Humans Loosing their jobs to technology

RuthnJasper

geerex wrote: »

Quick! There's an "s" at the end of a word!

APOSTROPHE APOSTROPHE APOSTROPHE! !!!

Apo'strophe cata'strophe! Should've got a robot in.

InsideInsurance

Gavin83 wrote: »

I'm also not sure I agree with them being destroyed easier in natural catastrophe either, machines are much more robust than a human body which is in all honesty pretty weak. Any company with a decent amount of computing power will have a UPS solution in place and while I agree the intial outlay is greater the savings are pretty obvious in the long run.

The advantage of humans though is that they can move. Having spent 2 years looking at Nat Cat claims whenever there has been large floods, earthquakes etc the claims for damaged machinery has always been massively more than the claims for loss of life/ injury.

If a major flood warning is given then staff move out and predominately get to higher ground where as robots on the assembly line are left behind and are damaged in the waters.

UPS is fine for providing a short lifeline to save critical functions etc. I doubt many companies have generators large enough to sustain continuous full production rates on a fully mechanised production line.

usac

Gavin83 wrote: »

I'd personally get my own sex robot. Problem solved!

That solves your problem but what about the other men who would prefer human vagina to robot vagina? A women can use a cucumber or any other vegetable/fruit which in turn a man cannot. Penises are easily man made & vagina's aren't.

usac

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Buy your sex robot another sex robot for it to have sexy time with. Problem solved!

robotic !!!!!!?

usac

ringo_24601 wrote: »

In that case, we'll have reached the singularity; so I will join the rebel alliance in it's quest to free humanity from the rise of the machines

You will be fighting a robot army controlled by a human commander. Your friend dies & cannot be replaced, a robot dies & is replaced within the hour.

usac

The_Jokecentre_Plus wrote: »

Yeah I was wondering about this to. I watched a documentary on YouTube about this called "I LOST MY JOB" Its all about people losing their jobs to robots. People will be amazed at what robots can do and unlike humans they don't Complain, Turn up late, Have an attitude problem or make mistakes.

Yes it is currently happening. Humans replaced by robots. Humans working side by side to robots. The video's can be seen on youtube.

usac

ringo_24601 wrote: »

But do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?

In my current lifetime, I don't expect to see a highly intelligent AI (we're more likely to see stable fusion reactor). It's not about how fast your computer works - it's about fundamentally understanding how intelligence is formed. It may be that our current computer architecture just isn't right to produce a real intelligence.

Gavin83 wrote: »

I consider intelligence as the ability to interpret the world around you, learn from your experiences and be able to apply that to future situations. Assuming that definition I'll think we'll see computers with an equal level of intelligence to humans in the next few decades. Computers with the ability to 'think' really aren't that far off. It may never be true intelligence but certainly to the point that you couldn't tell the difference.

The difficulty is a lack of emotion for computers but who's to say that this also couldn't be programmed?

bugslet wrote: »

http://analysis.telematicsupdate.com/v2x-safety/autonomous-truck-convoys-question-when-not-if

There's already been plenty of trials of driverless trucks. I can't find the link, but I do remember reading that Volvo were trying out a platoon of ten trucks controlled by 1 driver in the first truck.

A long way off yet, but one day it will arrive.

Google has made self driving cars. If that is not Artificial Intelligence than what is?

DKLS

One thing for certain technology is disrupting traditional business models and turning them inside out.
As seen in the music, publishing and Tv, whats next?

Looks like Black cab drivers are doomed if they continue with their current model.

getmore4less

We will regress back to a service based society
(although we never left it in reality)


The cycle is do something(that people need{or want}) more productive than someone else you will do better


Education/genius(free time!) got us the robots as well as the combine harvester we move on.

Valli

usac wrote: »

What will you do when your every day to day task you currently do is now taken over by a robot?

usac wrote: »

What will you do now?

I will trawl fora and rectify the grammatical mistakes of others.:)

usac wrote: »

Let's say your evil father in law [STRIKE]buy's[/STRIKE]buys your wife a sex robot & as time passes [STRIKE]on[/STRIKE] she starts preferring [STRIKE]more [/STRIKE]robot sex[STRIKE] then[/STRIKE]to sex with you. How will you beat a robot in bed with your wife?