Mechanization and technological advancement have been boogeymen since the dawn if the industrial age, and while it has made jobs obsolete, it has never caused systemic unemployment.
Lastly, I remain skeptical of the promised abilities of AI. GIGO remains the adage of computers as they advance. If memory serves, my desktop computers approach the processing power Data's positronic android brain as stated in Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's not just a matter of processing power and command tree subroutines.
This time is different. With the onset of machine learning and deep learning as well as the infrastructure such as IoT, Cloud Computing & Big Data to support advances in ML/DL, I think we are on to something much more disruptive than any other industrial revolution we have seen in the past. I really believe in exponential curves especially in regards to AI and think we are on the base of it. I am not suggesting a straight line path, and admit there are a lot of unknown variables today, but I am looking at the rate of tech innovation and believe the rate is accelerating. Alot of disruption has happened in the last 2 decades but I believe since the last 5 years we are setting ourselves up for unimaginable disruption the next 2-3 decades in regards to robotics and AI.
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