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On 09/02/2014 2:28 PM, Kingsley Idehen
wrote:
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".
I disagree.
It does not take into account systems like
Google, Watson or the BI capabilities available today.
Hmm..
Google enables me find documents faster, that's it.
Google finds the documents. I ranks them in order of relevance based
on your query and your past interests as evidenced by your web
browsing.
This was once the job of librarians and research assistants. It was
considered a skilled occupation.
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.
So the computers will decide what surgery is to be performed and the
surgeon will do the manual labour. :-)
Will the continued involvement of humans in the process be because
we are required or because we can not give it up.
Computers are productivity tools. They will not replace human
beings. Augmentation is their destiny.
Agreed. We are not considering replacing the human race just trying
to understand how computers are going to develop.
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)
Sure, but I put that under the category "physically challenging".
That is a bit of a stretch of the meaning of "physical challenging".
Being able to remember millions of facts and look for patterns is
not something that a human could do even given an unlimited number
of hours or weeks or superhuman endurance.
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/)
Sure, but I put that under the following categories:
1. physically challenging
2 emotionally challenging .
It is neither of these.
It is just too complicated for humans to do.
We can not remember enough facts in a sufficient level of detail to
do the analysis required to get the right answer.
Ron
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