{"id":35661,"date":"2017-03-28T08:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/why-the-rise-of-ai-makes-human-intelligence-more-valuable-than-ever"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:51:55","slug":"why-the-rise-of-ai-makes-human-intelligence-more-valuable-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/why-the-rise-of-ai-makes-human-intelligence-more-valuable-than-ever","title":{"rendered":"Why the Rise of AI Makes Human Intelligence More Valuable Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-the-rise-of-ai-makes-human-intelligence-more-valuable-than-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the popular TV show <em>Sherlock<\/em>, visual depictions of our hero\u2019s deductive reasoning often look like machine algorithms. And probably not by accident, given that this version of Conan Doyle\u2019s detective processes tremendous amounts of observed data\u2014the sort of minutiae that the average person tends to pass over or forget\u2014more like a computer than a human.<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock\u2019s intelligence is both strength and limitation. His way of thinking is often bounded by an inability to intuitively understand social and emotional contexts. The show\u2019s central premise is that Sherlock Holmes needs his friend John Watson to help him synthesize empirical data into human truth.<\/p>\n<p>In<em> Sherlock<\/em> we see the analog for modern AI: highly performant learning machines that can achieve metacognitive results with the assistance of fully cognitive human partners. Machine intelligence does not by its nature make human intelligence obsolete. Quite the opposite, really\u2014machines need human guidance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/27\/why-the-rise-of-ai-makes-human-intelligence-more-valuable-than-ever\/?utm_content=buffer34081&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook-su&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/27\/why-the-rise-of-ai-mak...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the popular TV show Sherlock, visual depictions of our hero\u2019s deductive reasoning often look like machine algorithms. And probably not by accident, given that this version of Conan Doyle\u2019s detective processes tremendous amounts of observed data\u2014the sort of minutiae that the average person tends to pass over or forget\u2014more like a computer than a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48355,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35661\/revisions\/48355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}