The Coming Zombie Robot Driving Apocalypse of You

globalds

does Ed Banks Know the Zombies have pretty much stolen his job ?

globalds

Now Lewis Hamilton is about to lose his Job.

I think this is more aesthetic than informative ..But if I am going to be riding in a robot car ..Then it should be bad a$$ and going damned fast:cool:

caronoel

cells wrote: »

I know of one such person who was driving and Killed himself and 3 of the 4 passengers in his car and 2 people in the car they crashed into. 5 people dead and 1 disabled in one human incident. The cause was alcohol speed and stupidity.

I hope the selfish drunk driver burns in hell for this

michaels

michaels wrote: »

I think it is even more profound than the vid suggests. WE are getting more and more accustomed to allowing 'experts' to take decisions for us, not just doctors but teachers, social workers etc etc

Pretty soon 'machine intelligence' will have surpassed what humans can decide in many situations so if we then do the sensible thing and hand over our decision making to the artificial brains we end up effectively as pets, having been out evolved by our creations.

Steven Hawking may have got it wrong on string theory but he is finally catching up with me on the consequences of AI:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30290540

Wheezy_2

michaels wrote: »

Steven Hawking may have got it wrong on string theory but he is finally catc
hing up with me on the consequences of AI:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30290540

Maybe the professor is not catching up at all and his speech computer made it all up?

JWF

Wheezy wrote: »

Maybe the professor is not catching up at all and his speech computer made it all up?

He survived Y2K without his chair developing sweariness and random out of control motion, yet he gets taken down finally by AI in 2014 lol

IveSeenTheLight

cells wrote: »

I know of one such person who was driving and Killed himself and 3 of the 4 passengers in his car

Just picking on this small section of your post related to drink driving.

We recently had an EHS moment to highlight the drink driving limit being reduced in Scotland and the impact it has on next day driving.

We also concluded that the passengers should not get into a car of someone they suspect is under the influence of drink (or drugs) and they should take ownership to try and persuade the driver, not to drive.

It may seem harsh to point criticism to the passengers, but just a point that they should consider to ensure their own safety.

RuthnJasper

All this is complete arrant nonsense.

Everyone knows that cats will enslave us all in the end. I work in a vets practice and I have seen it in their eyes*.

Forget robots and zombies - unless they are feline robots and zombies, and arm yourself with as much catnip as you can stockpile...


*purring is actually cat-speak for "put bombs everywhere".

globalds

Back again ...Those danged Robots ...Now they are stealing my next career move of becoming a high roller in Vegas

http://www.wsj.com/articles/computer-conquers-texas-hold-em-canadian-researchers-say-1420743623

cells

globalds wrote: »

I know I keep stressing the point ..But it is the rate of change that will be the kicker.

It is the exponential we as humans struggle with ,this doubling upon doubling is leaving us unaware of the massive steps now being taken with each advancement.

We have done two things that although quite right and I wouldn't have chosen anything else might now ..If we can't reconsider these principle things , cause some real social problems when we try to solve this next dilemma.

First is the attitude to unemployment ~ like I said I think shirkers and skivers need to be frowned on by society ~ But when the Zombie robots start taking over for example almost all transport jobs ..we have to have a plan in place for these people and it probably won't be a new job.

Second point in the same dilemma is how we pass the cash around the system ..wages were part of that work and reward system ..but we are going to have to find ways of rewarding other services .. parenthood maybe or just a dividend ?
But no money swilling around will break our system as fast as the zombies are making it better.

What happens will be the same as the last 100 years.

Just for arguments sake (ie ignore the exact numbers but think of the points)

Transport currently costs the uk £100B a year and employs 2 million people. This is everyone from delivery drivers to insurance workers to mechanics to...everyone and everything transport related.

Once computer cars come in the cost and jobs fall by 80%. So 1.6 million jobs lost but £80B more money available.


So two things will happen. First the government will get greedy and take most that £80B saving for itself. So say motoring taxes are increased by £50B...transport is still cheaper but government has taken 50 of tge 80 billion saving.


So right there the government has the ££££ to employ a million people. Eg more heal care to care for an ageing population. Maybe more teachers ir whatever.

The £30B saving not taken by the gov stays in the publics pockets. They then spend that on whatever. More restaurant trips more house extensions more music lessons for little timmy etc. That £30B spending creates 0.6m new jobs.


so what happened was 1.6m transport jobs were lost but 1.6m other jobs were created.

We just reallocated our human resources to meet the next thing on our list of needs and wants.


this is what has been happening for two hundred years and it hss a long way to go yet.


We will of course get to a saturation point at some stage (I don't think in our lifetime) at which point we will likely start doing 'silly' things like investing 80% of our gdp in science and arts.

And at some final stage everything will be so automated, even research and development, that we either transform into a world of infinite wealth and wellbeing or we bow to our AI overlord and do what it is commands