“We approaching the point where machines will surpass humans in almost every task, “warned Moshe Vardi, director of the Institute for Information Technology at Rice University in Texas.
” society must address this issue now because if robots do almost everything we do as work, what we do, “he asked if Saturday alongside other experts at the annual conference of the American Society for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Washington. in order to scientifically that does not exclude the end of human labor, “the question is whether the world economy can adapt to an unemployment rate of over 50%. ” No profession is immune, not even sex workers, he launched.
Automation and robotics have revolutionized the industry in 40 years, boosting productivity at the expense of employment. The number of job creation in the manufacturing sector reached its peak in 1980 in the United States and has since continued to decline, accompanying themselves with stagnant incomes of the middle class, said Moshe Vardi.
Today there are over 200,000 industrial robots in the country and the number continues to increase.
research currently focuses on the reasoning ability of machines and progress these last twenty years are spectacular, as this expert.
“the next 25 years there is every reason to believe that progress will be equally impressive,” he added.
According to him, 10% of jobs that require driving a car in the US could disappear due to automation of driving here twenty-five years.
Bart Selman, science teacher computer at Cornell University provides meanwhile that “in two or three years (to come) standalone machines (…) will enter into society to including automated driving cars and trucks but also control surveillance drones. “
This expert explained that very significant progress has been made in the past five years including the vision and? artificial hearing enabling robots to see and hear like humans.
– human Loss of control –
Professor Selman said that investments in artificial intelligence in the United States were the highest by far in 2015 since the birth of this field of research ago fifty, citing Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Tesla, the billionaire Elon Musk, noting that the Pentagon has requested $ 19 billion for developing intelligent weapons systems.
what is worrying in this new software, s ‘agree experts, is their ability to synthesize data and perform complex tasks.
“One can wonder about the level of intelligence that these robots can reach and if humans are not likely one day lose control”, pointed Bart Selman.
British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking was particularly warned against this danger explaining that “humans are limited by slow biological evolution.” “Artificial intelligence could develop itself at a pace more rapid,” he explained.
These issues have led scientists to consider the establishment of ethical rules to guide development artificial intelligence and programs focused on safety.
Elon Musk launched in 2014 an initiative of $ 10 million for this purpose, believing that artificial intelligence was “potentially more dangerous than the nuclear” .
in 2015, a group of top-flight figures, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple, had published an open letter calling for “? s ban on autonomous weapons.”
They explained that “if a great power was developing weapons with an autonomous artificial intelligence, this would result in a dangerous race of this type? armaments”. in order to Wendel Wallach, an ethicist at Yale University, these dangers require mobilization of the international community.
the idea was he summarized Saturday “is to ensure that the technology remains a good servant does not become a dangerous master.”
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