Re:The White-Collar Job Apocalypse That Didn’t Happen
by groby_b on Monday September 30, 2019 @01:27PM
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UI design will live for a long, loooong time, because every single customer is basically like "I'm somewhat of an expert myself".
Preventing them from following through on the really bad ideas is the salient part here :)
This holds, AFAICT, for translation too. Yes, you can get the gist via machine translation, for some language pairs. You cannot preserve imagery, intention, subtlety without a human int the loop.
AI is good at looking things up and beats us there. It is entirely insufficient at context & wisdom (and I don't see that changing anytime soon). Sure, the industry might choose to collectively ignore that and jump off a cliff. It's not going to end well, so I hope saner heads prevail.
Preventing them from following through on the really bad ideas is the salient part here :)
This holds, AFAICT, for translation too. Yes, you can get the gist via machine translation, for some language pairs. You cannot preserve imagery, intention, subtlety without a human int the loop.
AI is good at looking things up and beats us there. It is entirely insufficient at context & wisdom (and I don't see that changing anytime soon). Sure, the industry might choose to collectively ignore that and jump off a cliff. It's not going to end well, so I hope saner heads prevail.