Eric Schmidt — robots are your friends

Eric Schmidt of Google wants you to know that robots are your friends. And this is a very important wish, given that former Google CEO took an active part in the development of some of the most complex artificial intelligence systems in the world, from driverless cars to Google predictive search engine. Not so long ago the company even opened its own robotics lab.

And though Schmidt admits that to sit in self — driving car-not the most pleasant experience, he also believes that all these fears that machines are stealing jobs and are preparing to take over the world, overly exaggerated.

"These fears are quite normal — he said at the scene of the event, the Financial Times Innovate America on Tuesday. They're also somewhat wrong."

According to Schmidt, people are always scared of the possibility that machines will take over the world, for centuries.

"Remember the story of the loom. He changed everything, but I think we're all pretty used to the mechanized methods of manufacturing clothes. In the past, the economy flourished through the adoption of these new technologies. There is a lot of evidence that when there are computers, and growing wages. There is a lot of evidence that people who have paid more than those without".

The real threat, according to Schmidt, is that the education system around the world do not teach the students skills of working with smart machines. "We need to worry about how to improve the education system and incentive systems globally, in order to prepare people for this new world so that they could maximize their income".

Besides that Schmidt also noted that machines are much more primitive than people could imagine. In proof of this he explained by an experiment conducted by Google a few years ago, when scientists developed a neural network and fed her 11 000 hours of YouTube videos to see what she can learn without any preparations. "It discovered the concept of "cat" — a tone of disillusioned father Schmidt said. — I don't know what to say about it, except that is everything." Roughly speaking, Schmidt does not diminish the role of the human operator in this world of technology.

Of course, Schmidt is disingenuous vbrasyvaya these messages to the world. Artificial intelligence is the basis of almost all current and future technologies Google. If a company wants to save face, she needs to convince the public that its invention "not be evil".

Source: hi-news.ru