One advancement is global data "accumulation and application". A demetoligent or radiologist automaton will accumulate a global data base which contains all the images of shin cancer or the x-rays associated with a given condition from all over the world over many decades. an AI will use that data (billions of cases) to make a diagnosis. The diagnosis will be far more accurate based on this data base than any experience that a human can provide by many orders of magnitude.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Ludwik Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> We believed that in the next economic system, Communism, people will be >> receiving goods "according to their needs, not according to their work. >> > > In the distant future, hundreds of years from now, it is certain that > things will work out this way, because there will be no need for any human > labor, and because the technology for things like robots will be in the > public domain and available to everyone at no cost. I mean that patents > will have expired, and the technology will be so cheap with automatic > replication machines that there will be no way to charge anyone for it. > Cold fusion may be the first technology to reduce a major world-scale > expense to zero, but others will surely follow. > > People will eventually have all the food they want for free, or nearly for > free, from small automated farms. See: > > http://www.freightfarms.com/ > > http://www.freightfarms.com/features/ > > These may even be built into houses. You see them in some Japanese > restaurants already. When you order a salad, the waitress cut the lettuce > from a glass automated greenhouse next to you. > > Two hundred years from now, trying to charge the customer for the use of > cold fusion or for a new robot would be like trying to charge a person > nowadays for gathering sticks and making a bonfire, or trying to charge a > person for gathering rocks on his own property and making a stone wall in > Pennsylvania. Fire and simple stone construction techniques are millions of > years old. No one controls them. > > In Pennsylvania, a skilled person can charge a lot of money to gather > rocks and build a stone retaining wall in a barn. This takes a great deal > of skill, special tools, mortar and so on. The rocks may come from the > property owner's own land a few meters away, but you can still charge for > the labor. However, in the distant future, a large robot will download the > skills needed to do this, and it will do the job for free. There may still > be some incidental expenses for mortar, specialized tools, a building > permit and so on. > > - Jed > >
