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AI-Proof: What Machines Can Never Be — Volume I: Awakening, Part II: The Machine at the Gate, Chapter 6: What AI Will Replace
A machine found the spot on the X-ray that the radiologist missed. Nobody was fired. Three posts will simply never be filled. Replacement rarely looks like a machine taking your chair. Usually it is a chair that is never offered.
3 days ago36 min read
AI-Proof: What Machines Can Never Be — Volume I: Awakening, Part II: The Machine at the Gate, Chapter 5: When Intelligence Became Cheap
Nothing is more useful than water, Adam Smith wrote, and nothing buys less. Intelligence is moving from diamond to water. Its price is falling fast. Its usefulness is not. Your wage was tied to the price, and your worth never was.
4 days ago38 min read
AI-Proof: What Machines Can Never Be — Volume I: Awakening, Part II: The Machine at the Gate
A machine read an X-ray in four seconds and found what a radiologist had missed. Nobody was fired. Part II asks what the machine is, what it replaces, what it cannot, and how far to believe it, with a date on every claim.
4 days ago6 min read
AI-Proof: What Machines Can Never Be — Volume I: Awakening, Part I: The Treasure You Already Carry, Chapter 4: Why This Matters Now
In 1930 Keynes wrote a letter to his grandchildren about a disease called technological unemployment. The letter was addressed to us. If a machine can do what you do, what are you? The terms are being set now.
4 days ago40 min read
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