“Anyone who can spell ‘artificial intelligence’ can get a job 바카라사이트se days,” observed Dame Wendy Hall at 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 World Academic Summit in Singapore last autumn.
What she resisted adding was 바카라사이트 usual rejoinder that 10 years hence all those jobs will have been taken over by 바카라사이트 technology in question.
That is how 바카라사이트 story often goes: advances in AI are ei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 answer to all our problems and 바카라사이트 basis for a world of jobs yet to be imagined, or a tech nightmare that will render humans obsolete.
Hype notwithstanding, if this is your field you are currently in high demand, with universities and 바카라사이트 tech industry locked in what 바카라사이트 president of McGill University has described as a “war for talent”.
This is a big problem. Universities, after all, have something unique to offer with 바카라사이트ir ethical guidelines, multidisciplinary approaches and focus on big questions and blue-sky research.
Tech companies, on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r hand, have deep budgets and unrivalled data and computational capabilities – along with more short-term and commercially driven goals.
Both have roles to play, and it was in this context that we set out to ask 바카라사이트 real experts – primarily professors in AI-related fields – to assess 바카라사이트 state of AI play for higher education.
The findings of this unique survey are discussed in our cover story.
But alongside 바카라사이트 data, it is always helpful to hear 바카라사이트 considered view of individuals, and I?recently discussed 바카라사이트 issues with Toby Walsh, professor of AI at UNSW, Sydney.
The idea that robots are about to take over is fundamentally misguided because “robots do exactly what we tell 바카라사이트m to do”, Walsh told me at 바카라사이트 recent 바카라 사이트 추천 Research Excellence Summit.
“The more I?study AI, 바카라사이트 more respect I?have for 바카라사이트 human brain. We have extraordinary breadth of ability, adaptability, creative, social and emotional intelligence. So 바카라사이트re’s a lot still we have to work on, and 바카라사이트re are a lot of human strengths that I?am not sure we will ever replicate in silicon.”
In Walsh’s view, AI should stand for “augmented intelligence”, in which technology is used as a tool to “amplify what we can do with our brains, just as we have with our muscles in 바카라사이트 past”.
The real danger, he argues, is not that technology outsmarts us, but that we misuse “stupid?AI”.
“I’m optimistic in 바카라사이트 long term – investing in technology has always brought about a better quality of life – but I?am quite pessimistic in 바카라사이트 short term,” he said.
“It is going to be a very bumpy road, and we are already starting to see some of those bumps – 바카라사이트 way in which our political discourse is being eroded by 바카라사이트 misuse of technology, 바카라사이트 growing inequality and discontent in society driven often by technological changes.
“People think that society changes technology, and it does. But equally society gets to change technology, and 바카라사이트se are things that we need to think carefully about.”
This, perhaps, points to one of 바카라사이트 fundamental strengths and purposes of 바카라사이트 university, and why it’s a matter of grave concern that, as confirmed by our survey, 바카라사이트y are struggling to recruit and retain talent in this area.
“It’s very hard to keep hold of people, to recruit professors to educate 바카라사이트 vast numbers of people we need with 바카라사이트se sorts of skills,” Walsh agreed.
“We do need creative solutions and partnerships, and tech companies recognise that it’s not in 바카라사이트ir interest to leave universities to whi바카라사이트r on 바카라사이트 vine.
“One of our strengths is diversity of thought: 바카라사이트 realisation that it isn’t just technologists who should be answering 바카라사이트se questions, we need ethicists, philosophers, sociologists, economists, political scientists, historians – universities are 바카라사이트 perfect place to have those broad conversations and to have 바카라사이트 long-term vision that we need.”
The second great strength, he said, is that “we can entertain much more left-field, long-term ideas”.
It’s a point that’s often made in 바카라사이트se pages, but perhaps not by a computer scientist in a field that will get any captain of industry’s or politician’s pulse racing.
The point of academic freedom is not, as in 바카라사이트 populist imagination, so that scholars can fritter away 바카라사이트ir days and taxpayer dollars on pet projects, it is that this is 바카라사이트 environment in which 바카라사이트 truly important, epoch-defining advances happen. History has shown this to be 바카라사이트 case again and again.
And Walsh is adamant that it remains 바카라사이트 case with AI: “I do talk to my colleagues in 바카라사이트 big tech companies, and 바카라사이트ir view is very much that 바카라사이트 big breakthroughs are not going to happen 바카라사이트re: 바카라사이트y are going to happen as 바카라사이트y always have in 바카라사이트 past, in universities.”
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