Monthly Archives: May 2017

Robots

A few weeks ago I finished Martin Ford’s The Rise of the Robots. It is a brilliant book. Sometimes I found the reading a bit heavy because of the sheer amount of details but in general Ford puts here very thought provoking ideas.

He knows the computing world and he knows economic positions left and right and centre and all.

The only part I found week was when he mentioned genetic algorithms. As far as I have seen, that area of computing research has stagnated and will remain so until a new paradigm arises.

The criticisms I read in certain forums seem to be of the usual blokes who deny climate change and who think The Economist is a socialist magazine.

What Ford wrote is linked to Bill Gates’ thoughts on taxing AI and to the very superficial counters about “training will fix it”.