| Had OP removed the last part of this sentence: > Some jobs have been automated, but many more have not and most likely never will be. To read: > Some jobs have been automated, but many more have not. Or > Some jobs have been automated, but many more have not and most likely will take a while. You would have nothing to complain about. As often with AI / automation, the things that seem simplest to humans are the hardest to automate and vice versa. As another example, look at translation: take an average English speaker and ask them to translate Japanese texts. They will take lots and lots of training to get good. But provide them with a literal word-for-word translation of the Japanese text into English as cheat sheet, and after a few hours of practice, she will become pretty good at rewriting those into fine English translations. Given long enough text snippets, she'll mostly be able to figure out from context how to resolve ambiguities. (She won't be perfect, of course, and professional translators bring additional skills to the game. But she'll become pretty proficient pretty quickly.) Try to do a machine to translate between human language, and you'll notice that doing the literal translation part is what's really easy for the computer, but all the context is hard. (Incidentally, that's why in the stone age of AI, people thought translation would be easy, but playing chess well would be hard.) |