The Fuzzy and the Techie

The greatest danger . . . is not that it proves machines could be better versions of us, but that it tempts us to misunderstand ourselves as poorer versions of them.

machines are still incapable of true idea origination

the human mind teaches itself a great deal of what it knows.

the machine is entirely dependent on humans to create its internal logic, monitor it from a “control room,” and point it toward data to learn from

The machines prevailed in these other games due to sheer computing power and memory, not because of anything that could be characterized as approximating human intelligence

Technology’s promise is great, but it requires our liberal arts in equal measure, the fuzzy and the techie working together in pursuit of shared human goals.

There ought to be anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists in every cutting-edge AI lab.

define routine tasks as those that are so well understood by humans that a specific set of instructions can be written as a computer program and executed by a machine.

routine tasks, whether they are of a cognitive or manual nature, are ripe for automation, while nonroutine manual tasks and abstract cognitive tasks are relatively safe from automation, at least for quite some time.

only 5 percent of whole jobs will be automated