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We need to discuss how smart computers might affect the workplace and ensure that everyone enjoys the benefits
In recent years, popular culture has done a pretty good job of scaring us with the threat of machines turning on man. Just think of the red-eyed Terminator, from the movie franchise, shorn of its artificial flesh, the foot soldier of the Skynet artificial intelligence that lost patience with its human overlords and decided to wipe us out. Fortunately, that is science fiction, not science fact. The reality is that machines are among us every day and are becoming increasingly integrated into our lives in positive ways. Hence the report into machine learning, just published by the Royal Society.
Machine learning is best defined as computer systems that can learn from examples, data and experience. We interact with, and benefit from, them every day. Many smartphone apps rely on machine learning: interpreting our voices, tagging friends in photos or searching the internet. (It is also used by online retailers to make recommendations, by email spam filters and by banks to fight credit card fraud.)
April 30, 2017 at 04:11AM
from Peter Donnelly
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