Workplace automation anf the future of employment.

[Ribenapigeon]

What's the future for us as robotics and expert computer systems make more and more work roles obsolete?

How far off is your work role from being given over to "the machines"?

[MarJay]

I do tech support for those machines, so I hope I'll be OK.
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[Andy_Pagin]

The next big leap in tech-takeover is going to require:

Artificial intelligence - we're not remotely close to achieving that. We don't even fully understand our own intelligence.

Autonomous android robots - No chance without AI, and a leap forward in battery technology.

On the other hand self driving cars will have a catastrophic impact on anyone who drives for a living. Apparently something like 20% of Americans list their profession as 'truck driver'. Factor in perfectly driven cars lasting much longer, needing less servicing and rarely crashing and you're looking at a hell of a lot of redundant people.
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[t121anf]

This thread reminded me of this old video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

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[dydey90]

Everywhere I've worked, the automation seems to require less operators and more engineers. Since I'm an engineer, I should be ok.
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[Ribenapigeon]

Its not just jobs that require physical input that are at risk. I saw some guy on tv a while back saying how computer systems giving legal advice were out performing humans and also certain forms of psychotherapy like cognitive behavioral therapy are just ad effective when delivered by computer.

What I think is quite ironic is that in the future where it might not be economic to make a robot do the most menial of tasks the only jobs open for people will be the most servile and low skilled. To think we've all been encouraged to aspire to white collar jobs and all that will be left will be sweeping up after the robots.

[Polarbear]

Give it a few generations and 2% will be the rich and about 70% in service industries for the rich. The rest might be actually doing something productive.

When I was a kid, (yes, I was once, about woolly mammoth era) people talked of the day everyone didn't work and robots took over. Will never happen because the rich won't give enough money to the poor to fund a decent lifestyle. Look how much people hate those on the dole.
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[Andy_Pagin]

This debate probably started when the wheel was invented...
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[pepperami]

AI , robots , automation, pah! It really won't bother me, I'm old and bone idle and will be deaded long before all that stuff has a chance to f*ck up my life
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[Rogerborg]

I keep hearing that programmers will be made obsolete by the advent of Nth generation tools that will read the customer's mind, and the software will spring forth fully formed from their brow.

Couple of problems with that:

1) Customers tend not to know what they want, so much as being adamant that you've build the wrong thing when they see it.

2) These tools are being build by programmers who are just prone error as anyone else.
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[andyscooter]

A robot could do my hob but would still need someone to tell it what to do

Also can robots read hand drawn blueprints with crap handwriting (I struggle) is that 100 mm or 160mm
Bloke who did it "I'm not sure hang on a sec"

Also can the robot bugger off to the warehouse and get the material that's not in the correct place as the manufacturers changed the profile without telling us

Fuckwits
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[Itchy]

Robots you say...


https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/terminator-draft-23-photos-24.gif?w=600&h=340

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[stevo as b4]

Let me know when robots can pull in 1.5km lengths of copper and fibre optic cables under ground, splice fibre optic cables and install and test residential and commercial optical fibre equipment and modems and upgrade existing superfast fibre networks etc.

When they can I'll worry about being redundant.

[RhynoCZ]

A friend of mine works in this IT company where he makes ''computer robots'' which automate all the office work you can think off.

For instance, imagine you have an employee who works with computer data and database information of all sorts. My mate comes, creates a computer program that does all that, making the human in question obsolete. Just the other month his company was in Wales, where the IT lad made a computer program that could process the company's customer orders and do other office work. 6 humans were fired that day, as they became obsolete.
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[Ribenapigeon]

[Lord Percy]

Saw hints recently about low-level crime sentencing being automated. Essentially if you're caught, you have the choice of pleading innocent and involving loads of humans who have to assess the case, or you just log on to the computer system and press 'guilty' then pay the given fine.

Reminds me of this in a way - Demolition Man - verbal morality statute.

Part of me thinks that society could already be more automated than it is, and the only block to progress is the overall human reluctance to embrace "The Big Change".

There are however some things that will never be automated. For example, a viable motorcycle helmet visor rain wiping system.

[Suntan Sid]