If lots of jobs will be replaced by robots/automatons and these will turn out lots of products and services who will buy if people are out of work and don't have money?
Thank you. I tried to check the rules and see if there is something specific about it. Considering there are people from all ages here I was uncertain if moving images are more of a nuisance. People with older computers and bad connections don't like them either.@apa, the GIF works and it's fine. I don't believe it's a bandwidth hog - I think it's self-contained.
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Maybe we should start to profile robots to find out what interests them & start a forum where they can bitch about humans etc.
Surely we could target advertising at the bastards .
One more video... what this one illustrates is that robots (at least right now) aren't good at doing custom jobs. Another example I can think of is trades work like plumbing, pipe fitting, welding, etc. These jobs, especially when it comes to new build or modification, need a human to adapt to issues that come up during the build. Robots are good at doing things that are known and steady state (e.g. assembly), but not so good at adaptation if something goes wrong.
And unless AI and machine learning gets to the point where a robot can adapt to changes beyond it's programming or constraints (e.g. a painting robot can't become a walking robot all of a sudden) I think we can find work for everyone. We need to be open minded and willing to acquire new skills. One thing I wish companies did more of is hire and send folks through so many months/years of training. True a company will not be making any money on the human during this training period put it should pay dividends in the future.
You are forgetting in the future we'll have tractor beams to lift "heavy" things and Star Trek like Transporters to beam us to the nearest hospitals. By my calculations, you'll only be safe for another 300 years. Better get your resume ready.My greatest point of pride in life is having enough brains to abandon the sinking ship of academia for what i suspect will be one of the last jobs to go - Paramedics. If a robot can do my job that will be the day that they are indistinguishable from humans. Interestingly enough while other fields are slashing workers we may become scarce as it seems the incoming generation increasingly lacks the basic skills required (like using their hands, lifting things and talking to people) to even begin to learn the ropes. For the kinds of folks who peruse this forum, it is a dream job.
I may be the most pessimistic of you all, but in a way it seems to be a good thing that we build the robots that may end up replacing us and further down the line, after resulting wars and sci-fi post apocalyptic scenarios, humans as a species are gone.
I thoroughly enjoy life and still force myself to believe that human beings are naturally good on the inside, but life experience tells me otherwise.
Even though it's a silly movie, but Marvel's Ultron and Mr. Smith from Matrix are right - humans are the cancer of this planet and it would be much better off without us.
I switched my mayors to teaching a year ago to get out of that hamster wheel that is todays white collar worklife. It think when the time comes that teaching by humans gets obsolete, that's the day when everything falls apart, because we either get rid of the "emotional" side of teaching (and therefore our kids are lacking big time) and everything comes down to yes or no tests or robots get so advanced that they can get emotional (appreciate art, music etc.) and they will replace us entirely.
I may be the most pessimistic of you all, but in a way it seems to be a good thing that we build the robots that may end up replacing us and further down the line, after resulting wars and sci-fi post apocalyptic scenarios, humans as a species are gone.
I thoroughly enjoy life and still force myself to believe that human beings are naturally good on the inside, but life experience tells me otherwise.
Even though it's a silly movie, but Marvel's Ultron and Mr. Smith from Matrix are right - humans are the cancer of this planet and it would be much better off without us.
I switched my mayors to teaching a year ago to get out of that hamster wheel that is todays white collar worklife. It think when the time comes that teaching by humans gets obsolete, that's the day when everything falls apart, because we either get rid of the "emotional" side of teaching (and therefore our kids are lacking big time) and everything comes down to yes or no tests or robots get so advanced that they can get emotional (appreciate art, music etc.) and they will replace us entirely.
I switched my mayors to teaching a year ago to get out of that hamster wheel that is todays white collar worklife. It think when the time comes that teaching by humans gets obsolete, that's the day when everything falls apart, because we either get rid of the "emotional" side of teaching (and therefore our kids are lacking big time) and everything comes down to yes or no tests or robots get so advanced that they can get emotional (appreciate art, music etc.) and they will replace us entirely.
I thoroughly enjoy life and still force myself to believe that human beings are naturally good on the inside, but life experience tells me otherwise.
Even though it's a silly movie, but Marvel's Ultron and Mr. Smith from Matrix are right - humans are the cancer of this planet and it would be much better off without us.
I may be the most pessimistic of you all, but in a way it seems to be a good thing that we build the robots that may end up replacing us and further down the line, after resulting wars and sci-fi post apocalyptic scenarios, humans as a species are gone.
I thoroughly enjoy life and still force myself to believe that human beings are naturally good on the inside, but life experience tells me otherwise.
Even though it's a silly movie, but Marvel's Ultron and Mr. Smith from Matrix are right - humans are the cancer of this planet and it would be much better off without us.
I switched my mayors to teaching a year ago to get out of that hamster wheel that is todays white collar worklife. It think when the time comes that teaching by humans gets obsolete, that's the day when everything falls apart, because we either get rid of the "emotional" side of teaching (and therefore our kids are lacking big time) and everything comes down to yes or no tests or robots get so advanced that they can get emotional (appreciate art, music etc.) and they will replace us entirely.