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Imagine a world where robots drive your taxi, diagnose your illness, and even teach your yoga class. Sounds like science fiction, right? But for developing countries, this future powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast approaching. However, with this exciting new world comes a chilling question: will these same robots steal the jobs of millions, leaving economies in disarray?
Being still a developing country sometimes we forget and we have no idea what the job market will look like in 2050. It is generally agreed that machine learning and robotics will change almost every line of work – from producing yoghurt to teaching yoga. However, there are conflicting views about the nature of the change and its imminence.
Some believe that within a mere decade or two, billions of people will become economically redundant. Others maintain that even in the long run automation will keep generating new jobs and greater prosperity for all. So are we on a verge of a terrifying upheaval, or are such forecasts yet another example of ill-founded Luddite hysteria? It is hard to say.
Fears that automation will create massive unemployment go back to the nineteenth century, and so far they have never materialised. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, for every job lost to a machine at least one new job was created, and the average standard of living has increased dramatically.
There are good reasons to think that this time it is different, and that machine learning will be a real game changer. Humans have two types of abilities – physical and cognitive. In the past, machines competed with humans mainly in raw physical abilities, while humans retained abilities over machines in cognition.
Hence as manual jobs in agriculture and industry were automated, new service jobs emerged that required the kind of cognitive skills only humans possessed: learning, analysing communicating and above all understanding human emotions. However, AI is now beginning to outperform humans in more and more of these skills, including in the understanding of human emotions.
it is crucial to realize that the AI revolution is not just about computers getting faster and smarter. It is fuelled by breakthroughs in the life sciences and the social sciences as well. The better we understand the biochemical mechanisms that underpin human emotions, desires and choices, the better computers can become in analyzing human behaviour, predicting human decisions, and replacing human drivers, bankers and lawyers
Good drivers may don’t have magical intuitions about traffic, investment or negotiation they spot and try to avoid careless pedestrians
The threat of AI
"Superintelligence is a potential risk to humanity. We need to be very careful." - Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO
No wonder that even good drivers make stupid mistakes. This means that AI can outperform humans even in tasks that supposedly demand ‘intuition’. In particular, AI can be better at jobs that demand intuitions about other people. Many lines of work – such as driving a vehicle in a street full of pedestrians .
Computers automated drivers can do so far better than any human driver predicting the intentions of a pedestrian An AI equipped with the right sensors could do all that far more accurately and reliably than a human.Hence the threat of job losses. Two particularly important non-human abilities that AI possesses are connectivity and updateability.
Since humans are individuals, it is difficult to connect them to one another and to make sure that they are all up to date. In contrast, computers aren’t individuals, and it is easy to integrate them into a single flexible network.Example if there are some traffic regulation changes , all self-driving vehicles can be easily updated at exactly the same moment and
What should be done
When considering computer automation it is therefore wrong to compare the abilities of a single human driver to that of a single self-driving car. Rather, we should compare the abilities of a collection of human individuals to the abilities of an integrated network. For example all, what we ultimately ought to protect is humans – not jobs. Redundant drivers and doctors will just have to find something else to do
The sad truth
It is important to realize that no remaining human job will ever be safe from the threat of future automation, because machine learning and robotics will continue to improve And the equation for usual life is no longer linear and that we should try to adopt technological and it is not wise to competing with AI because AI might help create new human jobs in another way. If we can understand how to use them well
The world have change
Human beings have passed through various stages in life and as we thought that we have reached at a best stage and we are confortable it is important to know that we are now on another transition From exploitation to irrelevance due to fast revolution of AI our jobs become irrelevant and they are replaced with AI , even our selves we become irrelevant and we become slaves in our own planet.
In one of his speech MR Vusi Thembekwayo a south african entrepreneur and speaker said “The only saving grace we have as man kind is that once again we have to be man kind ” it is clearly true as human being we are all supposed to know that no matter how much we learn and become intelligent we cannot outlearn machines we cannot outlearn robots and AI’s as they can just be programmed easily and updated within a fractions of seconds so that they can do more than before as leaders and Tanzanians we should think on how can we cooperate more in teams , how can we become more creative and how can we become wise on the use of programs we create for our own safety we need the youth who will find a way to use AI programs wisely
Being still a developing country sometimes we forget and we have no idea what the job market will look like in 2050. It is generally agreed that machine learning and robotics will change almost every line of work – from producing yoghurt to teaching yoga. However, there are conflicting views about the nature of the change and its imminence.
Some believe that within a mere decade or two, billions of people will become economically redundant. Others maintain that even in the long run automation will keep generating new jobs and greater prosperity for all. So are we on a verge of a terrifying upheaval, or are such forecasts yet another example of ill-founded Luddite hysteria? It is hard to say.
Fears that automation will create massive unemployment go back to the nineteenth century, and so far they have never materialised. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, for every job lost to a machine at least one new job was created, and the average standard of living has increased dramatically.
There are good reasons to think that this time it is different, and that machine learning will be a real game changer. Humans have two types of abilities – physical and cognitive. In the past, machines competed with humans mainly in raw physical abilities, while humans retained abilities over machines in cognition.
Hence as manual jobs in agriculture and industry were automated, new service jobs emerged that required the kind of cognitive skills only humans possessed: learning, analysing communicating and above all understanding human emotions. However, AI is now beginning to outperform humans in more and more of these skills, including in the understanding of human emotions.
it is crucial to realize that the AI revolution is not just about computers getting faster and smarter. It is fuelled by breakthroughs in the life sciences and the social sciences as well. The better we understand the biochemical mechanisms that underpin human emotions, desires and choices, the better computers can become in analyzing human behaviour, predicting human decisions, and replacing human drivers, bankers and lawyers
Good drivers may don’t have magical intuitions about traffic, investment or negotiation they spot and try to avoid careless pedestrians
The threat of AI
"Superintelligence is a potential risk to humanity. We need to be very careful." - Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO
No wonder that even good drivers make stupid mistakes. This means that AI can outperform humans even in tasks that supposedly demand ‘intuition’. In particular, AI can be better at jobs that demand intuitions about other people. Many lines of work – such as driving a vehicle in a street full of pedestrians .
Computers automated drivers can do so far better than any human driver predicting the intentions of a pedestrian An AI equipped with the right sensors could do all that far more accurately and reliably than a human.Hence the threat of job losses. Two particularly important non-human abilities that AI possesses are connectivity and updateability.
Since humans are individuals, it is difficult to connect them to one another and to make sure that they are all up to date. In contrast, computers aren’t individuals, and it is easy to integrate them into a single flexible network.Example if there are some traffic regulation changes , all self-driving vehicles can be easily updated at exactly the same moment and
What should be done
When considering computer automation it is therefore wrong to compare the abilities of a single human driver to that of a single self-driving car. Rather, we should compare the abilities of a collection of human individuals to the abilities of an integrated network. For example all, what we ultimately ought to protect is humans – not jobs. Redundant drivers and doctors will just have to find something else to do
The sad truth
It is important to realize that no remaining human job will ever be safe from the threat of future automation, because machine learning and robotics will continue to improve And the equation for usual life is no longer linear and that we should try to adopt technological and it is not wise to competing with AI because AI might help create new human jobs in another way. If we can understand how to use them well
The world have change
Human beings have passed through various stages in life and as we thought that we have reached at a best stage and we are confortable it is important to know that we are now on another transition From exploitation to irrelevance due to fast revolution of AI our jobs become irrelevant and they are replaced with AI , even our selves we become irrelevant and we become slaves in our own planet.
In one of his speech MR Vusi Thembekwayo a south african entrepreneur and speaker said “The only saving grace we have as man kind is that once again we have to be man kind ” it is clearly true as human being we are all supposed to know that no matter how much we learn and become intelligent we cannot outlearn machines we cannot outlearn robots and AI’s as they can just be programmed easily and updated within a fractions of seconds so that they can do more than before as leaders and Tanzanians we should think on how can we cooperate more in teams , how can we become more creative and how can we become wise on the use of programs we create for our own safety we need the youth who will find a way to use AI programs wisely
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