In
1765, Richard Arkwright invented a device called the water frame
Capable of spending a hundred threads at a time and easily run by a simple worker with no experience
This sparked the appropriately named Industrial Revolution with which accompanied a total change in the clothing and manufacturing industry. Now,
200 years later,
Manufacturing has taken off
Thousands of times more effective and cheaper than human labor and millions of workers have been replaced by machines
Machines have always been a friend of ours working for hours with no breaks and without complaining
Never demanding for higher income or sick days and faster than humans can ever be.
However, they have never possessed a human level of intelligence and have been incapable of making decisions or changing until recently
with the rise of artificial intelligence
We are currently teetering on the brink of a new revolution
In the 1980s the best computer he could get was a $5,000 box with a 15 mega byte hard disk. Now in
2019 for less than $500 you can obtain a one terabyte hard drive and six gigabytes of memory inside of a sleek thin
portable laptop
Such rapid growth has been called Moore's law which states that every two years
Engineers can fit twice number of transistors inside a chip at half the price and this explosive growth has led to the rise of neutral
networks mirroring those of a human brain leading to a massive explosion of research and money in the fields of artificial intelligence, although
The idea of teaching a machine over 50 years old major algorithms such as Alex net are recent as of 2012
these complex algorithms are only possible due to the GPUs and
exponential growth of technology close to that of a revolution as bold of a claim as it may seem
We are currently in a period of rapid advancement that many likened to the Industrial Revolution itself
Except this time what we are dealing with is technology infinitely more intricate and complicated than the manufacture of steel and wooden machines
Ironically enough the same issues are facing us right now as 200 years ago
Artificial intelligence describes any program where the machine is capable of learning and changing as it continues to gain more and more data
AI is capable of becoming more and more accurate just like humans
We already have AI integrated into society with our Siri or Cortana in our devices and our Alexa or Google home in our houses
Voice recognition is already a field that machines have perfected in addition to voice recognition
they have taken over our games such as chess as well as image recognition, but how exactly do they work a
Perfect example of machine learning is alpha 0 a device capable of beating humans in several board games such as chests go or shogi
Unlike a human alpha 0 perfected these games in a mere day each with little to no resources
First the rules are programmed into the device next it plays a game against itself
After the game it examines which moves are better than others and uses each game played to improve its next
After several games like this alpha zero is ready to take on the experts
The idea of learning from each data set is the founding principle of AI and why it is so dangerous
Perhaps more dangerous as a machines ability to have a perfect memory and insane speed
But how will a AI affect the feature of jobs and how well-prepared are we to face any potential changes?
How will the displaced workers adapt to the changing environment?
and will they be able to survive not all jobs are created equal and
Research done by PwC found that up to 56% of jobs from the transportation and storage industries would be replaced
While the service industry would only lose
37% in addition AI might create new opportunities where there wasn't before and
Jobs would not just be destroyed but also created despite the cloud of fear and uncertainty that surrounds the rise of artificial intelligence
The risks associated with it may not all be necessarily fact-based
We interviewed several experts in their field to gain a deeper understanding of artificial intelligence
We traveled to New Jersey where we met with Sam Zheng (not related to Allen Zheng)
the CEO of a tech startup called DeepHow that uses AI powered
Platforms to bridge the skill gap in manufacturing and the service and repair industries.
So my name is Sam Zheng (not related to Allen Zheng) and currently
I'm building an AI company called DeepHow. And I often tell people that I'm not
Actually, I don't study artificial intelligence. I study true intelligence and certainly if you look at
recent progress of AI a lot of theoretical development was inspired by
our discovery in psychology like for instance neural network
which is now is the
Very important foundation of the deep learning and that was really inspired by the human neural network
and including convolution neural network that was really inspired by a lot of the visual cognition that
Psychologist and have study and discovered. Andrew Ng who is a former professor at stanford university
So he use analogy. He said AI is like electricity
Just like centuries ago right electricity really changed many industry, right? It changed the factory
Change home. It
Changed pretty much everything change the human society
And AI so he believes will also have very significant impact have many different industries
There's a lot of automation going on because electricity
Can power the machine and that machine actually ended up replacing a lot of human labor.
so when AI
you know again now the booming of the
AI so people really worry what kind of job would be replaced, you know first and
In fact, so many people think it's not
really blue-collar type of worker and it can also impact
So called white-collar type of work by people.
Even potentially lawyers
Accountants and people in the past are doing these kind of information processing
right, even potentially your doctors or radiologists in general just like any
Computing tasks, right? So
it work
24/7 (is what he meant to say) it doesn't stop and
And you can do lots of those, you know tedious tasks, that manual labour would take a long time.
But now it is also becoming good at doing
Decision-making type of task and that actually
is a concern to people actually
It's going to also automate a lot of those information processing related type of work. We call cognitive work
And we don't know the limit. Yeah, so at this point again
people are still exploring to see
What AI is really good at?
But just from the reason advancement we can see
AI can be good at many things. Day by day we are growing more aware of artificial intelligence
But what is our generation doing in order to prepare for this quote on quote revolution?
We interviewed several of our classmates in order to find out their thoughts on AI and what they plan on doing in the future
How integrated do you think AI is in society right now?
I don't know a lot of phones have built in AI like Google assistant
You just be like, okay Google and then you do stuff the Siri as well
And then I think that's a main part of AI that people use in their everyday life, but I don't know that it's used for more
So what type of jobs do you think would be available
If AI took over? Yeah
Maybe doctors, I mean
There are machines that can still do the work of doctors, but I feel like you know, it would be much like
Successful if there were humans actually doing themself
After conducting extensive research and interviews with
Mr. Zheng (not related to Allen Zheng) and our classmates
We can see that it is clear that artificial intelligence
will have a profound impact on all aspects of life in every single existing industry if
You are ignorant and misinformed you are making a huge mistake
no one is safe and everyone will be affected but for good or for worse is difficult to tell and
if the interviews with our peers are any indication
The generation of workers that will be most affected by the rise of artificial intelligence has no idea of the man-made storm
That is about to hit. So if you have a
good understanding then you know,
certainly you're prepared
for the future cause
there can be lots of opportunities related
related to that. But certainly if people
are just ignoring
whats happening, I think
Then they should be concerned.
(Sam Zheng is not related to Allen Zheng)
