大数据时代、机器人时代、自动化时代,会让人类的未来变得更好,还是更糟?美国著名思想家尼古拉斯·卡尔对此持悲观态度。他在《玻璃笼子》一书中用了大量的篇幅来谈论各类领域内,自动化、智能化、机器化的新科技应用所无法避免的局限性。出现这种局限性,主要是因为,无论是何等精妙和智能化的机器,都还没有掌握人的直觉,面对概率性问题的判断时,数 Big data era, the robot era, the era of automation, will make the future of mankind become better, or worse? Nicolas Karl, the famous American thinker pessimistic attitude. In “Glass Cage,” he devotes a lot of space to discussing the inevitable limitations of new, automated, intelligent and machine-based applications in a variety of fields. This limitation occurs mainly because, no matter how subtle and intelligent machines are, human instincts have not yet been mastered, and in the face of the judgment of probabilistic problems, the number of