter in the streets but in the offices! What do most people working in offices do? They receive data, process them and react in some way to these data. I'm retired now but have worked in offices for close to 40 years and i think that 90% of the jobs done there could be replaced by AI as easily as welding and painting jobs in the car industry have been taken over by robots. The job of a normal cobbler may be more secure than the job of a bank clerk....

@paulusbrent9987

9 ай бұрын

​@@uweinhamburgSelf-driving cars remain a distant chimera. Let's face reality: they did not deliver what was expected. And not due to the lack of permissions. Yes, AI is already in the offices (especially behind the screen when we aren't aware of it) but there is no chance that it will soon replace humans, with us leaning back and taking a holiday. There will be even more new jobs necessary for humans that AI can't do. And the car industries full of robots are still full of humans. That has its good reasons and is not just a fancy imposition of bureaucrats. We are light years away from full automatization where we can send the robots to earn our money. And more automatization has led us to more stress and burnout. Let's not fall into yet another technocratic illusion that is supposed to fix everything. AI is largely overrated.

@uweinhamburg

9 ай бұрын

@@paulusbrent9987 Well - for the car industry. At the time of Henry Ford, a worker produced perhaps 5 cars each year; in modern time, the amount of manual labor per car is around one hour! If this rate of automatization would enter (of better when it will enter) the office world, it will mean the end of several hundred million jobs. And this will not mean that humans can go on holiday, but that they are unemployed at a time when money in our social systems will be far less because of sinking contributions. I'm not a social pessimist. It's in our hands how we organize the future. AI isn't the danger, this is only human stupidity!

@paulusbrent9987

9 ай бұрын

@uweinhamburg And yet, there is no historical correlation between unemployment rates and technological progress. Yes, millions may lose their jobs because of AI, but millions of new jobs will be created because of AI and other new tech applications as well. Unemployment is caused by financial crashs, war or pandemics, not by computers or robots.

@uweinhamburg

9 ай бұрын

@@paulusbrent9987 As i have clearly written, 'It's in our hands how we organize the future'! Some rich western countries may go the way of an UBI, to give lots of people the chance to follow their dreams, make music or go to the gym every day or simply take quality time with their children. We shouldn't leave the big decisions to some huge companies but use the real chance of democracies to re-invent themselves...

You assume there was leadership to start with? Mwahahahaha . . . .

NO

@eveb.6568

9 ай бұрын

wrong. YES.

@herrglotzenschnitzengruber1510

9 ай бұрын

Leadership from the UK has finished. In this neck of the woods, ALL leadership comes from Europe, we need to get involved again orsini further into our sewage soaked quagmire. Sorry'bout that, but true.

@rogerbeesley-lo5tj

8 ай бұрын

@@herrglotzenschnitzengruber1510 It is a big conceit that Britain can, or could, offer philosophical input. It is completely untrue that Britain can give technical input. The leading institution in the world in computer science is Tsinghua University in China, MIT is second. There are British universities that are excellent but the funding is inadequate to compete for leadership in the field of AI. China is pulling away because China is the world's leading industrial power and will soon be the leading scientific power also. Britain is nowhere as an industrial power.

The eu did that.

@Randy778

9 ай бұрын

What?

@rebeccanoble6797

9 ай бұрын

@@Randy778 don't worry Randy. We've left the EU. It will take time but we can get our . Manufacturing . Fishing . Tourism . Parliamentary accountability Back. We're heading the right way. The EU quagmire is behind us.

@rebeccanoble6797

9 ай бұрын

@@Randy778 not that it matters to you. You're not even a UK resident or voter.

@eveb.6568

9 ай бұрын

LOL.

@eveb.6568

9 ай бұрын

@@rebeccanoble6797 LOL. You are pathetic. Open up your eyes. Wishful thinking doesn't solve us shooting ourselves in the foot with Brexit.