It’s Just So Obvious.

Peter Marshall
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

By fits and starts, in tiny little ways, the unemployment picture, AI’s getting quickly, amazingly better at what humans do naturally, is coming together quite nicely behind your noses, but you are not even paying attention, because you assume there will always be other jobs — retraining is the new word of the day. No — this time is quite different, but you won’t get it until it actually occurs, and then — oh, duh — it will be too late. r/singularity people get it very well, and are trying to act on it, but the main dufus american population is literally too blind to understand, sadly. It’s just so obvious, but you can’t see it anyway, because you don’t really WANT TO.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/next-leap-for-robots-picking-out-and-boxing-your-online-order-1500807601

Peter Marshall

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I am extremely interested in AI, especially the not-so-good side of AI weapons and AI war, although the good parts are magnificent and wonderful too, naturally.

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