Over at FT.com , Tim O’Reillyhas a must - read essayabout the symbiosis between human race and computers . We ’re already propagating our knowledge and our acculturation at a much faster pace than in the past tense , he argues , and the next step is computers that can get a line from “ the activity of human teachers ” but then notice thing the humans would n’t . He cites the instance of Google ’s autonomous vehicle , which beats other self - driving cars because it can pass on all the experience of “ millions of route miles put in by human gadget driver building the Google Street View database . ”
O’Reilly adds :
This is the futurity : monolithic amounts of data created by the great unwashed , stored in cloud applications that use saucy algorithmic rule to pull substance from it , feeding back results to those people on mobile devices , step by step giving style to applications that emulate what they have learned from the feedback loops between those people and their devices .
In the best case , we see a originative mutualism of man and machine . However , it ’s well-to-do to get the balance awry : we have only to face at the fiscal grocery excess of the preceding decade to see the risk of algorithms gone fantastic in the hands of rogue companies and mortal seeking only their own vantage .
The global brain is still in its infancy . We can promote it to help us make a better cosmos , or we can raise it to be selfish , unfair and short - terminus in its outlook .
The whole thing is well worth reading . [ FT.com ]
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