Post by account_disabled on Dec 26, 2023 5:34:43 GMT -5
Who can really boast of having their job secured in a universe, the workplace, in which machines are more and more competent? What will happen if artificial intelligence (AI) manages to surpass the capabilities of the human brain in more and more areas? Those who have sought answers to these questions in recent years have done so by dangling dramatic predictions. The machines seem destined to make humans bite the dust and perhaps also annihilate them. However, the truth is that no one knows for sure the exact number of jobs that are threatened and when they will supposedly pass away. Kai-Fu Lee, president and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, moves like a fish in water in the ocean of artificial intelligence , but still avoids putting precise numbers on the table. In his presentation at the DLD All Stars digital conference yesterday, Lee gave an account of what artificial intelligence is in a position to do (and what it is not) and also how we can prepare for its impetuous advances. In any case, Lee knows what he is talking about because he has been researching AI for years and has many years of experience on his shoulders leading large internet companies.
The four waves of artificial intelligence In Lee's opinion, the latest advances in the galaxy of artificial intelligence can be divided into four waves. The first wave is led by technology companies that, by closely Phone Number List observing the behavior of their users, come up with better recommendation algorithms and better search engines. Surfing the second wave is what Lee calls “Business AI” (insurance companies that use, for example, artificial intelligence to better classify their clients based on the risks they entail). The third wave, for its part, is embodied by computer programs with the partial or complete ability to perceive and understand what is happening in their environment . And the fourth wave is what Lee calls "autonomous AI" , that artificial intelligence capable of independently carrying out certain tasks. "One thing is clear: all of these waves will continue to develop in the years to come ," Lee prophesies. And they will change the world of work in an absolutely dramatic way. The change in its most virulent aspect will not take place in 2022 but rather in 2032, when people who today are between 30 and 40 years old could be left stranded in the middle of nowhere in the workplace.
Only relatively complex jobs (both intellectually and physically) are to some extent safe from AI Lee considers that those who carry out tasks in a repetitive and routine manner are the most vulnerable to the changes that are coming to the world of work. Radiologists, for example, could end up being replaced by computer programs capable of evaluating X-ray images more precisely and accurately than humans. Not only professions of an eminently manual nature will be threatened by artificial intelligence. Those who work daily in offices and do not believe that machines can adequately perform their jobs are also potentially in danger, Lee ventures. Yes, relatively complex jobs will be safe to a certain extent. People who combine knowledge from different areas in the performance of their work could eventually resist the onslaught of artificial intelligence. When Lee talks about complexity, she is not referring solely and exclusively to intellectually complex jobs but also to physically complex jobs. After all, “robots are not as versatile in their movements as humans,” she emphasizes.
The four waves of artificial intelligence In Lee's opinion, the latest advances in the galaxy of artificial intelligence can be divided into four waves. The first wave is led by technology companies that, by closely Phone Number List observing the behavior of their users, come up with better recommendation algorithms and better search engines. Surfing the second wave is what Lee calls “Business AI” (insurance companies that use, for example, artificial intelligence to better classify their clients based on the risks they entail). The third wave, for its part, is embodied by computer programs with the partial or complete ability to perceive and understand what is happening in their environment . And the fourth wave is what Lee calls "autonomous AI" , that artificial intelligence capable of independently carrying out certain tasks. "One thing is clear: all of these waves will continue to develop in the years to come ," Lee prophesies. And they will change the world of work in an absolutely dramatic way. The change in its most virulent aspect will not take place in 2022 but rather in 2032, when people who today are between 30 and 40 years old could be left stranded in the middle of nowhere in the workplace.
Only relatively complex jobs (both intellectually and physically) are to some extent safe from AI Lee considers that those who carry out tasks in a repetitive and routine manner are the most vulnerable to the changes that are coming to the world of work. Radiologists, for example, could end up being replaced by computer programs capable of evaluating X-ray images more precisely and accurately than humans. Not only professions of an eminently manual nature will be threatened by artificial intelligence. Those who work daily in offices and do not believe that machines can adequately perform their jobs are also potentially in danger, Lee ventures. Yes, relatively complex jobs will be safe to a certain extent. People who combine knowledge from different areas in the performance of their work could eventually resist the onslaught of artificial intelligence. When Lee talks about complexity, she is not referring solely and exclusively to intellectually complex jobs but also to physically complex jobs. After all, “robots are not as versatile in their movements as humans,” she emphasizes.