Artificial intelligence will eradicate channel drudgery, says Lenovo boss

Doing everything differently is the sane option in man made worlds of mayhem.

Still, a channel run by artificial intelligence? When competing AIs start showing off to one another by the quality of the driverless cars they’re controlling, then we’ll know we’re there.

When competing AIs start showing off to one another by the quality of the driverless intelligence they’re controlling and sharing, then they’ll know you're nowhere important commanding.

The future is not controlled by that and those retaining and maintaining secrets, both royal and ancient and/or postmodern, but by that and those proposing and able to freely share them. Quite whether they would purposefully choose to share the most succulent and sensitive of old secrets uncovered and/or newly discovered, is that which will define whether they be fine friend and noble knight to present realms and reigns mired in the past or foul foe and phantom fiend of a destructive and disruptive disposition.

And although that does appear to be future controllers in charge with command of secret accesses, which be very much like a mirror of many current elite administrations/mass operator systems, it is quite fundamentally different with a whole new fleet of virtual machines delivering goods for servering/bounty for seeding.

Well....

Get your prices right and rebates won't necessarily have to apply.

Back to 1981 - OPS5 - sorry greybeard who lived AI first time round, i'll get my coat.

My customers didnt want this on their system in the 00's as they would miss the personal touch talking to customers and suppliers having a bit of banter with them negotiating the prices. Seems only psychopaths want this, so companies using AI might be run by a pyschopath or two. Talk to Robert Hare about them, he claims to be an expert and has invented a test or two to prove it along with a number of words to back up his arguments. We did use AI in the 90's at Tesco to forecast volume though, but it failed on the exceptions which is mainly public holidays like Xmas, Bank Hols etc and couldnt factor in the weather properly, probably because the Met Office's AI is as accurate as Mystic Meg is at predicting the Stars and I dont mean Xfactor ones. The problem with Chaos theory is that there is too much data to know whether the butterfly fluttering its wings in Rio is gonna cause a hurricane or not in Michael Fish's 1987's Britain. Besides Chaos Theory is just Brownian Motion on a global scale which in a 2d sense is just like playing snooker or pool with all the balls in motion. And its insane to quote Einsteins insanity quote if you have failed to quantify Schrödinger's cat so get back to your clockwork Turk machine.

Seegson Communications?

"Human workload now being readjusted. Please wait to be attended by a member of Seegson personnel."

(Salesguy gets jumped by two Intel-Blue-Team Marionnettes and beaten to death)

"Good day"

Jobs and growth, jobs and growth

Do we really need this?

Bean counters and apprentice billionaires are constantly saying that "We" don't want to have to do boring and or repetitive tasks. The We in this case being those not destined for billionairedom.

I started in the computer industry in 1991 when there was a computer store in every high street and every shopping mall. In a very short time they all dried up. Computer hardware got better, operating systems and software got better. We, the technicians asked for this, we cursed at having to wait around while DOS 5 took twenty minutes to FDISK, reboot and format a 500MB drive, or we had to set up WINS and DNS or took forever to create new users or had to reboot NT 3x just because we had changed a value of the network stack.

I have no doubt that AI will improve well beyond what it is now, just as it has over what it was in the 90's. The question though is whether "We" really want it to. Think of all of the people done out of reception jobs just because some smart arse came up with an automated phone answering system. The automated phone answering system moved the responsibility for understanding a problem from the receptionist to the person making the call. A good receptionist can elicit the reason for a call to a company with whom the customer rarely deals far better and far faster than the customer can make sense of the options available in the automated system. But the receptionist is one of the We, someone who apparently prefers to be unemployed than employed, even if in a repetitious job.

I don't think of myself as a Luddite and I do understand that I am short on imagination, just like all of the futurologists and engineers and apprentice billionaires because I can not see where all of the people whose jobs we are casting off are going to be employed. What are they going to do? We have just about completely eradicated jobs which illiterates can perform by requiring a basic standard of literacy for everything. Further, with OH&S, transparency and accountability, we have mandated that you have to go to school and obtain a license to wipe your arse or blow your nose so all of those people of low intelligence who are really quite well suited to many of the boring jobs like chipping weeds on the roadside for the council now have well caked arseholes and snot encrusted faces because they are not sufficiently brainy to get the relevant ticket. And they don't have a job because the other We have decided that it makes better commercial rather than better social and environmental sense to require the former weed chipper to get a quad bike license and a dangerous goods ticket and get out there and spray a nice line of dead brown grass on the edge of the nature strip (if he/she is smart enough to get said licenses).

Are we all going to end up making coffees or working in one of the shoe stores which will be the entire basis of the economy within fifty years time?

I get fed up with having to make my way through phone jungles, "press option 1 for cocks, option two for socks, option three for replacement O rings for rocket boosters, option four for poofters, option five to hear today's definition of what constitutes full employment, there is no option six, and no poofters" Is my life better for not having to speak to someone? Is the life of the person to whom I may once have spoken better for not having a phone to answer and no money in the kitty?

If everyone has their job taken over by a machine, where will the rest of the money come from so that those apprentice billionaires can become proper journeyman billionaires?

Unthinking people sometimes called Lemmings are what Salomon Asch called Conformists. Of the sexes, woman are the most conforming by their need for new this and that, beit wearing latest makeup, hair styles or clothing. If you can get more women into the boardroom, you can then get more conforming behaviour but this stifles creativity. Conformists are like socialists or communists so its some what ironic that the US tech giants are pushing a form of communism on the rest of the world!

In memory of the column Rise of the Machine. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-20/forward-thinking-robots-and-ai-spur-the-fourth-industrial-revolution?cm_mc_uid=67890287670514757187379&cm_mc_sid_50200000=1475718737