(Bloomberg View) — Predicting the course of technological progress is extremely difficult. Just because worries about human obsolescence ultimately turned out to be misplaced in the Industrial Revolution doesn’t mean that the same happy result must necessarily prevail this time around. So the persistent question about artificial intelligence — or “robots” in common parlance – is whether they will make human workers obsolete.
Recent rapid progress in machine learning — a very powerful and flexible statistical prediction technique — has raised worries that machines will soon be able to outperform humans at any conceivable task. Already, occupations that employ very […]
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