Week 18

TEN AI-SAFE OCCUPATIONS

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OBJECTIVES:
WEEK 18: TEN AI-SAFE OCCUPATIONS

Performing Human Interaction

Robots already perform a small amount of human interaction and

will likely per- form more human interaction tasks in the future.

Teaching children

Spend some time at a grade school and watch the teachers herd
the children.
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Nursing

A robot can lift a patient, saving a nurse’s back. However, an AI

can’t make a decision about when, where, and how to lift the
patient because it can’t judge all the required, nonverbal patient
input correctly or understand patient psychology, such as a
penchant for telling mistruths .
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Addressing personal needs

You may think that your AI is a perfect companion. After all, it

never talks back, is always attentive, and never leaves you for
someone else. You can tell it your deepest thoughts and it won’t
laugh.
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Solving developmental issues

People with special needs require a human touch. Often, the

special need turns out to be a special gift, but only when the
caregiver recognizes it as such. Someone with a special need might
be fully functional in all but one way — it takes creativity and
imagination to discover the means to getting over the hurdle.
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Creating New Things

It’s essential to view the act of creating as one of developing new

patterns of thought. A good deep-learning application can analyze
existing patterns of thought, rely on an AI to turn those patterns
into new versions of things that have happened before, and
produce what appears to be original thought, but no creativity is
involved.
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Inventing

When people talk about inventors, they think about people like
Thomas Edison, who held 2,332 patents worldwide (1,093 in the
United States alone) for his inventions . You may still use one of his
inventions, the lightbulb, but many of his inventions, such as the
phonograph, changed the world.
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Being artistic

Humans can tell the difference because we see the patterns in

these artists’ methods: everything from choosing a canvas, to the
paint, to the style of presentation, to the topics displayed. An AI
can see these differences, too.
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Imagining the unreal

Humans constantly extend the envelope of what is real by making

the unreal possible. At one time, no one thought that humans
would fly by coming up with heavier-than-air machines. In fact,
experiments tended to support the theory that even attempting
to fly was foolish.
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Making Intuitive Decisions

Intuition is a direct perception of a truth, independent of any

reasoning process. It’s the truth of illogic, making it incredibly
hard to analyze. Humans are adept at intuition, and the most
intuitive people usually have a significant advantage over those
who aren’t intuitive.
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Investigating crime

If you watch fictional crime dramas on television, you know that

the investigator often finds one little fact that opens the entire
case, making it solvable. Real-world crime-solving works
differently. Human detectives rely on fully quantifiable knowledge
to perform their task, and sometimes the criminals make the job
all too easy as well.
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Monitoring situations in real time

An AI will monitor situations using previous data as a basis for

future decisions. In other words, the AI uses patterns to make
predictions. Most situations work fine using this pattern, which
means that an AI can actually predict what will happen in a
particular scenario with a high degree of accuracy.
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Separating fact from fiction

An AI will never be intuitive. Intuition runs counter to every rule that

is currently used to create an AI. In reading the materials that support
AN, it quickly becomes obvious that there is some sort of magic taking
place (that is, the inventors are engaged in wishful thinking) because
the theory simply doesn’t match the proposed implementation.