A.I. Taking over the world's jobs? · 2:49pm Nov 16th, 2016

So, in economics class today, I engaged in a heated debate about how A.I. will/will not replace the human workers. I found the topic quite interesting, so I have compiled some of my research here.

First of all, I am going to talk about our future, not what we have now in terms of technology. I argued that A.I. will never replace human workers completely because there are some jobs that are to sophisticated for robots to 'learn.' Yes, you heard me right, A.I. can now use a tool named 'deep learning' to 'learn' about what they have to do. Now, keep in mind that these AI's learn when they are shown hundreds, if not thousands of examples, and according to a professor I have been talking to, this reduces the chance of human error. We used the example of a cardiologist. He takes x-rays of the heart and observes any abnormalities of the x-ray. If we used an AI, it would misdiagnose rare cases, which a cardiologist would not, because being human, he can identify unique cases, and work from there, using CREATIVITY. Keep that in mind as well. Every single medical case is unique in a way, and something with AI will not, in my opinion, have enough examples to make correct deductions about ~10% of the cases, which is pretty risky if someone's life is at stake.

Then we talked about architects. Architects will never lose their jobs to a program which uses 'if this then that' commands or even 'if this don't that' and 'if this doesn't then that' and vice versa. Many architects come up with new CREATIVE ideas to innovate our current architectural designs. Can AI have an imagination? Short answer, no. Slightly longer answer: No, because an AI will depend on past experiences to produce something, and will never create something completely unique, while humans can.

People say that one day we can export our brains into a computer, and how utterly wrong are they? When my friends talk about it, I just don't have the energy to argue with them. Our brains are a complex organ, which relies on trillions of neural networks to help us recollect thoughts and compute problems. This cannot be transferred into a computer, since our brain contains trillions of possibilities of neural networks, and it is a 3D object, which cannot be stored in a computer. A recent study has concluded that our brains have over 5 PETABYTES of storage, but they also said that a brain's amount of storage space should not be measured in bytes as how much information our eyes receive in one second should not be measured in FPS.

Now this is all I have time for. I will post maybe a bit later about something else.

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