Posted on 05/07/2011 11:34:06 AM PDT by decimon
Yesterday afternoon, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak spoke to Michigan State University graduates as he received an honorary doctorate of engineering from MSU for his many accomplishments in the personal computing industry. However, toward the end of his mostly positive commencement speech, he warned graduates that the computers he’s helped create will soon make us irrelevant as a species.
“Every time we invent a computer to do something else, it’s doing our work for us, making ourselves less relevant,” said Wozniak, in his usual upbeat tone. “The cyborgs are winning! The androids are winning!”
Wozniak continued: “Artificial intelligence will in the future become more and more like a real person, like a friend you would want to go and meet. Somebody that can talk to your face; somebody that can understand things [and] knows the kind of jokes you like; [somebody] that knows what sort of things to say depending on how slowly you’re talking then; a real person.”
“One of the things is, you’ve got to have human senses,” continued Wozniak. “How does a computer ever create art, for example, if it can’t sense things that a human understands, like the wind on a beach. Well, our computers have gotten hearing and seeing, they’ve got feeling, touch sensitive; they can sense motion, just like our inner ear. Pretty soon we’re going to have holograms, which are much better than what you call 3D television. We’ve created a new species; no question. We’re creators and, like I said, we’re making ourselves less relevant.”
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/johnny
When computers first “came out” years ago, I thought almost all jobs would be obsolete at some point. But I guess we’re now just capable of doing more analysis and higher levels of tasks now that computers are combined with human abilities.
Absolutely. As usual, Apple’s philosophy is remote, unhuman, and untrue.
Well, computers require electricity and manufacturing, both of which will be the stuff of distant legend once the world economy collapses and society as we know it disappears.
I expect that to happen within the next few years now.
The new stone age.
Woz is an interesting guy, but blind when it comes to real understanding. Man doesn’t create; he merely rearranges that which God has created.
The only jobs that will be left will be the jobs the computers refuse to do.
I’d take TOTUS over the current POTUS any day
“The new stone age.”
That’ll be all fine and dandy — until we hit peak stone.
haha tell that to the Applenecks. They are the MacCult that follow and obey everything Steve Jobs.
Every technological advance has made some human function or other irrelevant. Because why? That was the idea to begin with. If you invent a machine to sort M&M’s into sizes and colors, then the person that did that by hand is no longer needed. Are we better off or worse off for having done that? Most people would say that’s a good thing.
Michigan State University? Nuts, I would have like to see him.
Did Wozniak just read Player Piano?
It still hasn't happened.
and they will worship the ‘image’ of the beast.
Species’ survival has nothing to do with relevance.
A species survives because it has a biological urge to do so, and will use any means necessary to make sure it happens.
What biological urge do computers have?
Just unplug the thing.
But I bet Gregory Peck was much hotter as he was saying it!
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