I've just relayed a news about inventors balance accros the wold. US is the highest net importer of inventors, with a tiny export. Germany is much below but high importer and exporter of inventors. france unsurprisingly is net exporter, no importer of inventors.
as i see from recent Nobel and inventions and startups, US is net importer of talents in nearly all domains, and exporter of ideas. about IA, we should never forget two ideas. one is that any machine will be exploited by a human, even quite intelligent, and if it is nealy not controllable, the human <ith use machine and his brain to invent something to controle the wild animal. Horses bulls dogs and cats are not stupid, are powerful in their way, but we control them. the second is that anything can be used as offensive weapon, or allowing offesive weapon usage, but the same way we can exploit them to attack, we can exploit them to fight agains their attack. what I see in Syria is Hezbolah and ISIS fighting with (commercial) drones, while US&all are still cautious and slow to adapt. What did those non governemental groups (anyway you can say it is ISIS vs Saudi "corsaire") is what startup do in business versus corps. people are afraid or killers drones, ready to kill the presidents like dis the Al Sassin sect do with manipulated fidels who terrorised the kingdoms around. they are right, but this only mean that like the Chinese we should prepare counter drones, or like the netherland, use falcons and other rapace birds (well evolved drones). we are human, not vegetables, we adapt. anyway vegetable adapt too. 2016-10-23 0:53 GMT+02:00 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>: > a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote: > > >> Yes I was referring to high school grads for that rating, but it really >> doesn't matter. >> > > You are right that it does not matter for the problem of AI replacing > jobs. However, in a separate issue, you said that our current graduates are > "dead last in the world in math and science." I do not think that is true. > It is a statistical illusion caused by our high graduation rate. If every > state and every country sent 76% of kids to college the way New York does, > they would all be far behind the U.S. They send only a tiny elite instead. > Which makes them look better. > > As it happens, they send most of their best people to U.S. universities. > Fortunately for us, these people tend to stay in the U.S. The "brain drain" > that began in the 1940s continues today, and the U.S. is the beneficiary. I > used to work with graduating classes from Georgia Tech., and I saw that. > Somehow, the U.S. has managed to capture the creme de la creme talent from > every nation on earth. Whatever we are doing right, we should keep doing it. > > I am reminded of that by the recent crop of Japanese Nobel winners. Most > of them either studied in the U.S., made the contribution that won the > prize in the U.S., or they are now U.S. citizens. Shuji Nakamura, the guy > who invented the blue LED, became an American citizen some time ago. He > wrote a book about how angry he was with Japanese society and with the > company he worked at. He is much happier in the U.S. > > So, we do not lack for engineering talent. However, as you say, that does > not help the burgeoning employment crisis caused by AI. It probably makes > it worse. > > > It is not so much the college grads that will be losing their jobs >> (although some like pharmacists etc will.) it is more that there won't be >> other jobs to go to. >> > > Yup. Big problem! > > - Jed > >
