Welcome to Radical Thought.
In the previous video it was shown that machines
will indeed replace most human jobs.
In this video we take our discussion a step
further to ask: Can AI take over cognitive
jobs?
Let’s explore the facts.
Cognition is the mental action or process
of acquiring knowledge and understanding through
thought, experience, and the senses.
One part of understanding the world is gathering
data and another part is making sense of it
which is known as cognition.
To understand cognition let’s take an example.
If you are shown pictures of a cat for the
first time in your life; after looking at
2 or 3 pictures you can identify right away
that it’s a cat but if you show the same
pictures to the AI, it only sees a bunch of
meaningless colored squares (pixels).
It is this part of the human behaviour that
was once thought to be un-achievable by machines
because they can gather data but they cannot
make sense of that information; however it
is now changing because AI is now taking baby
step at cognitive behaviour.
This is where something called “deep learning”
comes into play.
Basically it amounts to showing the machine
a million photographs of cats and a million
photographs of not-cats, then having the AI
software adjust a million internal variables
until it can identify the photos correctly.
If we are going to have machines act and behave
like humans, we also need to train them like
humans.
This is where another technological marvel
comes into play called “computer vision”.
If you observe closely most of the things
we do in our life require us to see things
and observe, in other words our primary source
of input information is our vision.
So machines must also be able to observe using
visual input.
Already it’s started to happen that AIs
can now identify what is what.
But the next step of human like behaviour
is to identify who is who.
AIs can easily differentiate between a cat
and a human but can they also differentiate
a human from another human.
The answer is yes, they can.
Many intelligence agencies of the world use
“facial match feature” to identify certain
suspects.
AI can identify them even if their looks might
change after sometime.
This is truly remarkable soon AI will be able
to do the more artistic things as well like
journalism, law, composing a musical symphony,
hosting a talk show or perhaps even acting
in a movie.
However none of this should come as a shock
or even be worrisome for anyone because it
will also evolve the nature of the job, might
make it more interesting or even add some
unthinkable elements that we have not even
thought about.
So, can machines take over cognitive jobs?
Yes they can.
But what will we humans do when AIs take all
our jobs?
That’s a topic reserved for next time.
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