(May 21, 2017 at 8:15 pm)MellisaClarke Wrote:Well , all the good cotton pickin jobs dried when that Eli Whitney fella showed up! Progress has always upset the god given slaveholding status quo!(May 21, 2017 at 9:05 am)chimp3 Wrote: As far as I know AI has reached the level of intelligence obtained by insects. Not as smart as a mole rat yet.
They are about to replace 75 - 80% of IT jobs:
https://futurism.com/80-of-it-jobs-can-b...-exciting/
It looks like you're correct though, in terms of mapping brains, we haven't gotten to chimp level yet. (Gotten as far as rats)
But other methods like "Deep Learning" don't focus on mapping brains exactly, and that is where the job threat comes from. We have to start preparing for this jobless market.
No tellin what will happen to those god given data entry jobs once AI assumes control.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!