Where will be the place of our children in the future?
Key Words:
- outstrip (程度或成就上)超過
- clock需時；達到一個時間
- intervention 干涉
- autonomous 自動化的
- fabricate捏造，虛構
- exaggerate誇張說法
In one or two decades, AI will outstrip many of the abilities we believe make us different from animals and machines.
In 2016, Google’s self-driving cars clocked 635,868 miles (1,023,330km), and required human intervention 124 times. That is one human intervention about every 5,000 miles (8,047km) of autonomous driving. What makes the figure impressive is, in 2015, it was 4 interventions every 5,000 miles. In order words, autonomous driving had made a 400% improvement.
Today, self-driving cars may not be a norm. It is already a reality technically.
You probably think “how nice!” We can take a nap on our way to office because AI can drive for us. But what about playing chess! A computer has beat the human chess champion a few times. And the computer is now identifying tumor for doctors and cooking recipes for chefs. AI is even helping our kids learn English😣.
I wonder what my daughters will be doing in the future. They will never solve a math question quicker. They will never lift an object heavier. They will never drive better. They are human, so they can never become the best chess player. And language, the best thing I pass down to them through telling them many good stories, is no more their advantage since real-time machine translation has made huge improvement. They are likely to lose every battle against AI, aren’t they?
No way! What exactly makes humans special? We dream, imagine, rethink, and even regret! We pretend, fabricate, exaggerate, and go crazy. That’s right! We are different from AI because we create.
Well, I am less worried about my daughters now! I am more worried about those people who learn English with AI apps. They don’t know they are actually helping AI learn English and the AI machine will take the place of human English users in return.
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