Posts by Michel 5 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Dec 2016
I use it all the time. I've found their search results are very useful and when searching for code advice the code snippets and explanations often appear at the top of the search results, so i don't even have to click through to load the next page.
Not to mention the Bing/Microsoft Rewards you get for searching, I've been getting free Xbox live gold(and four games/month) for over three years.
I use it too, and agree it can often come up with the best solution quicker than Google; often it will have the solution in a code block on the page so you don't even have to click any search results.
And thanks to the rewards, I haven't paid for Xbox Live Gold in over 2 years and been collecting 4+ games/month free.
Whenever the questions of AI replacing jobs come around, people tend to focus on low skilled jobs, almost as if it makes it easier to digest. "It's just low skilled cashiers, they'll just have to upgrade...go to school and get some skills."
People who believe they're skilled, and intelligent don't think they're at risk, but AI isn't about replacing low skilled labour. Billionaire tech investors aren't thinking "How can we make a menial robot today?" They are trying to make machines that can learn exponentially; become smarter, faster and better at any task it's trained to do, and eventually train to learn new tasks it was not even asked to learn.
I think the people who should also worry about Artificial Intelligence having an impact are those in the "Intelligence" business. 20 years from now, highly advanced AI could also help replace people whom today believe they can't be replaced because they're "smart" and can "think". But in reality, how many law clerks, tax accountants, CRA's, data processsors, software programmers, interpreters, others could be replaced too? Heck, even judges or lawyers could probably be replaced. And we've already seen how well bots can put together fake blogs and news stories, it wouldn't be a stretch for an automated reporting system to replace news reporters and bloggers.
I'm not trying to say "be afraid", I'm just merely trying to remind people to not simply believe this is an issue affecting "low skilled" jobs. Just like when outsourcing started to become a big thing, it was "well, those call center people can just upgrade and find better work..." before it became an issue for high paid IT departments and software developers.
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