Oren Etzioni on Artificial Intelligence
May 18, 2016
Dr. Etzioni hit my radar with his work in search and content processing. You may be familiar with the Semantic Scholar. Queries elicit this type of output.
I read “Search Needs a Shake Up,” an idea which has appealed to me for many years. Dr. Etzioni is the CEO of a Paul Allen outfit called the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. To demonstrate the firm’s grasp of algebra, the shorthand for the company is AI2.
I wanted to highlight a comment Dr. Etzioni made in “AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni Envisions an Artificial Intelligence ‘Utopia’.” I am not interested in commenting on the concept of an AI utopia which may be dominated by Google ads and IBM Watson’s marketing.
Dr. Etzioni said, according to the article:
“An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or where human creativity still shines, in science. They’re engaged in those activities because of the interaction. Another one would be, of course, interaction between people and not because they need to make a buck.”
I also noted this statement:
“Jobs will be taken away and those people need to be taken care of. People have floated the idea of universal basic income, of negative income tax, of training programs. We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology.”
I am okay with smart software. My concern is my tax bill increasing to pay for those unable to find employment in the wonderful world apparently under construction. I have a narrow view. I would be satisfied with having potholes repaired and the grass in the park mowed.
Stephen E Arnold, May 18, 2016
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That is very fascinating, You’re an overly skilled blogger.