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Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Jerry Kaplan
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“The second mistake is the tacit assumption that first you go to school, and when you are done, you go get a job. This made sense when jobs and skills changed on a generational timescale, but it does not in today’s fast-moving labor markets. These two phases of life need to be strongly interleaved, or at least the opportunity for new skill acquisition must be explicit and omnipresent.”
Jerry Kaplan, Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
“It should be obvious that technologies are capable of replacing teachers and professors in a wide variety of settings. The current buzzword for this is the flipped classroom—students watch lectures and learn the material online at home, then do their homework at school with the help of teachers and teaching assistants. Teachers may no longer need to prepare or deliver lectures, reducing them to what could be called “learning coaches.” The diminished skill set required is sure to transform the profession and create yet more challenges for our already beleaguered teachers.”
Jerry Kaplan, Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
“Without adjustments to our economic system and regulatory policies, we may be in for an extended period of social turmoil.”
Jerry Kaplan, Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
“The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.”
Jerry Kaplan, Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
“Which is the point: the future looks a lot more like the past than you might expect.”
Jerry Kaplan, Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
“The real problem is that the wealthy will need few, if any, people to work for them at all.”
Jerry Kaplan, Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
“It’s worth noting that IBM’s program, named Watson, had access to 200 million pages of content consuming four terabytes of memory.”
Jerry Kaplan, Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence