A peek into the near future???

[Bubba1235]

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/analy...rs-to-the-curb/61092?tag=content;feature-roto

We are at a tipping point in the evolution of the ?Information Age,? but business culture is holding back the use of IT. In the future, decision making will be automated and managed by machine-based models far better than any human could manage. Effectively, most of what the CFO, CEO and managers do today will be done better by machines. This will have profound impacts on business, society and the economy. In the short term, the bonus-maximizing behavior of CEOs and management teams will be replaced by an ?enlightened capitalism? in which shareholders tell machines how they want their business to operate.

Before you poo-poo the idea you should read about the strides that are being made in artificial intelegence. It's almost scary.

 

[stackz]

Re: A peek into the near future???

I see several scenarios playing out.

1. AI goes the way of skynet and we are fighting that war.

2. AI goes the way of the matrix and we are all batteries.

3. more and more stuff becomes automated and more and more are without jobs to the point of chaos/war after desperation sets in.

4. we end up like the people in Wall-E

5. mad max is realized

6. we come to terms with our technology, progress to a money-less, exploration based society a-la star trek the next generation.

7. the apocalypse via the mayan calendar

 

[ezmobee]

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I think stacks watches too much TV

I'm bummed there was no "Idoicracy" reference.

 

[lncoop]

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I for one welcome our new overlords.

 

[rbh]

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I was watching a program called weird or what the other night and they were covering these points, but the one thing that holds back the machine from total AI is its lack of self awareness.

Ie, like a baby they could not feed/power themselfs when hungry.

 

[robert graham]

Re: A peek into the near future???

I love that Mad-Max, apocalyptic, nuke 'em all and take the @#$%oil scenario, but the truth is, we're probably gonna be stuck with this same old politics/money/power-driven system we've always had! Don't get your hopes up for anything new or improved!

 

[Fishing Dude too]

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Look at it like this a computer miht tell you what's wrong with a machine but can't wrench on it. I had to replace 2 electric motors at work a var drive, and fix a sensor on another machine at work friday night. Don't see a computer wrenching on a machine.

 

[stackz]

Re: A peek into the near future???

I think stacks watches too much TV

I'm bummed there was no "Idoicracy" reference.

I tried to ignore that one. lol, "its got vitamins and stuff!"

though, it creeped me out at the beginning when they did the study between the idiot breeding and the smart people breeding. its soo true! :facepalm:

 

[ezmobee]

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I tried to ignore that one. lol, "its got vitamins and stuff!"

though, it creeped me out at the beginning when they did the study between the idiot breeding and the smart people breeding. its soo true! :facepalm:

That movie was a documentary.

 

[Philip_G]

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that movie was a documentary.

i like money

 

[ajgraz]

Re: A peek into the near future???

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/analy...rs-to-the-curb/61092?tag=content;feature-roto

...Effectively, most of what the CFO, CEO and managers do today will be done better by machines...

Such machines exist today. They are called "Ouija Boards" and "Magic 8-Balls".

 

[rivermouse]

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Do away with a CEO getting paid zillions? Never going to happen...Not here

 

[southkogs]

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I give the "bots" a generation to discover golf and martini's. After that, things will be pretty much back to normal ...

Seriously, I hope it never goes that way. That'll probably be when I pull the plug and homestead out in the middle of nowhere.

 

[soggy_feet]

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Do away with a CEO getting paid zillions? Never going to happen...Not here

Agreed. Pick anyone on the street and ask them if they mind giving up their paycheck. Bet their response is colorful.....

 

[Mark42]

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Hey, I am in the biz, and I can believe it will be true eventually. All it takes is one major corporation to implement it and others will follow.

 

[stackz]

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That movie was a mockumentary.

fixed that for you.

 

[Tail_Gunner]

Re: A peek into the near future???

Never going to happen.....Man is far to vain to allow a software package to do his thinking..Now it would more than probably require congressional approval and reviewed by the courts for legal implmentation..Not in our life time is that going to happen........Ahhh then there is the EPA...

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

Re: A peek into the near future???

And all this stuff made with silicone chips will fail when my prayers are answered for many many solar storms that will render satalites and all electronics useless. Mother Nature will prevail in the end always.

 

[soggy_feet]

Re: A peek into the near future???

Look at it like this a computer miht tell you what's wrong with a machine but can't wrench on it. I had to replace 2 electric motors at work a var drive, and fix a sensor on another machine at work friday night. Don't see a computer wrenching on a machine.

Here's an article, with a video, of a robot building itself into a crude walking machine.
Gist of the article is, with modular components, the robot can build itself into whatever shape it needs for whatever task is at hand.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/robot-builds-itself-with-foam-111020.html

 

[mscher]

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And all this stuff made with silicone chips will fail when my prayers are answered for many many solar storms that will render satalites and all electronics useless. Mother Nature will prevail in the end always.

And this will be a good thing, because?