Decoupling Income From Work

The idea is to put machines to work for us, but empower ourselves to seek out the forms of remaining work we as humans find most valuable.

This paycheck would be granted to all citizens unconditionally, and its name is universal basic income.

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Neural Networks

They’re a giant network of interconnected cells. Some of these connections are short, and some are long. Some cells are only connected to one other, and some are connected to many. Electrical signals then pass through these connections, at various rates, and subsequent neural fir...

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Nonroutine Automation

We need to recognize what it means for exponential technological change to be entering the labor market space for nonroutine jobs for the first time ever. Machines that can learn mean nothing humans do as a job is uniquely safe anymore. From hamburgers to healthcare, machines can be created to su...

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Routine Work

All work can be divided into four types: routine and nonroutine, cognitive and manual.
Routine work is the same stuff day in and day out, while nonroutine work varies. Within these two varieties, is the work that requires mostly our brains (cognitive) and the w...

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Deep Learning

The power of deep learning is that it’s a way of using massive amounts of data to get machines to operate more like we do without giving them explicit instructions.

Instead of describing “Chairness” to a computer, for example, we instead just plug it into the Internet ...

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Big Data

Big data isn’t just some buzzword. It’s information, and when it comes to information, we’re creating more and more of it every day. In fact, we’re creating so much that a 2013 report by SINTEF estimated that 90% of all information in the world had been created in the prior two y...

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