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Humans Need Not Apply

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[ source : http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-apply ]




Creative Labor


Creativity may feel like magic, but it isn't. The brain is a complicated machine -- perhaps the most complicated machine in the whole universe -- but that hasn't stopped us from trying to simulate it.


There is this notion that just as mechanical muscles allowed us to move into thinking jobs that mechanical minds will allow us all to move into creative work. But even if we assume the human mind is magically creative -- it's not, but just for the sake of argument -- artistic creativity isn't what the majority of jobs depend on. The number of writers and poets and directors and actors and artist who actually make a living doing their work is a tiny, tiny portion of the labor force. And given that these are professions that are dependent on popularity they will always be a small part of the population.


There is no such thing as a poem and painting based economy.


Oh, by the way, this music in the background that your listening to? It was written by a bot. Her name is Emily Howel and she can write an infinite amount of new music all day for free. And people can't tell the difference between her and human composers when put to a blind test.


Talking about artificial creativity gets weird fast -- what does that even mean? But it's nonetheless a developing field.


People used to think that playing chess was a uniquely creative human skill that machines could never do right up until they beat the best of us. And so it goes for all human talent.




어쩌면 10년, 20년이라는 멀지 않은 미래에 지금 우리가 프로그래밍이라고 부르는 '행위'를 기계가 대신 해주고 있을지 모른다. 그 시대를 사는 청년들은 과거에 살았던 우리를 보면서 마치 책을 인쇄하지 못해서 일일이 손으로 필사해서 복사하던 시대를 되돌아보는 지금 우리의 심정이 될 것이다.

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