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ESTERO Crews battle 2.5-acre brush fire near Alico and Eagle Village Drive San Carlos Park Fire District is on the scene fighting a 2.5-acre brushfire near Alico and Eagle Village Drive.
FORT MYERS Jake’s story: A mother’s mission to share her son’s story and help other young people One Fort Myers mom is turning her pain into purpose after her son, who she refers to as her “heavenly Angel,” took his own life.
CAPE CORAL New renderings for the Cape Coral Yacht Club promise a bright future The Cape Coral Yacht Club, which has been part of this community since the 1960s, will now have a new look after Hurricane Ian’s devastating effects.
LEHIGH ACRES Owner bars public from Barefoot Lake, LCSO installs Watch Tower Every weekend, roughly 200 people go to Barefoot Lake in Lehigh Acres to relax, fish, swim and have a good time.
CAPE CORAL Concern over water shortage in Cape Coral Concern is flowing through Cape Coral as neighbors are seeing their canal levels low and their wells run dry.
FORT MYERS FSW softball swinging for success in the postseason Now their focus shifts to states which means the newbies are looking to the experienced sophomores for advice.
BONITA SPRINGS Young SWFL tennis player competing with professionals You may not know her name now, but you might want remember it because 16-year-old Cookie Jarvis-Tredgett is already competing with professionals.
NORTH NAPLES ‘It’s all about connection,’ Statement Peace makes jewelry with sustainability in mind The brand Statement Peace, once started inside founder Jessica Lee’s home, is now in 2,700 stores across the country
Pine Manor 2 arrested for firing gun at birthday party in Pine Manor A party ended with two people behind bars.
FORT MYERS Shooting investigation on busy Fort Myers street Police are conducting a shooting investigation that involves a traffic crash near Michigan Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard.
FGCU New FGCU athletic director Colin Hargis ready to build on department’s success New FGCU athletic director Colin Hargis talks about the department’s future amid the age of NIL and the transfer portal.
FORT MYERS More middle-aged women being treated for acne You probably thought you broke up with it after high school, but acne is rearing it’s ugly blackheads in adult women.
Lee County student ran up and hit teacher in head, report shows The report says a 13-year-old student ran up and smacked a teacher in the head because multiple classmates offered him money to do so.
NAPLES Collier Planning Commission continues discussion for apartments near Fiddler’s Creek The developer of Fiddler’s Creek wants to build hundreds of luxury apartments on a slice of a 600 acre-plus property known as section 29.
CAPE CORAL Fatigue sets in for third day of FEMA hearings Flying several hours to come to a FEMA code compliance hearing in Cape Coral is the reality for John Gasparini from Maryland.
pixabay.com (CBS)– Computers powered by artificial intelligence are smart enough to threaten a range of jobs, whether computers developing treatment plans for cancer patients or Amazon.com opening a grocery store without checkout lines. That impact is already being felt. The World Economic Forum expects automation, including AI, to result in the loss of at least 5 million jobs globally by 2020. In the view of Genpact (G) CEO NV “Tiger” Tyagarajan, however, the bigger question is how many jobs such technology will ultimately create. Genpact, formerly a unit of General Electric (GE), provides what it calls “digitally powered” business process services, which relies on ever-more intelligent tech, to a range of corporate clients. He spoke with CBS MoneyWatch about how AI is affecting the economy. CBS MoneyWatch: How smart are computers? NV “Tiger” Tyagarajan: They have been smart for quite some time.You can leverage and use their smartness only if they have access to data that makes them smart. Only now are the computers and the software available that are capable of dealing with the masses of data. So say you teach a computer that two times two equals four. How can you leverage that information? Tyagarajan: Let’s take your example and let’s say the data show that when something comes from Boston, it’s two times two equals 4 and when something originates from New York it’s not 4, it’s 3.95, and when it originates at 2 p.m. it’s 3.85. So the reality is that the world is filled with data which has patterns. Over time the computer says,“Huh, here’s a pattern that I recognize. Every time this and this and this takes place, this human being makes this decision The next time this happens, I am going to make the same decision.” Are you saying AI can tell you the “what” but not the “why”? Tyagarajan: You hit the nail on the head. The machine can look at the past and then say that’s how you always took decisions, so I am going to take the same decision. It can’t change that on the fly and say, “Sorry, I am going to make a different decision.” It can’t inject emotion and all other human characteristics. It cannot explain why it took the decision that it took. Of course, not matter how “smart” technology is, you can’t compensate for incomplete or poor quality data. During the recent presidential election, for instance, polling data showed that Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, would likely win. Was that a failure of data or a failure of the algorithm that resulted in the erroneous conclusions that were drawn? Tyagarajan: My perspective is that the data analysis showed what the data showed. If you did not go and ask the people who ultimately turned out that day to vote, then whatever your data shows has a mistake. You’re saying that the conclusions or inferences computers make are only as good as the data they collect. Tyagarajan: That’s one of the dangers. The whole world is excited about artificial intelligence. Many technologists are excited. Businesspeople are excited. I am excited. However, it’s important to understand “Garbage In. Garbage Out.“ Data gets created by people. If that is bad, then actually it’s even more dangerous to have a machine make a decision rather than to have a human make a decision. Unless you tell a machine to check for garbage, it doesn’t know how to check for garbage. Can AI learn from its mistakes? Tyagarajan: Yes, it can learn, but a human being has to tell the computer, “Hey, you made a mistake, and here is the correction.” Then that goes back into the algorithm, and the algorithm then says “OK, I got it and the next time I will take that into account.” So over time mistakes are corrected. What sorts of workers are likely to be replaced by machines, and will new jobs be created as a result? Tyagarajan: The way that I would think about something like machine learning, computers, automation and so is that it’s going to change the nature of jobs. It’s going to create new jobs that we don’t even know exist. So the good news is I think there will be enough jobs in the future. The bad news is that the new jobs will require new skills. Of that, there is no question. © 2016 CBS Interactive Inc.. All Rights Reserved.