{"id":5311,"date":"2014-11-21T12:25:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T19:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2014-11-21T12:25:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T19:25:29","slug":"a-i-and-the-new-deskilling-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=5311","title":{"rendered":"A.I. and the new deskilling wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/withered.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5313\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/withered.jpg?resize=500%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"withered\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/withered.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/withered.jpg?resize=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have an <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/automation-makes-us-dumb-1416589342\">essay<\/a> in tomorrow&#8217;s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0in which I\u00a0examine\u00a0how an overdependence on software is\u00a0sapping the talents of professionals and argue for a more humanistic\u00a0approach to programming and automation. The piece begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Artificial intelligence has arrived. Today\u2019s computers are discerning and sharp. They can sense the environment, untangle knotty problems, make subtle judgments and learn from experience. They don\u2019t think the way we think\u2014they\u2019re still as mindless as toothpicks\u2014but they can replicate many of our most prized intellectual talents. Dazzled by our brilliant new machines, we\u2019ve been rushing to hand them all sorts of sophisticated jobs that we used to do ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>But our growing reliance on computer automation may be exacting a high price. Worrisome evidence suggests that our own intelligence is withering as we become more dependent on the artificial variety. Rather than lifting us up, smart software seems to be dumbing us down. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/automation-makes-us-dumb-1416589342\">Read on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aneequs\/8078709\/in\/photolist-dJPD5A-bzrVqg-8sjw14-3Ss4e-otyiCY-naAveg-pBnyuA-jbM9TJ-zqB1A-b8rRa4-dDU6ZK-7oXoBS-awqHyJ-pHyysU-8mB4VM-7r6iH2-Hpw6-2MJUT-bEanvH-br5ADQ-7vfpAc-doAihA-5GGoYY-gicsZJ-3vnLvv-4aWn1X-bt6TNH-iiPdUt-axoRVu-9VBxPT-8mxncH-p2zmXg-ar9HJ7-hwmGWf-ej85Ah-o2bjeb-8mDF3u-2TNRPX-7S3Bof-6WRGqf-mFFhRs-pYwuTn-mE9Ju9-9MtyBX-giyDJ7-5VCkhU-dEzWkW-bnaqHR-cZ2vSY-9F5JAA\">aneequs<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an essay in tomorrow&#8217;s Wall Street Journal\u00a0in which I\u00a0examine\u00a0how an overdependence on software is\u00a0sapping the talents of professionals and argue for a more humanistic\u00a0approach to programming and automation. The piece begins: Artificial intelligence has arrived. Today\u2019s computers are discerning and sharp. They can sense the environment, untangle knotty problems, make subtle judgments and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}