Ken Goldberg Published in The Wall Street Journal on The Robot-Human Alliance
Ken Goldberg, BCNM faculty member, wrote about Multiplicity amidst fear that machines would threaten humanity.
Multiplicity, or diverse groups of people and machines working together to solve problems, is a combination of machine learning and cloud computing. Goldberg attests to the benefits of Multiplicity — linking the pros of machine diversity in the same vein as human diversity.
In his opinion piece, he wrote:
Collective intelligence with AI enables many of the most sophisticated and effective systems in use today. If people stopped providing input, these systems would quickly become outdated and would deteriorate. Despite years of experience in human factors and human-machine interfaces, more research is needed on the best ways to combine diverse groups of people with diverse groups of machines. The important question is not when machines will surpass human intelligence, but how humans can work together with them in new ways.
Multiplicity is collaborative instead of combative. Rather than discourage the human workers of the world, this new frontier has the potential to empower them.
Read the entirety of the WSJ article here.