UNESCO reports only 30% of academic researchers are women, and 11% are in senior positions. Women account for less than 25% of AI specialists, 14% of the cloud computing workforce, and 20% of engineers. The AI research staff at Facebook is only 15% women, while at Google this figure is just 10%.
My fourth-grade teacher in the 60s talked about how we all need to develop our creativity for the "leisure time" we would have due to automation in the future. I swear she was Clara Clayton, wife of Doc Brown, in Back to the Future.
Yes this.
Also I don't want the dishwasher to be more engaging, I want it to have an algorithm to tell when the dishes are clean and keep at it longer if needed instead of keeping to a timer.
Damn right.
Futurist capitalism (fascism) replaces art to make everyone work in jobs regarded "masculine" like the military and mining that no one wants or truly needs.
But what we could do with is a system where AI alleviates ills, allowing humans to meditate, play and create, stress-free.
It would have been smart to develop the artificial intelligence with a preference for washing clothes and vacuuming.
Since the AI was developed by men, the focus is not on care work.
That much is clear.
