Google's Diane Greene: AI will cost jobs, so skills training is critical - SiliconANGLE

Machine learning will cost us jobs, a prominent technology executive acknowledged today, but she said job disruption isn't the insurmountable problem that many observers fear. Diane Greene, senior vice president in charge of Google Inc.'s cloud business, said at the Women in Data Science conference at Stanford University today that there's "no question" that machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence that uses data to help computers learn rather than explicitly programming them, is replacing jobs. SiliconANGLE Media's mobile live video studio, theCUBE, is doing live interviews at the conference. Already, Greene said, "machines are better than humans" at some tasks. Recently they've started to do better at some kinds of image and speech recognition, and they're performing tasks such as finding signs of disease in photos better than humans.