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Speeding up the robot revolution
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by un 18y ago
I don't think you can blame globalization for that, -technology has eliminated many jobs -companies have become more efficient at "desklling" workers into more narrowly defined roles (and so paying lower wages) if you want to attack free ma
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by un 18y ago
The decreasing cost of manufactured goods, increase in quality of them, and the increase in GDP that has occurred over the past 30 years. (You can argue much of this can be attributed to technology, but a large share of it is due to outsour
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A reliable way to find startup ideas
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by un 18y ago
By elitist I meant to say cliquey, you might filter out people you would really excel
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by un 18y ago
Sounds pretty elitist, and your company might suffer for it.
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by un 18y ago
What about the children of poorer families who don't have the luxury of going to college. The above would be fine if parents/students were paying the full cost of the facilities, but in most cases its government/charity subsidized.
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by un 18y ago
But you're assuming outsourcing is bad for individuals in the US, whereas most indications are the opposite, it increases their wealth. The point about the nongrad IT worker is that he would be able to create more wealth than he would as a
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by un 18y ago
No I'm being serious, and "Awesome Dude" is in the eye of the beholder, you can only really judge that in interviewing.
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by un 18y ago
A better way to teach how to learn to learn, would be to teach a class in exactly that. The motivational speaker industry does a better job in "meta" subjects, such as "getting things done", "how to be successful", than college does. Paul G
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by un 18y ago
I would go further to say that the current system is disadvantaging rich countries immensely. I typical person without a college degree is likely to think he shouldn't even attempt to seek work such as IT (it's for those college educated ty
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by un 18y ago
Sounds like we need to end the tenure system and get the academic "pigs" off their high horses!
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by un 18y ago
In the UK, the higher education system is as you desribed in point 1, you get a degree in exactly your subject. yet they have no shortage of people who can debate on the issues you mention in point 2.
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by un 18y ago
Requiring everyone to learn some nonpractical things is a waste of societal resources. If some people want to learn something just for the sake of it, they could join reading groups/attend lectures on their own time.
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by un 18y ago
You could create certification tests for those as well - general knowledge test, creativity test, writing test, personality test
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IBM competitor to Ebay?(knowthis.com)
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by un 18y ago
If you liked that, you should see his lectures very informative, controversial and funny http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3136634457413762837&...
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How Google Can Open Up Image Labeler To Entrepreneurs And Accelerate A.I. Progress
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by un 18y ago
I'm trying to draw a parallel between how content on the web is being created and how an artificial mind might be created. If you sat down at tried to engineer a giant encyclopedia within one company/community, you would end up with britan
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by un 18y ago
My point is about the "democratization" of classifer creation. I personally am not a programmer and don't have the talent to create a startup, and there are millions more people like me. However, if there were a place where i could feed som
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Larry Smith on finding technology opportunities(economics.uwaterloo.ca)
4 points by un 18y ago|2 comments
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Larry Smith on expert systems - hidden opportunities (video)(video.google.com)
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by un 18y ago
Yes, what I'm saying is there are far too few of these, there's over a million developers out there. Even many of these strikeiron services are just news, you send a small query and get a simple result, rather than sending a complicated spr
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by un 18y ago
That's exactly my initial reason for posting this. In the singulariy enthusiast community artificial intelligence is the most important thing we as humans can create (post scarcity, immortality etc). What I was suggesting is that a "gold ru
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Computer Vision Companies(cs.ubc.ca)
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Face recognition companies(gslis.utexas.edu)
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by un 18y ago
True, they are applications of machine learning techniques and can be considered "narrow ai". What I was suggesting is more along the lines of something that can do the tasks of children, see and recongize most things, and understand langu
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by un 18y ago
A recongition task would take at most a second, to earn 100 dollars would require a little over a day of computing at that rate.
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by un 18y ago
Another application is in mobile phones that recognize objects, already being done in japan for certain objects in stores. There was also an application developed for the android platform that did some type of recognization of outdoor envir
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by un 18y ago
Mechanical turk is human powered.

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