Posted on 09/05/2021 7:59:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks.
“It doesn’t call sick,” says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI voice at its Arby’s franchise this year in Ontario, California. “It doesn’t get corona. And the reliability of it is great.”
The pandemic didn’t just threaten Americans’ health when it slammed the U.S. in 2020 — it may also have posed a long-term threat to many of their jobs. Faced with worker shortages and higher labor costs, companies are starting to automate service sector jobs that economists once considered safe, assuming that machines couldn’t easily provide the human contact they believed customers would demand.
Past experience suggests that such automation waves eventually create more jobs than they destroy, but that they also disproportionately wipe out less skilled jobs that many low-income workers depend on. Resulting growing pains for the U.S. economy could be severe. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Well, that was kind of the objective from the start
And I trust plenty of democrat taliban voters lose their jobs.
“Past experience is that they create more jobs, even if disruptive.” Yeah, past. It does not mean that will still be the case, as AI becomes more capable. There comes a tipping point where AI could become so capable that it turns a 1,000 man warehouse into a three man operation and 997 people are simply superfluous.
Thank $15 an hour!
A big percentage of the population is just going to be unemployable. And it’s not just burger flippers. A lot of legal work (”respectable white-collar stuff”) can be done by machines now. This is going to be a real problem.
Sure, you might be able to send a check to people who just sit at home but the people who do work will be angry, and the people sitting at home will be bored. Trouble comes from both bored people and angry people.
“...They are leaving a view to die for.”
You’re describing Amazon warehouses, robots to read zip codes and shunt packages into appropriate chute. A few live bodies to replace/repair malfunctioning robots.
“It doesn’t call sick,” says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI voice at its Arby’s franchise this year in Ontario, California. “It doesn’t get corona. And the reliability of it is great.”
I may resume using drive-throughs if this becomes ubiquitous. I don't like worrying about spit and drugs in my food, and attempts to stiff me on change, by the sociopaths who currently pollute the ranks of the low-level employed.
“These fifty-foot women, they’re slapping your face. Machines remind you that you can be replaced! Your incredible, the incredible shrinking man!”
~ Daniel Amos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lclyl_Pozjk
The prevailing wage could be $2 an hour and a machine would still be cheaper in the long run. Once the machine is paid for it's essentially cost free barring maintaince. If a job can be automated it will, a $15 an hour wage doesn't much factor into it because the savings will be far greater no matter what the wages.
Nope.
There’s a set of diminishing returns as customers now no longer able to make ends meet, can no longer afford your offerings, and you go out of business.
I remember the numbers approximately: the CBO found raising the federal minimum wage to 15 would raise 900k above the poverty line, but 1.4M would lose their jobs. But, hey, we don’t care. All our rulers care about are sound bites and narratives. Actual facts don’t matter
The company I am at has been outsourcing for several years now for various depts. I received an email this past week that said that in Poland they were going to be helping with Latin support as soon as they had enough Spanish speakers.....
You will be served by Boston Dynamic robots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFK9lkez32E
And one day you will serve the robots.
What do you mean going to be? Have you been down by the freeway lately?
Fast food restaurants will be completely automated in 4 years. Except for a manager and a cleaner we don’t need people. The work and process is so standardized already
There will be additional jobs created. Some may be nonsensical like Walmart greeters, others not so much.
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