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

Posted by msmash on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:00AM from the different-perspectives dept.

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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Right by jasnw · 2017-10-12 07:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Sure we're wise - look who we elected President! OK, so we're fsck'd.
1. Re:Right by T.E.D. · 2017-10-12 07:43 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  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.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain by Falconnan · 2017-10-12 07:23 · Score: 5, Interesting

When the people who will benefit most greatly from an impending change tell the people who will be most harmed (possibly starved out in this case) by the same impending change that change is good, worry. When they say, "You're too smart/wise to be harmed by this change," worry more. I don't fear Skynet. I fear VIKI.
The truth is, volitional AI is nowhere seen to be on the horizon, but non-volitional AI is already here, following our rules. Or, should I say, the rules of a few people who control the system. What are the odds those rules will be good for the people already in power?