podfish
03-22-2017, 11:50 AM
(clickbaity headline - sue me)
Project Literacy, which has been raising awareness for its cause at SXSW 2017, recently released a report, “ 2027: Human vs. Machine Literacy (https://www.projectliteracy.com/sites/default/files/Downloads/2027%20Human%20vs%20Machine%20Literacy%20UK.pdf),” that projects machines powered by AI and voice recognition will surpass the literacy levels of one in seven American adults in the next 10 years. “While these systems currently have a much shallower understanding of language than people do, they can already perform tasks similar to [a] simple text search task...exceeding the abilities of millions of people who are nonliterate,”
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there are more software engineers in the U.S. than school teachers, “We are focusing so much on teaching algorithms and AI to be better at language that we are forgetting that 50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level,”...
Read it here... (https://www.designnews.com/automation-motion-control/machines-will-be-more-literate-many-humans-10-years/75002894656490?cid=nl.x.dn14.edt.aud.dn.20170322)
Project Literacy, which has been raising awareness for its cause at SXSW 2017, recently released a report, “ 2027: Human vs. Machine Literacy (https://www.projectliteracy.com/sites/default/files/Downloads/2027%20Human%20vs%20Machine%20Literacy%20UK.pdf),” that projects machines powered by AI and voice recognition will surpass the literacy levels of one in seven American adults in the next 10 years. “While these systems currently have a much shallower understanding of language than people do, they can already perform tasks similar to [a] simple text search task...exceeding the abilities of millions of people who are nonliterate,”
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there are more software engineers in the U.S. than school teachers, “We are focusing so much on teaching algorithms and AI to be better at language that we are forgetting that 50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level,”...
Read it here... (https://www.designnews.com/automation-motion-control/machines-will-be-more-literate-many-humans-10-years/75002894656490?cid=nl.x.dn14.edt.aud.dn.20170322)