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Feb. 12th, 2017 11:53 amFascinating interview with Daniel Dennett in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/12/daniel-dennett-politics-bacteria-bach-back-dawkins-trump-interview
Indeed. What happens when machines do everything? Even our thinking? Some folks already seem to prefer machines to do their thinking for them.
It seems now automation is taking over everything, and that continuing developments in AI seem to indicate that even professions like care-giving, education, and even acting (hey, the brought back Peter Cushing!) could be taken over by machines one day. My question there is: why would anybody want that? Does anybody seriously think that would be an improvement? And yet it seems to happen all the same.
I think people have stopped questioning such things. SF writers used to question these things through dystopian fiction, and yet now questioning technology seems to have fallen deeply out of fashion. We accept Cortana and Windows 10 and iphone 56 as good things in their own right, with only luddites questioning their value or utility.
I've always suspected that these days, the march of technology had a lot more to do with lining the pockets of silicon valley execs than advancing the needs of humanity, but what do I know? I still use Windows 7. . .
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/12/daniel-dennett-politics-bacteria-bach-back-dawkins-trump-interview
Indeed. What happens when machines do everything? Even our thinking? Some folks already seem to prefer machines to do their thinking for them.
It seems now automation is taking over everything, and that continuing developments in AI seem to indicate that even professions like care-giving, education, and even acting (hey, the brought back Peter Cushing!) could be taken over by machines one day. My question there is: why would anybody want that? Does anybody seriously think that would be an improvement? And yet it seems to happen all the same.
I think people have stopped questioning such things. SF writers used to question these things through dystopian fiction, and yet now questioning technology seems to have fallen deeply out of fashion. We accept Cortana and Windows 10 and iphone 56 as good things in their own right, with only luddites questioning their value or utility.
I've always suspected that these days, the march of technology had a lot more to do with lining the pockets of silicon valley execs than advancing the needs of humanity, but what do I know? I still use Windows 7. . .
