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Authors: Martin Ford
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Los Angeles Review of Books,
November 15, 2011,
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.
7
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Rough Type,
May 5, 2014,
http://www.roughtype.com/?p=4496
.
8
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/PCAST/PCAST_May3_Erik%20Brynjolfsson.pdf
, p. 28.
9
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New York Times
(The Upshot), May 2, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/05/02/upshot/FUTURE.html
.
10
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Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), pp. 54–55.
11
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November 17, 2013,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/11/17/american_basic_income_an_end_to_poverty.html
.
18
. Noah Smith, “The End of Labor: How to Protect Workers from the Rise of Robots,”
The Atlantic,
January 14, 2013,
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-end-of-labor-how-to-protect-workers-from-the-rise-of-robots/267135/
.
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New York Times,
June 6, 2014,
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C
ONCLUSION
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.
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.
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.
ABB Group,
10
accelerometer,
4–5
ACFR.
See
Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR)
adaptive learning systems,
143
Adenhart, Nick,
83
Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution,
30–31
administrative costs, higher education,
140–141
Aethon, Inc.,
154
Affordable Care Act,
151
,
165
,
167n
,
168n
,
204
,
279
aging populations,
xvii
,
220–223
,
224
AI.
See
artificial intelligence (AI)
“AI winters,”
231
Alaska, annual dividend,
268
algorithms
acceleration in development of,
71
automated trading,
56
,
113–115
increasing efficiency of,
64
machine learning,
89
,
93
,
100–101
,
107–115
,
130–131
threat to jobs,
xv
,
85–86
alien invasion parable,
194–196
,
240
“All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines” (Carr),
254
all-payer ceiling,
168–169
all-payer rates,
167–169
artificial intelligence and,
231
cloud computing and,
104–105
,
107
delivery model,
190
,
190n
“Mechanical Turk” service,
125n
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices),
70n
American Airlines,
179
American Hospital Association,
168
American Motors,
76
Andreesen, Marc,
107
Apple, Inc.,
17
,
20
,
51
,
92
,
106–107
,
279
Apple Watch,
160
apps, difficulty in monetizing,
79
Arai, Noriko,
127–128
Aramco,
68
Ariely, Dan,
47n
art, machines creating,
111–113
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI),
231–233
dark side of,
238–241
the Singularity and,
233–238
artificial intelligence (AI),
xiv
arms race and,
232
,
239–240
in medicine,
147–153
narrow,
229–230
offshoring and,
118–119
warnings concerning dangers of,
229
See also
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
;
automation
;
information technology
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Stanford University),
6
artificial neural networks,
90–92
.
See also
deep learning
The Atlantic
(magazine),
71
,
237
,
254
,
273
Audi,
184
Australian agriculture,
x–xi
,
24–25
Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR),
24–25
AutoDesk,
234
automated invention machines,
110
automated trading algorithms,
56
,
113–115
automation
alien invasion parable,
194–196
,
240
anti-automation view,
253–257
cars and (
see
autonomous cars
)
effect on Chinese manufacturing,
3
,
10–11
,
225–226
effect on prices,
215–216
health care jobs and,
172–173
information technology and,
52
job-market polarization and,
50–51
low-wage jobs and,
26–27
offshoring as precursor to,
115
,
118–119
