Why does such a data base not already exist?—maybe radiologists are afraid of
being left out of the picture.
Bob Cook
From: Axil Axil
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 9:13 AM
To: vortex-l
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Intelligent robots threaten millions of jobs
One advancement is global data "accumulation and application". A demetoligent
or radiologist automaton will accumulate a global data base which contains all
the images of shin cancer or the x-rays associated with a given condition from
all over the world over many decades. an AI will use that data (billions of
cases) to make a diagnosis. The diagnosis will be far more accurate based on
this data base than any experience that a human can provide by many orders of
magnitude.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ludwik Kowalski <kowals...@mail.montclair.edu> wrote:
We believed that in the next economic system, Communism, people will be
receiving goods "according to their needs, not according to their work.
In the distant future, hundreds of years from now, it is certain that things
will work out this way, because there will be no need for any human labor, and
because the technology for things like robots will be in the public domain and
available to everyone at no cost. I mean that patents will have expired, and
the technology will be so cheap with automatic replication machines that there
will be no way to charge anyone for it. Cold fusion may be the first technology
to reduce a major world-scale expense to zero, but others will surely follow.
People will eventually have all the food they want for free, or nearly for
free, from small automated farms. See:
http://www.freightfarms.com/
http://www.freightfarms.com/features/
These may even be built into houses. You see them in some Japanese
restaurants already. When you order a salad, the waitress cut the lettuce from
a glass automated greenhouse next to you.
Two hundred years from now, trying to charge the customer for the use of cold
fusion or for a new robot would be like trying to charge a person nowadays for
gathering sticks and making a bonfire, or trying to charge a person for
gathering rocks on his own property and making a stone wall in Pennsylvania.
Fire and simple stone construction techniques are millions of years old. No one
controls them.
In Pennsylvania, a skilled person can charge a lot of money to gather rocks
and build a stone retaining wall in a barn. This takes a great deal of skill,
special tools, mortar and so on. The rocks may come from the property owner's
own land a few meters away, but you can still charge for the labor. However, in
the distant future, a large robot will download the skills needed to do this,
and it will do the job for free. There may still be some incidental expenses
for mortar, specialized tools, a building permit and so on.
- Jed
