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Microsoft Researchers Offer Predictions For AI, Deep Learning (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Microsoft polled 17 women working in its research organization about the technology advances they expect to see in 2017, as well as a decade later in 2027. The researchers' predictions touch on natural language processing, machine learning, agricultural software, and virtual reality, among other topics. For virtual reality, Mar Gonzalez Franco, a researcher in Microsoft's Redmond lab, believes body tracking will improve next year, and then over the next decade we'll have "rich multi-sensorial experiences that will be capable of producing hallucinations which blend or alter perceives reality." Haptic devices will simulate touch to further enhance the sensory experience. Meanwhile, Susan Dumais, a scientist and deputy managing director at the Redmond lab, believes deep learning will help improve web search results next year. In 2027, however, the search box will disappear, she says. It'll be replaced by search that's more "ubiquitous, embedded, and contextually sensitive." She says we're already seeing some of this in voice-controlled searches through mobile and smart home devices. We might eventually be able to look things up with either sound, images, or video. Plus, our searches will respond to "current location, content, entities, and activities" without us explicitly mentioning them, she says. Of course, it's worth noting that Microsoft has been losing the search box war to Google, so it isn't surprising that the company thinks search will die. With global warming as a looming threat, Asta Roseway, principal research designer, says by 2027 famers will use AI to maintain healthy crop yields, even with "climate change, drought, and disaster." Low-energy farming solutions, like vertical farming and aquaponics, will also be essential to keeping the food supply high, she says. You can view all 17 predictions here.
Flip the gender, and watch the outraged accusations of sexism.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
... because that's all they have.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Sounds like someone has been reading William Gibson novels. This sounds exactly like SimStim or cruising The Matrix with an Ono Sendai.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
The fact that they ask only women implies there is some reason to do that,
Yet we are left to guess at what that reason is.
The most obvious is that women have a better opinion.
How is that supportable? Why would they?
This is the kind of thing people get slapped in the face with every day but never draw any conclusions from because the obvious conclusion is forbidden socially (forbidden by the media/education system (everyone sees it therefore it's morally correct and the truth)).
Obviously there is a unified agenda across all aspects of society to enforce the idea that women are equal to or better than men in all aspects of skill and knowledge and potential. The fact that this idea has to be enforced implies that it is not supported by truth. It implies the actual results of women professionals do not fit the narrative.
If not that, what else?
But for some people truth is what is commonplace. They assume everything around them has been vetted by nature or God or by better people. Just the fact that it exists to them is proof of its veracity.
These people do not understand the world. They don't understand the invention of falsehood or its applications.
How about we don't fix what isn't broken?
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I once spoke to a company who had commissioned... an extrapolation of what the next 10 years would look like in their industry... You can guess what happened over the succeeding 10 years: absolutely nothing... And in fact, 10 years later, the room no longer looks futuristic. Against all odds, its forecasts turned out to be largely accurate. And yet, the company had failed to commercialize even one of the recommendations in the attendant specification document. So I asked the company what they planned to do next; they told me they were going back to the original designers and asking them to forecast the next 10 years! The company blamed their engineers and managers for their failure to commercialize, not the designers.
TL;DR: It's actually 17 predictions for 2017 and 17 for 2027 predictions on 17 (almost) different questions about technology by 17 different MS female researchers.
TL;DR for TL;DR: some women talking about predictions
TL;DR for TL;DR for TL;DR: sry, no b**bs. only research guesses
*virtue_signal*I don't mind these are all women, I think it's great.*virtue_signal*
However, how many times on Facebook now have I seen an image of "Tumps Economic Team" noting that it's all men and a few of them named Steve to boot? (Never mind that he has already appointed a few women for various roles, or that he won the election because of a team of women)
You seriously do not think MS would be roasted if in this ay and age they came out with a think piece like this, all from men?
Heck, you are doing that RIGHT NOW.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Since every other post seems to be eye-rollinging inept trolls or meta-commentary about gender along the full spectrums, I thought I'd actually pos about the content since I read most of the article before I saw it on Slashdot...
It's more interesting than you might think as the people polled are from different technical fields, so the answers are a lot more varied than you usually get in a predictive piece.
If you take a step back though what is really interesting is how much the whole thing together looks like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, each describing only the part they could feel.. The actual future we reach by 2027 will be a really odd mash of all the answers given, where a breakthrough in any number of fields could change the dominance of one answers probability over the others..
Personally I hold out for the dark horse of computational biology taking the forefront by 2027. Perhaps that ship at the end of System Shock 2 was... US!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Pretty thinly veiled attempt by MS to get free publicity from media outlets sympathetic to SJW crusades against straight white cisgendered men.
Looks like /. is as much about culture wars as it is tech news.
In b4 AmiMoJo is triggered by this post.
I guess that in 2027 it will still spy you without the user being able to disable that.
I daresay you've had enough sandwiches for one morning.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
What I read from their predictions, especially the gig economy and getting more people into coding is that development work as a whole is commoditized, similar to meat packing, or textile making. It is done at the cheapest country worldwide, by the lowest bidders, for only the time it takes to write that module. This makes anything related to CS paying so little that it isn't worth getting into, with the earnings likely being less than working at a fast food joint.
This already is happening. Unless there is a specific industry like embedded programming or programming for a contract that the code can't be bought from the cheapest coding house in the world, the work goes offshore, and if someone has to do things in this country, it is contracted to a H-1B firm.
With this in mind, who in their right mind would want to go into development, unless they are in some niche that is very narrow and requires years of expertise. Even then, there is always the mindset of "it builds with stubs, ship it, fix after release" that is common in the industry.
Great, fake news isn't bad enough, now we will wire the fake news directly to our brains?
The summary posted mentions crop rotation but the article itself does not mention it. Thankfully using AI to perform crop rotation is not in the article. Imagine an AI telling us to rotate to different crops on the same land, I think we figured this out hundreds of years ago by illiterate farmers ( don't mean to disparage farmers, high kudos to all farmers, only trying to stress the point of dumbing down of modern society and losing our knowledge which used to be common sense and now thinking only AI could tell us how to farm properly)
Except that sudo won't work on them since they're running Windows. ;)
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