Keeping an eye on things
Congratulations to the NASA team for successfully landing the Mars Rover this evening. The most ambitious technology project yet.
Earthlings everywhere should be proud.
With technology advancing at such a rate, perhaps one day we will be able to price an insurance contract correctly? I live in hope.
Peace,
Eumaeus
When someone mentions ‘Artificial Intelligence’ I usually ignore them completely. But the subject comes up so frequently that it is impossible to ignore. Andy Haldane fretted a few weeks ago that AI might cause ‘widespread unemployment, despite an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development report earlier this year saying that fears of mass unemployment for automation were ‘overblown’ as most jobs were harder to automate than previous studies had suggested.
One of the better articles came out yesterday (9 October) quoting Roger Schank who predicts a new AI winter, ‘a reference to the period in the early 1980s when disappointment over the progress of the technology led to a retreat from the field’.