On 2/8/14 10:03 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
>
> <quote>
> Yes, but those situations will be beneficial when the focal point is
> dealing with issues that human beings don't handle well. Typical
> characteristics of such issues include:
>
> 1. physically challenging
> 2. emotionally challenging
> 3. repetition laden.
> </quote>
>
> I think that this characterization of computer capabilities is too
> "last century". (01)
I disagree. (02)
> It does not take into account systems like Google, Watson or the BI
> capabilities available today.
> (03)
Hmm.. (04)
Google enables me find documents faster, that's it. (05)
Watson will help subject-matter experts find relevant insights faster. A
surgeon might perform a more informed surgical operation based on output
from Watson. Surgeons may even conclude that a surgery could be
completed handled by a machine, but none of that would lead to the
elimination of humans beings in the domain of surgery. (06)
Computers are productivity tools. They will not replace human beings.
Augmentation is their destiny. (07)
> To this I would add the cases where
> 4. the relationship between concepts can best be discerned by seeking
> patterns in large amounts of data (BIG data) (08)
Sure, but I put that under the category "physically challenging". (09)
> 5. the relationships are complex and the human strength of
> intelligently reducing the scope of problems to discern simple
> relationships makes finding subtle relationships difficult and leads
> to erroneous conclusions (multivariate analysis -
> http://freakonomics.com/) (010)
Sure, but I put that under the following categories: (011)
1. physically challenging
2 emotionally challenging .
>
> Ron (012)
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