artificial intelligence

Coding is NOT it

Coding is NOT it

It’s quite fashionable for most of the tech elites to preach coding as a required skill for all kids. Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg … all seem to think that the solution to the economic problems faced by million of disenfranchised workers can be solved by turning more people into coders. Thus they are pushing for coding to become part of the common curriculum for to everyone going through the public educational system. However I think Tim Cook (like most of his peers) is short sighted and that his predecessor had much better grip on human value than him ...

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A non-alarmist perspective of the A.I.pocalypse - Part 2

A non-alarmist perspective of the A.I.pocalypse - Part 2

Let’s continue the series on why the A.I. takeover are overblown. This time I would like to talk about our static worldview and our over-reliance on prediction. Peter Thiel defines definite and indefinite optimists and pessimists in his book, “Zero to One”. He remarks that people who look at the future as slightly-altered continuation of today will tend to focus on conservation of status-quo sprinkled with interventions when some random event disturbs the emotional tranquility of the society ... 

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