Book Titles

Average is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

By Tyler Cowen

Year Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-95373-9
Categories: Future, Intelligence, Technology

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…don’t expect all the frustrations to go away all at once or to go away anytime soon… the advances of genius machines come in an uneven and staggered fashion.

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In the broader context of professional performance, sooner or later most professionals will have to submit to ratings, one way or another, or bear the consequences…

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It’s going to be a very different world when consumers feel so much on top, and in some ways it will be more dangerous because consumers do not always know what they are doing.

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The most skilled man-machine teams will ear a lot, but there will be an issue of societal trust, precisely because their mastery of external environment may outstrip our ability to judge them.

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Freestyle decisions at the highest levels are… – by their nature – uniquely creative acts.

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When it comes to technology, progress is usually good, but gradual progress is better.

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The truth is there are no real vampire, no dragons, and no HALS. Let’s no worry about them appearing under the bed or in our hard drives.

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Most AI applications still require human support, and those applications… will not come close to displacing all human jobs.

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…intelligent machines will replace some laborers and augment the value of others in a slow and halting manner.

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…Turing notes that a machine will be most effective, cognitively speaking, when it does something other than imitate or try to imitate a man.

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