Artificial Intelligence

OK, we have some GOOD news and some BAD news. The bad news is that a survey of AI (artificial intelligence) experts say that over the next few decades, robots and AI will have pretty most ALL the jobs. The good news is that will mean more leisure (fun) time for us humans not to mention it won't affect we old........er, experienced...... folks for a while. Kind of puts having kids in question though since they will NEVER move out of the house.

(Bill Taylor/ CEO)

"According to a survey of artificial intelligence experts, AI will probably be good enough to take on pretty much most of our jobs within half a century.

While there's plenty of room for debate on the details, the predicted applications of AI could serve as an alarm bell for us to consider how our economy and job market will adapt to ever smarter technology.

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and Yale University received 352 responses to a survey they'd sent out to over 1,600 academics who had presented at conferences on machine learning and neural information processing in 2015.

The survey asked the experts to assign probabilities to dates in the future that AI might be capable of performing specific tasks, from folding laundry to translating languages.

They also asked for predictions on when machines would be superior to humans in fulfilling certain occupations, such as surgery or truck-driving; when they thought AI would be better than us at all tasks; and what they thought the social impacts could be.

The researchers then combined the results to determine a range of time stretching from a low 25 percent confidence to 75 percent certain, calculating a median point when most experts were hedging their bets.

You can check out the results in the table below..."

Source: Sciencealert