| Singularity 3 |
October 25, 2018
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| When he heard that some companies had started to use AI computers to choose their new workers, he felt an unpleasant feeling, moreover, anger. Why should young people's future be decided by AI computers? Some scientists predicted that the singularity world would be in 2045. Singularity refers to the time when the decision making by AI computers is better than humans, and the gap between humans and AI computers be greater after that time. He was an amateur about computers but he started to think about the future world. AI computers are able to make things smaller and smaller. AI computers are able to analyze things precisely. AI computers can create better products and invent new materials. Because of this, smoother movements of humanoid robots would be realized soon. AI computers can calculate fast and can analyze large data in a short period of time. AI computers can choose the best way to do something if the rules are fixed. For example, winning a game is one of their strong abilities. So in this line of thinking, the roads are fixed and the traffic laws are fixed, so auto driving should be realized soon. AI computers can analyze the climate, the weather, the lay of the land: its shape and  content. AI computers can order robots to plow, to seed, to water, and to harvest. AI computers can calculate the best ratio of contents for the best fertilizer for that particular land. Thanks to AI computers, food production would increase. AI computers can analyze diseases and can calculate how to cure them. They would order robots to produce new medicine. In the future, by AI computers' instruction, robots would operate surgeries. AI computers would pursue how to make something the cheapest. Robots would make other robots. They would make food, appliances, pills, fertilizers, cars, houses, etc. So living costs would become cheaper and cheaper. Up to this part, he could imagine. Bad people would use cheaper and better weapons produced by AI computers. Bad people would attack governments' and companies' computers. Governments would use AI computers in order to watch bad people, to search for them. People's jobs would change. The number of workers in factories, warehouses, and construction sites would decline. The numbers of drivers would decline. The number of office workers would decline, especially workers who calculated workers' salaries, tax, etc., who ordered products, who sold tickets at theaters, who operated the registers at supermarkets and other shops, who were at the reception desks, at the bank counters, guards ... Up to this part, he could imagine. Some professionals would remain. Sports players wouldn't be replaced by humanoid robots. Because in races, humans wouldn't compete against machines. Do you want to compete against a toy car? In the near future there would be some humanoid robots that could play baseball, golf, basketball, any sports for that matters. They might be training partners but people wouldn't like to watch the games between them because it would be meaningless. How about between humanoid robots? Maybe not. It's like two printers competing about printing speed. In this line of thinking, Go, chess, and shogi players wouldn't be replaced by AI computers. Singers and performers wouldn't be replaced. Actors and actresses wouldn't be replaced. Although in many films there would be more and more backgrounds made by AI computers, so there would be an elimination of many film industry jobs. Police officers and fire fighters wouldn't be replaced although some robots might help and assist them. The same would be true with the army and other military branches. Presidents, governors, mayors, assembly members wouldn't be replaced, maybe. Up to this part, he could imagine. But he wondered how writers would be in the future. He was a writer. He believed that a writer is one of the most creative jobs, and AI computers couldn't be creative like humans. He thought like this: People felt sympathy to Little Match Girl because she was a child, she was poor, she had no family, she was forced to sell matches on Christmas day when others were supposed to eat good food in a warm room. Readers felt pity because they could imagine that she was tired, cold, and hungry. Could AI computers feel tired or cold or hungry? Maybe it could feel cold using a sensor but couldn't feel hungry. If AI computers couldn't feel hungry, how could they write stories in which there appeared food scenes? AI computers don't have a life, they don't have an age, they don't have gender. They don't have a notion that they are rich or poor or in between, and because of this, they couldn't write any realistic stories that readers would need to feel sympathy, he thought. Although he didn't have certain confidence for this idea. |
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*fixed :固定された
*lay :地形
*warehouse :倉庫
*elimination :除去
*be supposed to :することになっている
*notion :概念