White collar workers being replaced by AI

http://qz.com/875491/japanese-white-collar-workers-are-already-being-replaced-by-artificial-intelligence/

by kjhughes • 10 years ago

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ourcat• 10 years ago

I would put money on the legal profession being revolutionised (read: sped up) by machine-learning and AI (read: CPU cycles).

The ability to refer to any. case. ever. to provide a potentially watertight argument will be pretty hard to beat.

Hydraulix9892• 10 years ago

AI technology as it stands is not even close to actually replacing a human lawyer though.

Maybe it could "augment" the lawyer's human intelligence, but as it stands, we would need real breakthroughs in the field of AI to actually do logical reasoning (and I'm not talking about black-and-white hardcoded Prolog).

If anything, contemporary AI tech could help perform diagnoses in the medical industry. Indeed, there are several deep learning startups tackling this problem. Diagnosing medical conditions is essentially a classification problem so you just need the right training data and a convnet.

sammydavis• 10 years ago

Computer searching has already removed the need for the huge historical cases where a large group of lawyers and pa's would search through old emails and docs to see if they could find something about a big case. Now that's generally done by computer searching. You can call that AI if you have a need to, but the trend is clear - white color work that is easily automated will become more efficient, leading to fewer workers in general.

White collar workers being replaced by AI

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