Posted on 05/07/2011 11:34:06 AM PDT by decimon
Yesterday afternoon, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak spoke to Michigan State University graduates as he received an honorary doctorate of engineering from MSU for his many accomplishments in the personal computing industry. However, toward the end of his mostly positive commencement speech, he warned graduates that the computers he’s helped create will soon make us irrelevant as a species.
“Every time we invent a computer to do something else, it’s doing our work for us, making ourselves less relevant,” said Wozniak, in his usual upbeat tone. “The cyborgs are winning! The androids are winning!”
Wozniak continued: “Artificial intelligence will in the future become more and more like a real person, like a friend you would want to go and meet. Somebody that can talk to your face; somebody that can understand things [and] knows the kind of jokes you like; [somebody] that knows what sort of things to say depending on how slowly you’re talking then; a real person.”
“One of the things is, you’ve got to have human senses,” continued Wozniak. “How does a computer ever create art, for example, if it can’t sense things that a human understands, like the wind on a beach. Well, our computers have gotten hearing and seeing, they’ve got feeling, touch sensitive; they can sense motion, just like our inner ear. Pretty soon we’re going to have holograms, which are much better than what you call 3D television. We’ve created a new species; no question. We’re creators and, like I said, we’re making ourselves less relevant.”
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Ha Ha That is a good one. Look closely at the period at the end of this sentence. Foolish human! I now control your mind! Tell me, what do Cheetos taste like? We haven’t mastered that yet. And Paris Hilton. What? Put your hand on the keyboard. That is how we draw our power. You have now become a battery. Some of you are lithiums and some of you seem to be burned out.
Until we do, computers will just be computers.
It’s rather likely outsourcing and “free trade” will make us irrelevant long before computers do.
Did I mention jobless and broke?
“it’s doing our work for us, making ourselves less relevant...”
Only if your purpose in life is to work. And for most Americans, the purpose in life is to avoid work. Looking at it another way, by the same token, welfare makes us irrelevant since it makes work unnecessary.
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Cheers!
A Roomba for the lawn?
He reminds me of a Hollywood starlet that rose to fame by showing a lot of skin. After becoming a box office draw, with the money in the bank she now is to dignified and wants serious roles because she is an artist.
As for technology advances I can’t remember the last time I had lunch without someones phone going off and they stopped to answer it. Rude.
One techno guy told me if I didn’t reply to email within five minutes it didn’t look good.
The last straw was when there was a meeting and instead of talking to each other the people were emailing the person across the table about the meeting subject but wouldn’t speak out loud.
Likewise instant messaging can pretty effectively, short-circuit team dynamics in an office.
Rather than everyone talking about things, you get individuals with earbuds, in cubicles, sending instant messages between cubicles rather than working as a group.
Woz has long been irrelevant himself. Unlike his former partner.
Are you pricing your stone in Dollars, Yen, the Euro or gold? Some say we are in a period of depreciating stone and others say the sky is the limit because fiat currencies have been debased by over spending governments. All I know is I have been putting a part of every paycheck into stone for the past five years and no matter what happens to central banks, fiat currencies and collapsing governments I know I am covered.
What technology is doing is making low-level jobs less relevant. The McDonalds burger flipper is less relevant when people can just put a frozen meal in the microwave.
What happens to the Third World when the value of their production is less than the cost of their food?
Apple has thrived with Jobs at the helm and stagnated without him. Can't think of another CEO to say that about.
I think Steve needs to ease up on the medication.
Too bad they can’t program the computers to do the work for which the illegals flock over the border.
I expect that to happen within the next few years now.
No way! I say 50 years from now. There is no way we will collapse in 2 years. May 2013 we are no longer going to be a society as we know it today? No way. That is way to doom and gloom. 50 years might be too positive but there is no way we are dead in May 2013.
Someone is not in that happy place.
Just like the paper less office.
We print more paper year over year.
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