13-01-2014, 05:25 PM
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The robots are coming to steal our jobs!
Told yah!"The robots are coming to steal our jobs
Originally Posted by BBC News
Mr Jacobstein predicts that artificial intelligence will overtake human intelligence in the mid-2020s, begging the question - what will a society dominated by machine intelligence look like and what exactly will be our role in it?
Originally Posted by BBC News
Chinese company Hon Hai, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, has announced it intends to build a robot-making factory and replace 500,000 workers with robots over the next three years.
Some very interesting times and social changes on the horizon.
13-01-2014, 06:30 PM
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Re: The robots are coming to steal our jobs!
If the march towards AI and Robotics continues at its present rate, human societies will simply have to change.If Robots actually take over jobs that humans currently do, what do those people then do to live and what will they live on if they cannot earn a living?
There's also the problem of business and politics - can a Robot be trained to do what businessmen and women currently do because I find it impossible to believe that any machine could be taught to do some of the things that are common in business and could you train a machine to lie?!
To an advanced machine, logic will always prevail but mankind is not driven or governed by logic; if anything, we're governed by greed.
A machine has no concept of possessions or riches - greed, because that's not necessary for them to continue to function.
Look at Asset Strippers for example - could you EVER train a machine - a Robot - to effectively destroy a perfectly viable business purely for personal gain?!
Could you train a Robot to make promises it cannot keep like a politician does?
Could you train a Robotic Doctor to have a good bedside manner?
Could you train Robotic Football Teams the nuances of Football when, logically it is a time-consuming waste of energy with risks of potential damage to the participants not to mention the unnecessary expenditure with Police, Ambulances, over-subscribed and crowded transport systems, the pressure on the NHS etcetera, etcetera?
No, sorry but I don't see AI / Robotics ever being allowed to progress to the point where it / they could be a threat to the existence of human beings and that would soon come about if you were to continue to let more and more advanced machines design and build the next generations.
They'd soon work out that biological, unreliable human beings are non-essential! stevmk2
13-01-2014, 10:28 PM
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They'd soon work out that biological, unreliable human beings are non-essential! stevmk2That's food for thought Steve.
Oh yes definitely big changes are on the way in my opinion, no more work for humans, the robots will be doing everything from managing whatever we possess to where we will live and how much space a person is allotted, what we will eat and when we should go to sleep and wake up, then eventually be put to sleep for good, it will all be the norm then and no one will even turn a hair, that's if one is allowed have hair, beards are definitely out, they are a sign of rebellion
, we may be the last generation who have experienced freedom and choice. We humans, as ever, are the masters of our own destruction, oh why wasn't I born a racehorse.
These lads will be first off the production line, to ensure you do as you are told.
14-01-2014, 12:37 PM
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Re: The robots are coming to steal our jobs!
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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They can't even make a decent vacuum that doesn't need a human to push it around so can't see me being out of a job.
http://robot-vacuum-review.toptenreviews.com/
14-01-2014, 12:42 PM
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LOL I was in on the testing in office environments of them, they cannot do the job a human can do and don't have any attachments for getting staples out of the carpets or finding food spills and clearing them up. They could not replace a human being doing the job. Also when they break down who notices and still makes sure the offices are clean ? not another vacuum but a human.14-01-2014, 12:45 PM
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I think the elite would rather enjoy far fewer peasants around - they are seriously outnumbered now and with all the rights that people have, it puts their 'right' to be elite under the spotlight.So I think this will happen to a large extent - as for doctors, to be honest, I think robots would probably be better for some of the reasons Steve has listed: robots would not put whether some drug company is offering lots of money to them to use drug therapy instead of surgery (or vice versa I suppose) and robots would be less likely to make errors of judgement. Take this for example: http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/1...urgery_r_1.php (also scroll to bottom of page for other robotic advances).
I think it is those of us at the bottom of the ladder that will have the most to worry about all of this - those at the top I would imagine will remain unaffected.
14-01-2014, 12:46 PM
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Re: The robots are coming to steal our jobs!
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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LOL I was in on the testing in office environments of them, they cannot do the job a human can do and don't have any attachments for getting staples out of the carpets or finding food spills and clearing them up. They could not replace a human being doing the job. Also when they break down who notices and still makes sure the offices are clean ? not another vacuum but a human.
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