Machines could start thinking like humans as early as 2025
Ian Pearson, a futurist with an 85% accuracy record, what new technology we can expect to see by 2050 and how it will change the way we live.
Pearson said he thinks it's very feasible that computers could gain consciousness by 2025, perhaps even earlier in 2020.
"Google's DeepMind isn't there yet, but really I'm sure they'll probably discover those things along the way, and by 2020, it's possible their computer could be superhuman and could be conscious," he said. "That could be the beginning of the end, really."
A recent study predicts that over 50% of occupations will no longer exist in 2025. A new generation of workers will emerge. They will live and work in the new autonomous world. Managers today are redrawing organizational charts with titles such as Data Scientist, Customer Success Managers, IoT Manager, Developer Evangelist, and Chief Digital Officer. These new classes of workers will be responsible for the “full stack” as we saw earlier, threading and stitching various parts of business and technology layers. Advances in autonomous technology will abstract away all the complexities and inner workings and help us do way more with way less. To use a different example, you don’t need to understand how a combustion engine works in order to drive a car. Tomorrow, you won’t even need to know how to drive.
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