In recent posts, I haphazardly introduced some taxonomical terms when speaking about labor automation. Here are some classification dimensions we may use. low/high intelligence-intensive task: A task may demand a low degree of intelligent thinking to solve a problem, or
Marvin Minsky was a great scientist, inventor and philosopher. He is one of my three idols: Marvin Minsky, Carl Sagan and Ray Solomonoff. I learnt much of what I needed to know about human-like AI from his books. This 2010 interview with
My personal work is replacing data scientists with human-level AI. Imagine what we can do if we can replace statisticians. It was us, scientists, who made those very developments in AI, and robotics that you elites so abstractly talked about
During my PhD, I was unfortunate to have to work with an advisor who had no sympathy for scientific and intellectual work. Strange, as it may sound, he advised me in the wrong direction and intentionally prolonged my PhD and
As we transition from AI Spring to AI Summer, we are witnessing a massive paradigm shift across several industry sectors. The current phase of labor automation seems centered around automation of low intelligence-intensive high-regularity jobs. These presently include clerks of