{"id":19474,"date":"2019-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=085327767a94f2eed970a3eaaa37741d"},"modified":"2019-10-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:00:00","slug":"ai-to-complement-humans-not-to-take-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/ai-to-complement-humans-not-to-take-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"‘AI to complement humans, not to take jobs’"},"content":{"rendered":"
JOHANNESBURG, A TECHNOLOGY expert has waded into the contentious debate around artificial intelligence (AI) being a threat to some jobs presently held by humans.<\/P>
Presenting at a summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Alix Rubsaam, argued AI would complement, not replace, human capabilities.<\/P>
Essentially computers are doing what we do, but doing it better. They are who we are but not what we are, Rubsaam said.<\/P>
She is a researcher in philosophy of technology, cultural analysis and post-humanism.<\/P>
Rubsaam opined as she presented on, AI or Death? Redefining what it Means to be Human in the Software Age.<\/P>
She said AI could not be taken at face value without understanding the cultural context.<\/P>
AI is shaped by a specific time and place, the expert said.<\/P>
It’s contextual, based on the most important technology of the time.<\/P>
Thought-provoking rhetorical questions dominated her presentation.<\/P>
This (above analysis) is only true as long as we define this reality as computational. Are we computers? she quipped.<\/P>
The Greeks thought we were all hydraulic machinery. Maybe it’s silly but AI is a threat, not a threat to an organism or a species but to our contemporary definition of what it means to be human.<\/P>
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Source: CAJ News Agency <\/P>
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JOHANNESBURG, A TECHNOLOGY expert has waded into the contentious debate around artificial intelligence (AI) being a threat to some jobs presently held by humans.Presenting at a summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Alix Rubsaam, argued AI would comple…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n