In a recent speech, Saul Singer, the co-author of “The Start-up Nation” best seller, talks about his vision of the future smart cities and his view on how robotics can influence humans.
“Our traditional education and society forcing people to do the mechanical works, but thanks to the modern technology innovation, people will be released from these boring and meaningless things, in order to focus on developing in the fields which need more creativity and innovation. ”
“A robot is actually a software, it learns to react to the interaction with the surroundings, and we teach it how to respond to certain situations, and then it should be summarized from these examples to respond to new situations,” he explains. Its decision feedback, to determine whether it is correct, as the next improvement.
Each robot has a different degree of freedom, which can be limited by many strict rules, but too much can not benefit from the advantages of machine learning; on the other hand, if it is too free, the robot will become too decisive , This is not what we are happy to see. Google robot is an example, it mistakenly marked some people as animals.
In this regard, there are experts in the field of artificial intelligence bold prediction: the future there will be two new career there, one is to teach the mentor of the robot, the other is the robot relationship experts.
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Technological innovation can increase production, especially in the field of standardization, will only need to retain a small number of people to do technical control, or the machine can not solve the difficult circumstances to do consulting. To improve the relative output of employees is to reduce manpower needs.
Many people see this, they begin to fear. But those with a technological vision believe that this is the real opportunity for people to get rid of slavery. So far, there are still too many people in the world to imitate the machine work, there are too many education to teach people to do the machine to do things, but reduced the ability of innovation and creation. Now we can let the robot do what the machine does, leaving the rest of the time and the spirit in areas where creativity is required, which is beyond the capabilities of the machine. Such as culture, art, scientific theory and so on. When people can use values and nuances to think, and from the machine to obtain useful data, human beings can continue to flourish, do what human beings should do.
How the Future World Looks Like?
Saul Singer has a positive view of the future world, not the machine warfare rampant movie scenes.
“In the future city, we do not need to drive anymore, and people do not need to buy a car.” Singer said.
Looking into the development of unmanned vehicle technology, it is indeed possible. He also points out that since the global population is expanding rapidly, the average life expectancy increases, humans will need more living space and arable land, but the roads take up about 1/4 of the land in a developed city. If we can develop safe and intelligent transportation services, there is no need for too many cars in a world where we can use mobile phones at any time to take advantage of many road lands, increasing human habitation and activity space.
“Culture, arts and other human subjects, is the human should spend more time development direction,” This is Singer’s second point of view on the future.
“The future of the children, do not go to school every day, but the teacher live in the classroom teaching, students learn from the remote,” This is his view of future education.
All technologies are tools to serve the humans and improve human lives. Standing on the tidal wave of rapid technology changes, we should learn how to ride on top and take control.
