keskiviikko 3. huhtikuuta 2019

Will robots take over the world?



 
So this last week - I went to Sofia, invited by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education to talk about Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in Europe on this area. This week - off to Ukraine, but that is a different story.

This conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, Educate to Create, has relevance: the estimation is that 40% of the future Jobs will be taken over by AI. This is distruptive to our society where we have been accustomed to go to school, get a job and stay in that job for the next 40 years until retirement. This will not be the future. Does this mean that the job security will be a thing of the past? Not necessarily.

This conference talked a lot about educating the students in schools and also higher education towards transversal skills. These skills are the ones needed to do the Jobs that machines simply cannot do. Major other concerns in the conference raised were: so-called life drop-out students, how could AI help them? (My suggestion was to let AI identify them by their smartphones and push education at the personalized manner to their favorite screens... we need to go where the people are - listen to what they have got to say for developing these emerging technologies)

Indeed the higher education faces the point in reality where it is in danger of falling behind. - We have hired teachers and lecturers at tenure track positions. For those of the readers that do not know, that means - for life. And we are facing the fact that the Jobs of tomorrow require skillsets that were not around when they got their training... No longer can we repeat our everyday life as it is, but the future requires initiation, active participation and adoption to the changing technologies and reqirements of the labour Market. This is the applies directly to teachers.

Even university lecturers are required to keep up with the advancements of the technologies around. This is a necessity. This is the future. Siri will soon be able to scout through the Learning resources of the internet - present us with the most suitable courses. Tell us which modules we already know and indeed how long does it take for us to study the ones we can learn from. Our students will be able to do this as well. This means - if you are uninspiring lecturer repeating things they already know - they will get super snappy lecturer from ted talks to explain it faster and better for them.

Today, I was inspired by so many things. Did you know that Malta has the only Ministry that has combined both Education and Employment? I Think Finns - we could learn from this. Did you know that western Civilization in the world might only have to work 4h per day when the Robots take over..? Did you know that Bulgaria is the country who puts education first - to the front lines... and why wouldnt they..?

Over the two days in Bulgaria, I was very impressed by many things - but not the least by the debuty minister of education, Ms Karina Angilieva. Her drive, her insights, her vision, her humble nature of inviting experts and learn from them. This is a product of Bulgarian Education system and for a small system, they should be proud.

In Finland, we have 6M people. In Bulgaria we have 7M. We have the same size identity - innovate or be left behind... luckily, both countries are excelling on the things we do. I have a suggestion: Let’s do it together! No just Finland - Bulgaria. But the rest of the Europe. Our artificial intelligence is in the cutting edge - drive on this momentum. Not let our fears to stop us from adopting to the world where not only our cars drive themselves but our students use the best quality Learning resources around the world to excell. This is our times as Europeans to talk about what we want our artificial-intelligence driven world to look like. Let’s do this!

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/ Lyhyesti suomeksi viime viikolla Bulgariassa paikallisen opetus- ja tiedeministeriön kutsumana, puhumassa tekoälystä. Koko päivä ja eilinenkin oli innostavaa - Eurooppalaisina meillä on mahdollisuus olla vahvempia yhdessä. Tämän tulevaisuuden teknologian hyppysissä, olemme kaikki nöyriä. Toiset pelkäävät tulevaisuutta, jossa terminaattorit tulevat ja ottavat vallan maailmalla. Olemme kuitenkin todella kaukana siitä maailmasta, jossa koneilla on tietoisuus. Tällä hetkellä tekoäly on ns. Heikkoa tekoälyä ja itseasiassa tätä on ollut olemassa jo vuosikymmeniä. Kehitys näyttää näennäisesti nopealta mutta on itseasiassa hidasta - todellisiin tekoälyn eettisiin vaaroihin on siis matkaa. Ne ovat edelleen Science Fictionia, tapahtuen ehkä tulevaisuudessa...

Silti - tämä kaksi päivää Bulgariassa inspiroi minua. Miksi? No koska tekoäly on upea leikkikenttä - paljon tilaa innovaatioille. Toisekseen siksi että tämä pieni maa, (7M ihmistä) on monella tapaa samankaltainen kuin omamme. Meidän täytyy pinnistellä menestykseen ja Bulgarialaisilla on huikea varaopetusministeri, täynnä tarmoa, energiaa ja ennen kaikkea nöyryyttä oppia muilta. Viisas ei ole se joka tietää eniten, vaan se, joka seuraa eniten tietävää ja innovoi sen pohjalta.

Kaikenkaikkiaan kokemuksena tämä päivä oli rockstar-tykitystä. Paljon ideoita. Paljon uusia kontakteja. Toisinaan työllä jota teen on merkitystä. Se oli tänään. Huomenna takaisin täyttämään lomakkeita... nämä tietysti töitä jotka onneksi tulevaisuudessa robotit hoitavat puolestamme... Uskonpa niin - että tämä yhteistyö tulee poikimaan yhteistä myös tulevaisuudessa. Kaksi päivää well spent.
 
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