By
being human
If
you're doing a job that can be replaced by a machine, then you're
underperforming - by a huge way
A
machine is brilliant at dealing with what's in front of it. People
are brilliant at dealing with things that are to come. What is the
world going to be like in just 6 months time? Now a computer can
model that (thanks to a human actually doing all of the hard work for
it) but it's always wrong. Why? Because the variables are too many to
compute and we don't know all of their interactions. And yet,
somehow, people can happily work in this chaos and make reasonable
decisions and have been doing so since there were people. Sometimes,
it's so spooky, we believe that the person is in touch with the gods
or telepathic or something equally supernatural.
Technology
is a surfboard.
The
bestest, fastest supercomputer in the world can't do anything until
someone tell it what to do. "But, Phil one day computers will
decide their own purpose" you cry. Yeah, yeah, yeah! We're
having enough trouble producing Artificial Intelligence. We haven't
even started on Artificial Directiveness yet.
Thanks
to technology, I can now compose a piece of music for a 400 piece
orchestra, play it in full surround sound and even publish the sheet
music to have it played live if I wanted. The most amazing thing
about that is I have no musical training to speak of. Yet I can
contact people from around the globe who would be almost impossible
to meet any other way and get them involved in this project as well.
So
what could you do with technology that you couldn't do before?
AI
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