We Survived Spreadsheets, and We’ll Survive AI

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We Survived Spreadsheets, and We’ll Survive AI
We Survived Spreadsheets, and We’ll Survive AI
History shows technology fuels new kinds of jobs in addition to the ones it renders obsolete
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@greg_ip
Updated Aug. 2, 2017 11:47 a.m. ET
Whether truck drivers or marketing executives, all workers consider intelligence intrinsic to how they do their jobs. No wonder the rise of “artificial intelligence” is uniquely terrifying. From Stephen Hawking to Elon Musk, we are told almost daily our jobs will soon be done more cheaply by AI.
Yet AI is too amorphous a label to actually convey anything useful about what, precisely, it’s supposed to displace. Instead, think of it as a technology that does one thing particularly well: predictions. Such as, will that mark...
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