This Is When A Robot Is Going To Take Your Job

[s28]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is when a robot is going to take your job, according to Oxford University <a href="https://t.co/wYGO8GHEDe">https://t.co/wYGO8GHEDe</a> <a href="https://t.co/nDXwco5XMZ">pic.twitter.com/nDXwco5XMZ</a></p>— World Economic Forum (@wef) <a href="https://twitter.com/wef/status/892812251857596425">2 August 2017</a></blockquote>
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[Leo23]

robots were supposed to take over by the year 2010....

the fact is that most of these futuristic studies are nonsense. if you go back to the predictions made in the 70s and 80s about life in 2010 and 2020 you would think that people of today would be living in mars and able to teleport from one planet to another and have super sonic jets...

 

[ahmedwaqas92]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is when a robot is going to take your job, according to Oxford University <a href="https://t.co/wYGO8GHEDe">https://t.co/wYGO8GHEDe</a> <a href="https://t.co/nDXwco5XMZ">pic.twitter.com/nDXwco5XMZ</a></p>— World Economic Forum (@wef) <a href="https://twitter.com/wef/status/892812251857596425">2 August 2017</a></blockquote>
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People fund this pile of garbage ???

Looks like some nerds dream rather than actual scientific inquisition on how things might be a century odd years from today.

 

[s28]

I agree it's right to be highly sceptical of any claims as to when technology is going to be commercially ready and also to always disbelieve the 'experts'. However some of these things are happening now and with the coalescence of several different technologies coming about together (AI,graphene,3D printing) there is a more rational basis for estimating when these trends will actually lead to such huge changes.

e.g. Journalism https://www.wired.com/2017/02/robots-wrote-this-story/

e.g. Finance https://www.ft.com/content/da7e3ec2-6246-11e7-8814-0ac7eb84e5f1

https://www.ft.com/content/da7e3ec2-6246-11e7-8814-0ac7eb84e5f1

JULY 7, 2017 by: Martin Arnold in London and Laura Noonan in New York

Robots are moving on to the trading floors of investment banks. UBS this week showcased how two artificial intelligence systems can help traders perform better at the Swiss bank’s futuristic new City of London office.

Many of the world’s biggest banks have for years been automating manual, repetitive tasks done by support staff to save money. But now they are putting the latest forms of artificial intelligence to work at the heart of operations among their star traders, allocating funds and analysing data to develop strategies.

“There has been a lot of talk about automation of the back office,” Beatriz Martín Jiménez, chief operating officer of UBS’s investment bank, told the Financial Times. “But we decided to start a conversation with the front-office guys on whether there were processes we could use a robot to do and we found a number of them.”

 

[Syed1]

Well new jobs will pop up.

For example, 10 years ago there was no concept of autonomous vehicles but now every major car manufacturer is trying to develop one. This means thousands of jobs for people in the field of machine learning, robotics etc which didn't exist just a decade ago.

 

[s28]

Yes that is the usual simplistic response you tend to get from the ill-informed

 

[Syed1]

Yes that is the usual simplistic response you tend to get from the ill-informed

Ill-informed



That is my field of study.

 

[s28]

You obviously don't understand the nature of Capital vs Labour. It will be in the interests of Capital to substitute that in favour of / to diminish Labour.

When we have autonomous cars what will hundreds of thousands of taxi drivers retrain as? What new jobs will be miraculously created to employ these people ?

 

[s28]

Many of us recognize robotic automation as an inevitably disruptive force. However, in a classic example of optimism bias, while approximately two-thirds of Americans believe that robots will inevitably perform most of the work currently done by human beings during the next 50 years, about 80% also believe their current jobs will either “definitely” or “probably” exist in their current form within the same timeframe.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/11/robots-jobs-employees-artificial-intelligence

 

[Syed1]

You obviously don't understand the nature of Capital vs Labour. It will be in the interests of Capital to substitute that in favour of / to diminish Labour.

When we have autonomous cars what will hundreds of thousands of taxi drivers retrain as? What new jobs will be miraculously created to employ these people ?

Same thing that horse-carriage drivers are doing. It's not like a switch will be flipped and all cars/taxis/buses will be autonomous. It is still 2-3 decades down the line.

 

[troodon]

Manual labor jobs will be eventually replaced by machines. Already seeing it.

This means there will be more jobs in technology related fields. Of course, even in tech fields, humans will be eventually replaced by machines. Its inevitable.

 

[CricketCartoons]

This will violate the zeroth law of Asimov.

 

[Black Zero]

This will violate the zeroth law of Asimov.

Interesting as I take this as a tool that would enable humanity to get rid of slavery. (So losing jobs would be beneficial instead )