Jerry Kaplan is a pioneer in artificial intelligence, professor of artificial intelligence and ethics at Stanford University, and author of the best-selling book The Age of Artificial Intelligence. In 1982, he founded Silicon Valley’s most storied company, Go, and designed the world’s first pen computer, which foreshadowed the iPhone and iPad more than a decade later.
Artificial intelligence is resetting the way of discourse in this era, and more and more people are joining the chorus of “ai game theory”. Jerry Kaplan, a leader in artificial intelligence, also expressed his dissent in our interview, offering the unique insight of a professor of artificial intelligence and ethics.
In the future, throw away pride and prejudice
Until recently, the general public’s perception of ARTIFICIAL intelligence has remained confined to literature and film and television depictions, with a long-held anthropomorphic bias that machines will be as smart as humans, influenced by fictionalized plots. The myriad science fiction “fantasies” make it impossible for most people to anticipate and respond to the real impact of ARTIFICIAL intelligence.
“Artificial intelligence is not the same as human intelligence,” Kaplan explains. “In the words of computer scientist Ezgerdi Koscher, ‘Whether a machine can think is like whether a submarine can swim.’ It doesn’t matter whether the websites that help you find dates or the robots that mow your lawn make the same decisions as you do, but they do it faster and more accurately and at less cost than you could ever do. The essence of AI is still a core technology. Only by understanding AI from a practical point of view can we open a new window.”
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Recent developments in artificial intelligence continue to shock the world, and will have a major impact on society. Will humanity seize the opportunity at this juncture and make the transition gracefully, or will it be battered and bruised in the process? This requires us to find the bull ‘s-eye, targeted.
Artificial intelligence is leading the way in the latest technology, giving it more positive energy, but when it comes to automation, alarm bells are everywhere. Kaplan believes that AI will eventually disrupt the calm and create two significant fundamental problems for society: a change in the labor market and a widening inequality in the distribution of wealth. If we do not seek solutions and ignore them, it will be difficult to continue the current rate of development and enter a new era of intelligence.
The job of the future requires skills to keep pace
We are in a constantly changing work mode and work mode in the process of screening, in this process inevitably appear the phenomenon of a large number of layoffs, the argument against this kind of phenomenon of rebuttal, think improve productivity increases wealth, and benefit all of them are up to, at the same time, the new work, to meet the demand of the new growth.
Kaplan argues that labour-market changes are essentially the same as global warming: facts are not what matter, rhythm is. Future unemployment reason is not because of lack of job opportunities, but the skill increases speed may couldn’t keep up with technology development, that is to say, if the rapid development of the skills required to finish the work, and training methods have no significant change of the labor force, the speed of technological change will far exceed the speed of the workers.
Many technological advances change the rules of the game by allowing businesses to restructure and rebuild how they operate, and such organizational evolution and process improvements often eliminate not only jobs but skills as well. Today’s workers may have neither the time nor the opportunity to acquire the skills needed for these new jobs, so to avoid marginalization, society needs to change its attitude and rethink how to accommodate the unemployed.
Kaplan’s concept of a “job training mortgage” is also a modern, free-market version of the traditional apprenticeship or internship model, a new way for people to apply their newly acquired skills in the most appropriate roles, while employers can draw from a larger pool of advanced workers.
The basic approach already exists. Milton Friedman, an economist, distinguished between “civic general education” and “vocational or professional education” as early as 1955, and suggested that government policy should lean towards the latter. He proposed that “in return, individuals agree to repay the government x percent of y dollars in excess of $1,000 per year of future income (income related to training skills)… The alternative, if it works, is to channel private investment in that direction.”
The continuous progress of technology promotes the accelerated evolution of the labor ecosystem, but it also faces potential dangers, which need to be re-examined and re-emphasized.
Driverless cars trigger ethical considerations
The driverless technology bred by artificial intelligence is encroachment on the blue-collar market of drivers, leaving drivers with no way out at the same time, but also presents themselves with a difficult ethical choice.
As we all know, drivers do two main things: the first is to provide a language system as participants, they use their eyes and ears to judge what is happening around them and translate it into corresponding driving actions, which are usually relatively simple, such as turning left, turning right, stepping on the brake, stepping on the gas pedal and so on. The second is navigation, getting to a given location. The new artificial intelligence technology has found a way for the machine to automatically perceive the surrounding environment to a certain extent, control the car through the computer, dynamically perceive pedestrians, vehicles and street lights and other road information, and convert it into specific instructions to control the car, which is now the hot unmanned self-driving car.
With advances in sensors, reactors and wireless communications, driverless cars could be in widespread use within a few years, and perhaps even more interesting things. But it also raises serious questions. These delicate machines need to make splintering decisions about what is right and what is wrong, ethical questions that have puzzled thinkers for millennia, even for humans. Thought kaplan imagination, “assuming that my car was going through a narrow bridge, and the other end of the bridge from a school bus full of children, because of the bridge can’t hold two cars at the same time, in order to avoid the two cars were destroyed at the same time, must choose one car fell down to the bridge, then, we will buy a willing to sacrifice themselves to save the children’s car? Will radical style be a selling point for self-driving cars? Similar moral dilemmas are no longer confined to the musings of philosophers, but will soon confront our laws.” This difficult game theory problem, we need to continue to explore the pursuit.
The future of humanity has nothing to do with science fiction
Artificial intelligence is bound to have a profound impact on human society. In the era of artificial intelligence, how will the system and operation mode of human society develop and change? No one can predict exactly. But it is possible to foresee a world in which most people will no longer be engaged in simple manual labor. Instead, they will be hosting online parties, taking the elderly on trips using virtual reality, and designing products that work with 3D printers.
The purpose of Kaplan’s book “The Age of Artificial Intelligence” is to let readers have a deeper understanding of this revolution, and to understand and distinguish the real and fantasy in the age of artificial intelligence. “If the public perception of this important technology is shaped only by science fiction movies and novels, then we can’t prepare for the very real impact it will have on how we live and work,” Kaplan told us in an interview. Knowledge rooted in fact is a better guide to the future, because the world we live in today will be very different from that future.”
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
Perhaps in the future, as Kaplan said, the society no longer needs a lot of physical labor, and many repetitive and boring jobs no longer need human beings to do them by themselves. Everyone can engage in the work they are interested in and truly enjoy every interesting day under a highly humanized system and operation mode.