That's not really what they say, is it? They say 20% of those 55k job losses will be in customer service, of which some may be due to investments in chatbots. It's a shame that the bods at BT didn't read this study
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I'm happy to believe things when they're evident. Just be mindful though that the marketing/PR teams at tech companies are well known for getting carried away with current capabilities, and those in the tech/mainstream media often do a poor job of scrutinising those claims rather than regurgitating them.I believe quantum is a lot closer than around the corner. It might still be at the stage of the early computers in terms of design but with the knowledge and capabilities of today I believe that refinement will be a shorter process in many respects. There is a race on and big hitters like IBM will be doing their best to be the winners, as will China.
IBM reveals Osprey, the world's most powerful quantum computer
IBM has unveiled the most powerful quantum processor in the world – the Osprey, which boasts a massive 433 quantum bits (qubits). The new chip headlines a raft of advances in quantum computers that the company has announced, as it prepares for a massive leap next year.newatlas.com
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IBM Quantum is providing the most advanced quantum computing hardware and software – and partners with the largest ecosystem to bring useful quantum computing to the world.www.ibm.com
NilSatisOptimum
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They get on their bikes pick the fruit and the drive lorries...
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Proof is indeed in the pudding but there are many academic institutes at the cutting edge too. It is an area that already exists but requires refinement from fairly recent reading.
I have no doubt that as things progress some privileged deranged psychopath will use it to try and enslave us.
A big part of my work is in following the academia side of things, so I know there is some interesting work being done, but I equally know that the journey from interesting small project to mass adoption is incredibly long. Autonomous vehicles are a good example, as they're pretty good in many situations, but a mile away from roaming London's streets unaided. That final bit is often incredibly difficult from a technical, organisational, legal, and cultural standpoint.
In healthcare, for instance, getting a pilot is relatively straighforward, but deploying something at the kind of scale spoken about to justify the hype is a whole other ballgame. This perhaps explains why startups always talk in terms of the future and the possibilities rather than the reality, but the reality often never comes, so they suffer huge write downs. I mean it's hard to believe that generative AI has caught the likes of IBM by surprise, yet they've effectively mothballed Watson in healthcare because it wasn't delivering any results. You could say the same with the projects undertaken by Google and Apple. Heck, even 20 odd year old technologies like telehealth have largely struggled to take hold, even after the pandemic opened the door to them.
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A better comparator than autonomous vehicles might be the space race. I say this as there are projections that that quantum technology could threaten key infrastructure by 2030 - encryptiona and security based on existing tech. How soon that can be transferred to marketable mass produced products is a difficult question but the security issues for the wider population would need some form of innovation also. I am sure that it will make the wild west of the early internet seem like a ride in the park.
The space race is perhaps illustrative as we were all told that we'd be living on the moon and have manned missions to Mars. What we generally weren't told was that satellite infrastructure would transform huge swathes of society. There's a real tendency to try to predict the future with complete certainty when often the more sensible approach is to sit back and just see how things unfold. The chances of being blindsided by something out of the blue are miniscule.
Ahhhhnnnoooollllldddd warned us.....
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USAF Official Says He ‘Misspoke’ About AI Drone Killing Human Operator in Simulated Test
The Air Force's Chief of AI Test and Operations initially said an AI drone "killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective."
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Star Trek Voyager -DreadnoughtAhhhhnnnoooollllldddd warned us.....
USAF Official Says He ‘Misspoke’ About AI Drone Killing Human Operator in Simulated Test
The Air Force's Chief of AI Test and Operations initially said an AI drone "killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective."
AI is set on target, has malfunction. AI finds target it believes to be the original. Person who set it tries to disarm it but AI takes every attempt as a sign that the person has switched sides or been captured by the enemy and undoes any reprogramming.
All works out in the end ofc as you can't lose your chief engineer mid-series but without transporters we'd be SOL in the near future.
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Just asking a responsible grown up who you should vote for next time the opportunity arises would be a good start mate.
The real question of the day, what type of cake does AI prefer?
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