Humans Need Not Apply video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU 15 minutes if you have the time *********************** This is a pretty good watch on the future of labor due to the advancement of computers and technology. Some of the topics are very interesting to me with all the talk of minimum wage and unemployment debates that are dominating some of our economic and labor issues. With all the talk of dollar value and what people are worth I find it disturbing that some are so quick to look at flipping burgers as below them and the first thing they debate is how soon automation should absorb the fast food field. I agree with the video that all fields, (labor, professional, technical, creative ect ect.) should be worried about what the future of artificial intelligence and robotics is capable of and the misconception we have about what skill is (By definition of human intelligence and the capability to gain skill through education and degrees; which in the end artificial intelligence will dominate anything we are capable of in a much shorter time period ie. 4 days to what takes human 4 years of schooling). Like the "Luddite Horses", will we suffer the same fate?! Here is another link I saw 5 minutes later applicable to the video that I found interesting. ******************************** Artificial music: The computers that create melodies http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140808-music-like-never-heard-before What Russell, a musicologist, didnt know was that the score titled Hello World had actually been composed much more recently by a computer called Iamus. Other listeners in blind tests have been similarly fooled. (Why not listen to it yourself as you read this article?) You might think that any serious composers would turn up their noses at music made by a computer algorithm. But a few are already taking Iamuss ideas very seriously. In the future I think there will be two kinds of composer, says Díaz-Jerez. There will be those who admit to using the [Iamus] repository and those who dont. if you cant tell the difference between the responses of a computer and those of a human, theres no logical reason to deny it intelligence. ****************************** There is your creative application..... Lets not get started about how well they paint LOL
