{"id":2790,"date":"2013-05-14T21:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2013-05-14T21:07:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:07:30","slug":"artificial-intelligence-coming-sooner-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/artificial-intelligence-coming-sooner-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence will be here by 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fascinating article by Kevin Drum from <strong>Mother Jones<\/strong>. He argues that rate of change in artificial intelligence matches that of computing power &#8212; it doubles about every 18 months (a phenomenon known as Moore&#8217;s Law). This means that for the first while it seems like nothing is happening and then suddenly everything happens in a rush. There&#8217;s a great animated diagram that illustrates this.<\/p>\n<p>What will be the result of computers being as smart as humans? As with every technological revolution, jobs will be lost. But this revolution is going to be different &#8212; Drum argues that eventually we&#8217;ll have to rethink the way our economy works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/media\/2013\/05\/robots-artificial-intelligence-jobs-automation\">Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don&#8217;t Fire Us?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fascinating article by Kevin Drum from Mother Jones. He argues that rate of change in artificial intelligence matches that of computing power &#8212; it doubles about every 18 months (a phenomenon known as Moore&#8217;s Law). This means that for the first while it seems like nothing is happening and then suddenly everything happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}