#economic singularity

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Recommendation Triptych: Rise of the Machines

Books reviewed: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil (2006) The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (2014) The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chance (2016) Introduction One of the biggest challenges facing our society now…

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The question that young people (and their parents) naturally ask about the economic singularity is, how can I best prepare for the economy that we are moving towards? [...] The best answer is to study computing. Computers are at the heart of the changes sweeping the world in the information revolution, so it has to be valuable to understand how they work and what they can and cannot do. If possible, study machine learning, and in particular, deep learning. It seems a safe bet that these powerful techniques will remain important for years to come. Carrying out maintenance, supervision or development of hardware or software may keep you in a job for longer than most.

Calum Chace, The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the death of capitalism

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OPINION: Economic Singularity will force big changes on the majority of people