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nanarchy on 04 September 2017
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Rab said:
nanarchy said:

tell that to the generation when the car arrived, or the generation when electricy arrived, or the generation when industrialization took off or when globalisation kicked in or my generation where computers started. Every generation thinks their situation is harder or special, the reality is if anything this change is actually far slower than some of the major upheavals in just the last century or so alone, AI has been a slow advancing beast for the last 20 or 30 years. I did my honours in AI way back in the early 90's and while it has come a long way since then it has been a very slow crawl compared to other advancements and still has a long way to go.

"Pace"

All that change you mentioned only happened over the last 100 years, before 1800's pace of tech was much slower, and the further back you go even slower still, now moving forward, it’s getting faster, the pace of change in a last 100 years we are seeing that in 10 years, we can’t stop it but it will put more pressure on people than ever before, you won’t have long to wait to see it :p   
                              

No the pace of some things has gotten faster, other things have not. If anything change is slowing after have an extremely rapid change of pace for all of last century. AI is one of those slow burning changes and it is something that is still realistically a long way off, it will creep into some areas, usually in the form of an expert system or control system but it is not a fast pace nor is it likely to accelerate at any considerable rate in the foreseeable future, still too many issues to solve.