Tom Standage

4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Tom Standage · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
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Standage: AI minds will resemble aliens or animals rather than humans
“They are going to be more like aliens or more like animals than they are like humans. I mean, the chances of them being just like humans are very small.”
Tom Standage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 38:41 a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Standage: AI automation will eliminate support and administrative jobs
“The bits you can automate are the bits that are currently, many of them are bits that are currently done for them by other people. So the typing pool, you know, we've got rid of the typing pool because we all type for ourselves. Factory worker. Exactly. So, yo…”
Tom Standage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 35:25 a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
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Standage: AI intelligence takeoff will not be exponential due to scaling limits
“But the point is that a system that's twice as good, if it's, say, an order, you know, an order, it might scale non-linearly. So it might be 256 times harder to build a system that's twice as good, and so every incremental improvement is going to take longer, …”
Tom Standage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:57 a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Standage: Non-automatable physical services represent the future of human employment
“Interior design, yoga, Zumba, whatever. That's the future of employment at coffee shops.”
Tom Standage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:13 a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
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