At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’t Be a Job Killer

Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’... by RA_Fisher on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @04:18PM (#13421301)

It seems like there's significant overlap between people that are afraid of AI and those that think e^x has a "knee in the curve." It's amazing they're not called out considering "the derivative of e^x is e^x" is memorized by HS calculus students daily.

- [1] Elon Musk https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/702534707464896512?

- [2] Kurzweil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near#Expone...

- [3] Gates apparently endorsed the book: http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/kurzweil.htm

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Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’... by orangutango on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @06:58PM (#13422739)

I like this visual explanation of the illusion/fallacy: http://www.abarry.org/knee.htm

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Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’... by RA_Fisher on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @08:47PM (#13423345)

Is the group-think in our industry really so bad that we can't call Musk on outing himself as failing basic calculus?

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