Domingos: Future human work will shift to setting goals and verifying AI output
Pedro Domingos · Fireside Chat: Pedro Domingos, Head of Machine Learning, DE Shaw (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Oct 22, 2019 · at 34:16
Pedro Domingos, author of The Master Algorithm and Head of Machine Learning at DE Shaw, outlines human-AI interaction in a future society.
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“So we humans, right, I can see a future where our full-time occupation is to tell the, you know, algorithms what we want to do, set the objective function, set the boundaries, and then verify the solutions all the time, continuously.”
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