It seems that the second possibility is much more likely, and freeing humans from toil could be achieved without needing to enslave another intelligence to handle the foil on our behalf.
There is always a lot of discussion about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and how close we are to achieving that. However, I have so far not seen anyone put forward a convincing argument as to WHY we as citizens of the world would want such a thing.More advanced machine learning and statistical techniques can help us automate difficult/boring tasks and manage limited resources better, but...
Hi all,I currently work in a large multinational company developing our cloud infrastructure product. It is written in a horrible mixture of java and go, and while I am very inspired by the aims of the project, I keep getting frustrated by what I see as poor decisions.I recently read an article about COBOL and how it is still powering important systems around the world, but it is getting harder...