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We should be prepared to live in a world filled with AI and automation. Many jobs will become obsolete in the not so distant future. Since we know this is coming, society needs to prepare policies that will make sense in the new era.

-Rockwell (opinion)

Depends - how good do you want the sex to be?

Kevin here, agreeing with Rockwell: I think there's pushback against the Elon Musk-type AI warnings, especially from people within the AI community. As Andrew Ng recently said:

I think that job displacement is a huge problem, and the one that I wish we could focus on, rather than be distracted by these science fiction-ish, dystopian elements.

Adam here:

From a pure machine learning standpoint, I think unsupervised learning is going to be the next big thing in machine learning. Researchers now feed data to a machine but know both what the data is (say an image of a cat) and a label (that it is a cat)! This is called supervised learning. Much of the progress in AI is this area, and we have seen a ton of great successes in it.

How do we get machines to teach themselves? This is an art called unsupervised learning. When a baby is born, parents don't have to teach it every single thing about the world--they can learn for themselves. This is kind of tricky because how do you tell a computer what to pay attention to and what to ignore? This is not very easy, but folks in AI field are working on this. (For further reading/listening, Yann LeCunn has a great talk about this.)

My therapist told me not to discuss this issue. - Dana