Andrew McAfee Quotes
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Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.
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Good decisions are critical to well-functioning societies.
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The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.
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The world is one big data problem.
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Don’t anthropomorphize computers—they hate it.
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Another huge advantage that humans have is good old common sense.
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Electrification was one of the most disruptive technologies ever; in the first decades of the twentieth century, it caused something close to a mass extinction in US manufacturing industries.
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Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a strong shift toward the latter as timescales get longer.
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I’ve found that the book’s fundamental concept—that capitalism and tech progress are now allowing us to tread more lightly on the earth instead of stripping it bare—is hard for many people to accept.
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Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis.