We're Too Wise For Robots To Take Our Jobs, Alibaba's Jack Ma Says (scmp.com)

Have confidence in yourself -- technology will never replace human beings, insisted self-made billionaire Jack Ma in a keynote speech at Alibaba Cloud's Computing Conference in Hangzhou. From a report: There's one simple reason for that, the Alibaba founder said - we possess wisdom. "People are getting more worried about the future, about technology replacing humans, eliminating jobs and widening the gap between the rich and the poor," said Ma. "But I think these are empty worries. Technology exists for people. We worry about technology because we lack confidence in ourselves, and imagination for the future." Ma explained that humans are the only things on Earth that are wise. "People will always surpass machines because people possess wisdom," he said. Referencing AlphaGo, the Google artificial intelligence program that beat the world's top Go player at his own game, Ma said that there was no reason humanity should be saddened by the defeat. "AlphaGo? So what? AlphaGo should compete against AlphaGo 2.0, not us. There's no need to be upset that we lost. It shows that we're smart, because we created it."

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You're gonna hear a lot of this

[rsilvergun]

from business leaders over the next few years. Lots and lots of talk about how robots aren't taking our jobs while they automate away millions of jobs. It's either that or we a) don't let them do it or b) tax the heck out of them and redistribute the wealth. And neither of those outcomes are desirable to them.

On the plus side I come from a short-lived family with poor genetics and I'm getting up there in years, so I'll probably be dead before the massive unemployment and chaos caused by the next industrial revolution.

Re:Right

[T.E.D.]

Well, the average IQ is 100, and you already know how wise average people are.

If there's one thing D&D taught me, its that Intelligence and Wisdom are two completely different things.

What you see today is what happens when a large amount of voters use Wisdom as a dump stat.

Re:If a robot can do it....

[Procrasti]

At some point the robots will be better at engineering better robots than humans too.

There is no reason AI won't be able to design, build and maintain robots... and be better at it than human too.

As soon as AI can do the work of an average AI engineer, most human intellectual work will be obsolete.

The time to start thinking about UBI is now.

Complete bollocks.

[edgedmurasame]

They don't have to take every job, they just have to take enough of them. That's bad enough.