How do we learn to work with intelligent machines? | Matt Beane

The path to skill around the globe has been the same for thousands of years: train under an expert and take on small, easy tasks before progressing to riskier, harder ones. But right now, we're handling AI in a way that blocks that path -- and sacrificing learning in our quest for productivity, says organizational ethnographer Matt Beane. What can be done? Beane shares a vision that flips the current story into one of distributed, machine-enhanced mentorship that takes full advantage of AI's amazing capabilities while enhancing our skills at the same time.

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[sack]

I wish there was more communication between people like him and another TED talker who described a process he and his team were working on. They had created a complete chem lab within virtual reality. It followed all the rules of chemistry such that people could create a nuclear bomb and set it off in VR without any harm to themselves. Better than that, they could rewind and slow mo every bit of it including the destruction it did at various intervals from the blast! Something like that is exactly what Matt's team needs. A virtual reality of the human body where they can practice on the procedures. When they move wrong, the VR would produce the exact reaction it would make. It would never hurt a human to learn this way either!

[HondaCivic]

Wait, this show is called Ted Talks, but when will Ted talk?

[MrAykut]

If happiness is the meaning of life & hence the objective, then a life with less work for a growing population wont fulfil that. Even if ppl ended up receiving universal basic income, they will get bored of leisure. But because theres a conflict of interest between such ppl, with those who believe they will get better results with AI - this is where governments & law enforcement are supposed to step in.

I'd like to see a worldwide survey take place with 1 of 2 multiple choice answers to choose from. Do you have a dream job? Do you not know the career you want to have? I feel as if the 2nd option will receive the most answers & hence AI could be allowed to win

[rachelgreen]

That's the kind of future I dream of too.

[elvinperia]

Now I realized why we were not allowed to use our calculators during our Math exams in high school.

[sojournern]

A point: the robot can do the job BETTER than the human, thus you're suggesting we insert people into a job that ultimately he/she will only slow down. While this may not be completely true today it will be soon.

[yomolandia]

in my opinion, his examples are somewhat far away from the AI in a conventional sense. Apart from that, I agree with his idea.

[Lorendrawn]

Yeah this is why I'm studying to be a counselor in my lunch breaks at work.

[ChessMasteryOfficial]

*You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you. ~*

[arturostable]

It's MORPHING


xD In all seriousness though.. interesting ideas.

[sctr]

A machine can know no more than it is programmed to know.

[clarebelzart]

well done you - if practicals are taken away in everything, eventually will become defunct - it only takes an emp blast to knock out those robots, and if doctors only know theory, then how would they save lives?! The hubris surrounding technology on ted is astounding at times. Those who lived before it had to memorise procedures... clever or what?

[dannybou-maroun]

I'm sorry, but why is it important to learn something that an AI is already doing better?

[joshuaa.kennedy]

I ran into the same problem but not robots but no one wants to train some one because it cost them currency. So I had to learn how to sell the job and pay my old boss to teach me with my own on the job training just so i have a skill to sell.

[Sora-cezx]

The point is “surgeon’s skill vs patients’ benefits.”
I think patients’ benefits are more important so we gotta figure out how new surgeons learn the skills without risking the patients’ body function.

[HumansOfVR]

Why give a robot an order to obey orders—why aren't the original orders enough? Why command a robot not to do harm—wouldn't it be easier never to command it to do harm in the first place? Does the universe contain a mysterious force pulling entities toward malevolence, so that a positronic brain must be programmed to withstand it? Do intelligent beings inevitably develop an attitude problem? (…) Now that computers really have become smarter and more powerful, the anxiety has waned. Today's ubiquitous, networked computers have an unprecedented ability to do mischief should they ever go to the bad. But the only mayhem comes from unpredictable chaos or from human malice in the form of viruses. We no longer worry about electronic serial killers or subversive silicon cabals because we are beginning to appreciate that malevolence—like vision, motor coordination, and common sense—does not come free with computation but has to be programmed in. (…) Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

[Masterfailure-bi]

And that’s what makes intelligent machines scary. This way better at math than us…

[Wilsbaags]

Tobe honest, surgical robots have exactly zero AI. Every single movement is controlled by the operator. It is more difficult to "transfer control" yes, and perhaps slows learning process somewhat. But AI they have not.

[tobgay]

It's Sacha Baron Cohen everyone. He is Matt Beane by day Borat by night.

[ironmaiden]

We have already sealed our fates. We stepped over the line when we decided to invent AI. When the Nano bots learn how to repair themselves and reinvent new bots. We are ghosts.