What about this Artificial Intelligence that will replace the next generation of human beings? What will happen to these institutions of high learning? Will these teachers, professors, etc, become obsolete? I suppose the elite will still have some use for some humans to adjust the screws of these machines.
Raul,
I remember during a drunk way back in the 1990's, when I was mowing acre upon acre of grass (on the Toro machines), I would babble about self-driving lawn mowers which would be programmed by an "Automated Maintenance Technician". He would ride them over an area in "record" mode and "save" the pattern to a name designating the area.
Also, I imagine that among the first innovators of the automated workforce will be Fast Food King McDonald's who would replace most of its work force with "Automated Food Prep Technicians". There will always be a need for the human animal to oversee and maintain, to program, and to go to jail if the store burns down or if a child gets chopped up by the robotic blades.
As someone who dabbles with computer programming on a regular basis, I imagine the potential for disasters and mishaps is endless.
To err is human, but in order to really fuuck shiit up, you need a human programming a machine.
One day they will program machines to program machines. Machines don't type a comma when they mean a semicolon; but I see no way to secure against errors of different kinds.
No labor saving device has ever really saved any labor. Think of nails and hammers.
They need factories to produce the nails, right?
Robots are building cars, but we like to think that humans engineer them.
It is more likely that these automobiles are designed by "corporate software."
But, I digress. I like to talk negatively with you before I muster up enthusiasm for spending as much time as possible cultivating a deeper understanding of a few topics which cultivate absolutely zero economic return.
Thankfully, for the time being, I am able to get some groceries and help the mother pay the bills required for us to live indoors, entirely by the grace of the federal government's social security funds.
You know, one always hears about the need for the work force to be replenished, which is why governments secretly encourage immigration when their "native" population is not breeding fast enough to fill all the redundant positions in the service and sector.
And yet, what shall the future management do with the restless human animals on their plantation when they have less need for them? Will they invent busy work? Will everyone become a police officer?
In one of HG Well's science fiction stories about the future, there were only two options: unemployed or police officer.
I guess the Criminal Underworld and Shadow governments shall inherit the earth, huh.
Tough break for the meek, not to mention the kahKah-RRoaches.
As for teachers and professors being replaced by Artificial Intelligence, I don't see that happening, although there may be repeated failed attempts to do so. Maybe there will be a movement toward home-schooling and self-learning; but, remember, most "schooling" is focused less on education and more on obedience training, the instillation of consumerist values, and other "socialization".
Holden, you make a good point about your enjoyment of calculating least common multiples and greatest common factors. I like to appreciate how prime factorization is related to both.
When finding either least common multiple or greatest common factor, do you not always list the prime factorization of each number?
I really think you would like the gcd(), lcm(), and factors() programs. You would really get a kick out of creating such programs and then using them.
I could see these among the first motivations for you to code.
See our post here:
Math: A Reason to Live?I have a command line lcm written in C++ (adapted from Python code) which takes several arguments. Code often reveals intricate relationships, such as how the lcm code depends on gcd, including it as a subprogram within itself.
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// C++ program to find LCM of n elements
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
typedef long long int ll;
// Utility function to find GCD of 'a' and 'b'
int gcd(int a, int b)
{
if (b==0)
return a;
return gcd(b, a%b);
}
// Returns LCM of array elements
ll findlcm(int arr[], int n)
{
// Initialize result
ll ans = arr[0];
// ans contains LCM of arr[0],..arr[j]
// after j'th iteration,
for (int j=1; i<n; i++)
ans = ( ((arr[j]*ans)) /
(gcd(arr[j], ans)) );
return ans;
}
// Driver Code
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
// Check the number of parameters
if (argc < 2) {
// Tell the user how to run the program
std::cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " NAME" << std::endl;
return 1;
}
//int arr[] = {2, 7, 3, 9, 4};
int arr[argc-1];
for (int j = 0; i < argc-1; i++)
{
arr[j] = atoi(argv[i+1]);
}
int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]);
printf("%lld\n", findlcm(arr, n));
return 0;
}
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The Python definitions are kind of cryptic, whereas the above C++ code is more explicit.
def gcdm(a, *r):
for b in r:
while b:
a, b = b, (a % b)
return abs(a)
def lcmm(a, *r):
for b in r:
a *= b // gcdm(a,b)
return abs(a)
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Alas, as you know, I most prefer computing with paper and pencil, so I like to factor each number into primes (with appropriate exponentiation). Then I see which are common. As you may have noticed, similar procedures apply for both LCM and GCD (HCF), but the criteria for what to do with the common factors is different in each case.
I found the following that you might find applicable:
Using Prime Factorization to Find GCF & LCM which utilizes a Venn Diagram for keeping things organized. Please do not be insulted if you think this looks "childish". I am not kidding around. I really find the method shown in the link to be great using the factor tree as well as the Venn diagram.
Yes, you are absolutely right. I would much rather lose myself in such computations than be flirted with by an attractive woman promoting credit cards. This may sound morbid, and there are those who would accuse me of being a bitter, rotten toothed needle-diick, but at least I am quite cognizant of the power certain women's charms have over me. Evidently, the company which hires her out is equally cognizant of this phenomenon.
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