[alicebot-aiethics] Computers vs. stock brokers/analysts ...

[Jon Baer]

Richard Wallace wrote:

> > I'm starting to wonder how a nation with such a bizzare schoolsystem can
> > produce a quite large amount of good scientists & bussinesmen? Statistics?
>
> I'm afraid that the excellent education system that once existed in the U.S.
> has been utterly destroyed and politicized by the present generation of its
> caretakers.  Whether the U.S. continues to produce such high quality leaders
> in the future, is a matter of speculation.

And it's only a matter of time before we have a bot for a CEO running a company,
then a Congressman, then the President, then well who knows ;-)

It inevitable that as time goes on people will continue to ask "could a machine
have made a better logical decision than this human".  The same will go on for
students and workers, the decision that they made will always be scrutinized
with some mechanical form.

I think IBM even recently posted that a bot could make smarter, better, and more
profitable decisions than a stock broker/analysts (I should have listened to
that bot months ago).  Its funny because I think (maybe Rich thinks this as
well) that its very tough to find a job because in the end you always end up
thinking a machine/bot would be a "better" ~thinking~ boss (without the million
dollar salary) - Rich applies it to the educational stature but its all the
same.

I think the move to the Singularity is the objective of those decision making
skills.  We just need to move it beyond the super computer power of playing
chess and into using all the public information on the web.

- Jon