Will AI Take Your Job? It’s Not So Simple
A wonderful podcast from The Gradient I listened to on my late-afternoon run along the Lake Union today: Daniel Bashir interviews Professor Steven Miller on the brave new world of AI and its impact to jobs. My key takes (thank you Siri dictation!):
Augmentation is different from automation. We should strive for automating for the sake of augmentation (“bicycle for the mind”).
Comparing census 1940 to 2018, 60% of job titles are brand new.
Personal note: Labor displacement may happen in targeted sectors (as always), but overall technologies will enable humanity to venture into new problem spaces, and the universe is infinite!
Comparing to machine intelligence, humans excel at contextualization. My take: it may always be true until a real embodied AI emerges.
Personal note: Model explanation is a MUST for the era of human-AI collaboration, even at the cost of accuracy. A lot of research in AI and HCI is needed.
Organizational friction to adopt the latest tech may not be bad – it provides necessary brakes before we fully understand their implication. Tech problem is ultimately a human problem.
Originally posted on LinkedIn.