Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence

by Ed Felten at WhiteHouse . gov

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/05/03/preparing-future-artificial-intelligence

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Today’s AI is confined to narrow, specific tasks, and isn’t anything like the general, adaptable intelligence that humans exhibit. Despite this, AI’s influence on the world is growing. The rate of progress we have seen will have broad implications for fields ranging from healthcare to image- and voice-recognition. In healthcare, the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative and the Cancer Moonshot will rely on AI to find patterns in medical data and, ultimately, to help doctors diagnose diseases and suggest treatments to improve patient care and health outcomes.

In education, AI has the potential to help teachers customize instruction for each student’s needs. And, of course, AI plays a key role in self-driving vehicles, which have the potential to save thousands of lives, as well as in unmanned aircraft systems, which may transform global transportation, logistics systems, and countless industries over the coming decades.

Like any transformative technology, however, artificial intelligence carries some risk and presents complex policy challenges along several dimensions, from jobs and the economy to safety and regulatory questions. For example, AI will create new jobs while phasing out some old ones—magnifying the importance of programs like TechHire that are preparing our workforce with the skills to get ahead in today’s economy, and tomorrow’s. AI systems can also behave in surprising ways, and we’re increasingly relying on AI to advise decisions and operate physical and virtual machinery—adding to the challenge of predicting and controlling how complex technologies will behave.

There are tremendous opportunities and an array of considerations across the Federal Government in privacy, security, regulation, law, and research and development to be taken into account when effectively integrating this technology into both government and private-sector activities.



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1. Some day we can all just tell AI to post

5 lines on such-and-such theme on DU. Our AI messages can trade thoughts and battle while we read on the porch.

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2. Here is hoping liberals can get control of the economy in time for those who will be underemployed,

so lives can be well lived and the people can be the overlords of AI.....not corporations.

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3. We will. Business starts with demand. The greedy

locusts focused on piling up the fortunes right up front and didn't bother to worry about the inevitable consequences, but they, and more important, good people who care about the future of our nation, know perfectly well people without money don't buy products, don't support local or international businesses, don't pay taxes, etc.

Further advances in technology will result in fewer hours considered full-time work, eventually a lot fewer hours.

But that's on the other side of this transition we're in. Itm, those people who want better lives need to go get them for themselves. Underemployed still? Way past time to research those sectors of the jobs market that are going unfilled and train for a skill in demand. Eat potatoes 7 days a week and multitask by providing afterschool childcare while studying if that's what it takes to pay for tuition. I'm a good liberal, and we believe in assisting people in trouble, but the notion that liberals bleed for every self-made loser is not correct. Liberals don't buy into all this black-and-white we're all helpless victims of evil business crap. Our first duty to ourselves, our families, and the society we are part of is to take proper care of ourselves, and most people are living proof that it can be done.

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4. I think the people, the democracy, should decide AI and the fallout. Not corporations.