Robot technology is so awesome! Who can survive in the future society

How good is artificial intelligence today? ——Alimama’s artificial intelligence copywriting can generate 20,000 slogans in one second, and Ant Financial’s AI has achieved 4 people serving tens of millions of users in 27 fund companies. Ophthalmologists can only recognize about 40% after more than ten years of training. Keratitis, and Zhejiang University’s artificial intelligence can identify 84% and never get tired. As for translation, iFLYTEK’s artificial intelligence uses countless languages ​​to communicate at the same time is just a piece of cake.

As early as 2016, based on the artificial intelligence technology at the time, Oxford University professors Carl Benedicte Frey and Michael A. Osborne predicted that in the next 20 years, 47% of the United States, 69% of India, and China 77% of jobs are likely to be replaced by automation brought about by machine learning.

Don’t panic, machines will not completely replace manpower

"Artificial intelligence will certainly wipe out some industries and transform some industries." Xi Youmin, executive president of the University of Liverpool, Xi’an Jiaotong University, predicts with certainty, "Many jobs may be gone, and many majors will be gone. Simple accounting will soon be replaced. , Many people in the bank will lose their jobs."

But don't panic, some people will still be irreplaceable in the future. While artificial intelligence and robots replace and strengthen some industries, they will also nurture many new industries. For example, in the current unmanned aircraft, an aircraft replaces a pilot, but there are 60 big data operators behind it.

Some experts also pointed out that humans and intelligent robots are not a substitute relationship, but will form a new division of labor. This new division of labor is reflected in people's use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to optimize work performance; machines are good at solving problems, but they don't ask questions, and they are not good at innovation. Therefore, the most valuable social professions in the machine learning era are entrepreneurs, innovators, scientists, creators and other talents who can analyze problems to be solved, opportunities to be explored, and fields to be explored.

With the in-depth development of artificial intelligence technology and the widespread application of robots, people will be liberated from many traditional production activities and have more leisure time and stronger support means to make life more interesting and colorful. Innovation and creativity will become necessities in life and work, and people will have more opportunities to engage in creative work.

But Xi Youmin reminded that all new jobs will only become more and more complicated, not simpler, "the future will not create jobs that you can get if you get a few points right."

The "Artificial Intelligence Era" guided by Fan Deng, the founder of Fan Deng Reading, has set off a listening boom on the Internet. But few people know that Fan Deng majored in metal materials and heat treatment at university. "In college, I actually didn't learn anything." He jokingly said, "The most important thing that my alma mater taught me is to make me feel like I can learn." What impressed him the most was that he had participated in the school on behalf of the school. In a debate, in order to win the championship, he and his classmates looked through the library materials, read countless books, and learned a lot.

This ability of self-learning has become Fan Deng's core competitiveness today, and it is also the foundation that he believes will not be replaced by robots.

People who are least like machines are more adaptable to the era of artificial intelligence

The kindergarten children will memorize two lines of poems and speak two sentences of English, and the parents are very happy. After going to school, multiplication tables and problem-solving methods will always focus on content, but these are not important in the artificial intelligence era. "Because now there are search engines and mobile phones, people can easily find the knowledge they want, and the function of traditional education to eliminate ignorance has disappeared." Xi Youmin believes that it is easy to have knowledge in the future, and it is important to judge the ability to integrate this knowledge.

From the perspective of practitioners, Lu Cheng, general manager of Baidu's smart home hardware, has a more in-depth measurement of talents in the artificial intelligence era. Lu Cheng does not deny that future talents also need to master a lot of professional knowledge. But he puts imagination first in the future talents. "The artificial intelligence industry is basically predicting what the future will look like. But my theory is that no one can predict anything, so you need to be very dare to think. Not from the perspective of landing applications, but from the system level and more At a high level, there is a vision and vision for the future society."

He believes that the most important quality for practitioners in the era of artificial intelligence is to have a high moral code. "Because artificial intelligence has a huge challenge, is whether human beings can control its boundaries and whether they can't help open it. Pandora's box". In actual research, many application scenarios of artificial intelligence are actually full of temptations. Practitioners need to consider whether a certain technology will have a fatal impact on human society in the future and cannot be controlled by artificial intelligence.

In the final analysis, machines serve people, and how tall people stand, robots will help. It's like a smartphone designed with many functions, but most people only use 30% of its functions. "If we want to make our lives more colorful with the help of robots, we must constantly improve ourselves." Xi Youmin believes that general education, literacy education, and art education will become more and more important in the future, and schools need to cultivate student autonomy. Ability to learn, ask questions, interpersonal skills, creative thinking skills, ability to plan for the future, etc.

"Who can survive in the future society? The most important thing is that you have to become the person least like a machine." Fan Deng concluded in one sentence.

However, from the most realistic perspective, computer science will become the "main subject" of all schools. Now Zhejiang University requires all undergraduates to learn programming, even the Department of Archaeology. This is the key for students to enter the era of artificial intelligence.

How to change education? Still a question under exploration

In April of this year, the Ministry of Education issued the "Innovation Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Institutions", which made major deployments for the innovative development of a new generation of artificial intelligence from the higher education level.

Artificial intelligence affects education. It is not simply to open artificial intelligence courses in schools, nor to open artificial intelligence majors in schools. What education circles need to study is how the whole education adapts to the social problems after artificial intelligence has changed the world.

"For many years, the school has only focused on professional planning, curriculum design, syllabus, teaching, etc., and future learning is likely to be that people have laid a certain learning foundation and skills when they were young, and then lived and worked with their interests and opportunities. It is necessary to carry out specific learning as needed, so that lifelong learning becomes a habit and necessity.” Xi Youmin believes that in this case, teaching is no longer simply teaching knowledge, but guiding students to develop problem awareness. Learn to search for knowledge, integrate knowledge, solve problems, and improve communication, cooperation, expression and execution skills in this research process.

This also means that the school's teaching mode and even the campus form may change. In the future, students may not have to use a full four years for undergraduate study, two or three years for postgraduate study for masters, or three to five years for doctoral study. Instead, they will use resources and technologies such as the Internet and schools to continue themselves as needed. Learn.

The university of the future will be a learning center, resource center, R&D community, innovation ecology, and industry-university-research community community. Teachers and classmates interact when you want to learn, you can use resources and experimental environment to try creativity when you have ideas, you can use the R&D center to find answers when you have doubts and questions, and you can practice through innovation ecology when you have technology or business models. Innovative products or services realize value creation and sharing through the industry-university-research institute community, thereby promoting social progress and development.

At present, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University of Technology and other well-known universities have in-depth cooperation with companies such as Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. Sugon, the leader in supercomputers, is also cooperating with universities to introduce the company's experience and projects into the university's practical courses, and let the doctors of the research institute share their experiences with students. Song Huaiming, chief scientist of Sugon Big Data, believes that the core idea of ​​school-enterprise cooperation is to integrate the enterprise's advantages in artificial intelligence and advanced computing with the school's educational philosophy to better cultivate practical talents.