<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:18 AM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>it is only a matter of time before a machine can do your job, whatever it is, better than you can. john clark</span><br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">This assumes that AIs will become as creative and original as people. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If you propose an unusual solution to a problem that turns out to work extreamly well but I can't understand why it works and even you can't say why the idea popped into into your head then we'd say you were being creative; but that's just the situation with neural nets that teach themselves in just a few hours how to play Chess and Go at a superhuman level. They make moves that at first seem crazy but turn out to be of transcendental brilliance, and the men who built it can not explain why it made the move it did and just like a creative person the neural net cant explain how it works either.</font></font></div></div><div><span style="line-height:1.5"> </span><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>But if you are right then there are no jobs for anyone.</i></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Exactly, and things are moving so fast we'd better start taking seriously ideas we'd all (including me) consider utterly wacky just 10 years ago, like </font></span><span style="line-height:1.5"><font size="4">universal basic income<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height:1.5"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height:1.5"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></span></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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