The Fool wrote: > > Not all jobs will disapear instantly, but the simpler ones > will start to vanish right away. Eventually the rate at > which jobs are taken over by technology will bypass the > rate of transition to higher level jobs, > creating an economic crisis, that may in fact slow down > or halt the coming of the singularity. But I have no > doubts that eventually a robot > will be able to your job better than you ever could. > I think you have too much faith in human selflessness.
*Who* will be developing new technologies to enable AI to exist, when all technical jobs are taken by semi-intelligent robots? Every small advance requires the spark of a genius, and if all intelligent minds are driven out of the techinical field [they would seek jobs that pay more, becoming lawyers or entertainers], there would be no one left to complete the steps towards AI. And a pre-intelligent machine, by definition, can�t create anything new. Maybe this is what is happening now to the software industry. When those that get money in the industry are the vendors and the marketing people, the software becomes more vulnerable to bugs. So maybe we have reached the limit of software, with the new products being just revampering of old ones with a shiny box. Alberto Monteiro
