Post-Mobile Era. Business/ Technology (4 Registered Users)
Beginners:
- early stage- wczesny etap
We are in the early stage of this project.
Intermediate:
- get used to …- przyzwyczajać się do …
The world is just getting used to smartphone revolution.
Advanced:
- make a very meaningful progress- dokonywać bardzo znaczącego postępu
The world is making a very meaningful progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Full version:
- rely on… – polegać na …
- sift through – przesiewać
- make a meaningful progress – dokonywać znaczący postęp
- terrifying – przerażający
The world is only just getting used to the smartphone revolution, but … Google’s Sundar Pichai is already thinking “post-mobile”. It’s no longer enough to program machines with all the answers or to rely on traditional statistical analysis to allow them to work out what’s what – instead, the firm now relies on techniques that allow computers to teach themselves by sifting through massive amounts of data, learning from patterns, regularities and interconnections. The potential is massive, Pichai believes. “We’ve been mak(-e)ing a very meaningful progress in machine learning and AI. ”To some, Google’s strategy will seem terrifying: won’t artificial intelligence end up automating all jobs, and, in extremis, lead to a Terminator-style where machines take control?
- harness – opanować
- disruptive – niepokojący / burzący ład
- recount – przypominać / wspominać
- early stage – początkowy etap rozwoju
The Google boss believes that the benefits of harnessing AI will be much greater than the costs and that the changes will take decades, allowing societies to adapt. New professions will continue to be created, replacing jobs that are automated. He thinks, however, that over time society will come up with a new social contract to deal with the changes.
“Technology is always disruptive. But it’s a force for making people’s lives better. It’s also an incredibly democratising force over time.” AI will be transformative he believes, and not just in his company’s own area. Take medicine. He recounts that “just in the last months, we’ve seen some young people in Google diagnosed with cancer. It’s shocking to see. I look at that and I think: can machine learning and artificial intelligence make progress on these things? In my mind, the answer is yes. We are in such early stages. It’s imperative that we bring this to the world.”
- make bottom-up initiatives – wspierać / dbać o inicjatywy oddolne
The key is to nurture bottom-up initiatives. Google allows its staff to dedicate 20 per cent of their time to interesting projects: that’s how it invented Cardboard, a cheap way of enjoying virtual reality. One of its core products, the Android operating system that now powers so many devices, is open source.
