Posted on 07/14/2017 9:43:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The race to create A.I. and robotic technology that will change the way we work and live is dominating countless industries.
But the chaos and disruption these ground-breaking fields are set to have on numerous areas of the economy, the job market, the banking system and the transportation industry have also incited fear.
Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma has previously warned that society could see decades of "pain" thanks to new technologies.
While Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that humans need to merge with machines to become a sort of cyborg if we want to stay relevant.
But forgetting wild predictions for the future, one chief executive believes he has the answer to one of the biggest tech questions of today: Will a robot take my job?
Speaking to CNBC in an episode of Life Hacks Live, VaynerMedia CEO and social media guru Gary Vaynerchuk said those working in potentially replaceable jobs need to start learning a new trade for the digital world.
"Robots taking over jobs are an issue for people that do jobs that robots are going to take over," said Vaynerchuk.
"People have lost their jobs forever. Jobs are always lost."
The CEO added that he didn't "feel bad" for the likes of truck drivers who aren't taking important steps to adapt.....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Re-program robots to attack CEO.
That is preposterous. Wages in China are 1/10 the wages in the USA. US workers and factories cannot compete with virtual slave labor. Your globalist econ propaganda is duly noted.
“Tell that to a 54 year old with a mortgage, two kids and college and a car payment.”
I was Obama’d out of a career at age 59. Thanks to Obama I probably couldn’t have gotten a job even if I could defecate gold eggs. The economy under Obola suffered terribly. I applied for jobs as far away as Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, as I had worked for a company with operations in those countries. I had a hot phone interview where I blew away the interviewer with my knowledge and accomplishments but as the phone interview, with what sounded like a twenty-something, ended, he made a gratuitous joke about older workers. I realized that the next level video interview was a waste of time, and that turned out to be the case. (I am guessing they looked at the date I graduated with an MBA, which was recent, and ignored the engineering degree, which was from 1979.)
On the other hand, we have to play the cards we are dealt and nobody has a say in that. I started buying low-end rental houses and I am eking out an income. Frankly, I am much happier working for myself than I was following the illogical, political dictates from people so on-high they had no idea, or care, what the situation was on the ground.
Several times in my career, I had to leave through no fault of my own; due to layoffs, buyouts, contract losses, etc. Each time, I ended up in a better place financially. Until, of course, the last time.
Change is not, on the whole, a bad thing. We get stuck in a comfortable rut. For my father’s generation that rut lasted an entire career and they retired with a defined benefit plan. I retired with just what I’d saved and that wasn’t nearly enough. So, I am essentially gambling with the money I have knowing that if I leave it where it is, in stocks and savings, it will be reduced in value to inconsequential small change by a government that can’t make a budget. I am therefore investing in something that will increase much faster in value, cash flow from rentals. Whatever the market rate is, caused by inflation, a renter will have to pay it. His pay will adjust for inflation because he is currently running on the employment treadmill while I am not.
Huh?
So what do you propose—that we become a nation of Luddites? Stop the productivity improvements that have led us to an ever-higher standard of living?
So you believe in the free market only up until folks have to be responsible for themselves?
Oh, and the kids can work their way through college if they’re college material. Though if Mom and Dad are so hopeless, it’s probably better for the kids to learn some sort of trade.
Offshoring increases automation by furthering comparative advantage and also making use of cheap tech talent to build more efficient systems and processes.
They dropped out because they created greater opportunities for themselves than some sort of college degree was required for.
They know a lot and obviously have been very successful in the tech world.
Robot of course is a flimsy word. But MS Office replaced many a secretary and ATMs replaced many a bank teller as just two examples.
I really don’t get where you are coming from.
I read this as “scared robots” will take my job. I wondered why they would be more of a threat than regular robots.
This has been a loudly lamented fear since the Luddites screamed about the Industrial Revolution.
It's a wonder you haven't asphyxiated through failing to breathe in and out without being told to.
Cheap tech talent? Cheap yes, talent, no.
Ever hear of "bloatware" ?
The systems are monumentally *less* efficient; ditto for the processes. ("Por Espanol, [something]-ez numero uno. For English, Press "two". To reach your party if you know their name, enter their extension. To hear an alphabetical list of employees, press "three." To go up one level, press "four." etc. ad nauseum)
What has happened is that all costs are pressed out to the suppliers and customers, as well as most of the risk; and customers are used as beta testers.
The real advances are due to Amdahl's law and improvements in the cost of computer memory.
One you go Agile, you get all the efficiencies of a design by committee.
Gates & Zuckerburg were very bright Ivy League students who spent enormous time absorbing bleeding-edge technical skills before their instructors could.
My washing machine is a reliable robot.
My iPhone is hardly a piece of junk. Between that and one notebook computer I make a good living writing apps.
“A man’s got a right to make a living.”
A man’s got a right to EARN a living.
There is always a way to improve another’s life at a fair price.
Worst case, you can live off the land.
You reiterate complaints heard since the Industrial Revolution. Everyone who wants a job can still get one (save for Leftist prohibitions on insufficient productivity aka minimum wage).
...or you are an SJW snowflake who was hired for diversity who isn't expected to actually do any work.
Actually, the employees of these outsourced manufacturing firms drive up the price of labor quickly, within these localities. I know of an Illinois firm that moved many hundreds of manufacturing jobs to China to save 40% of their overall costs. Within 18 months, the total cost, including air fares of key personnel and all of the turnover, retraining, and wage increases locally in China, became cost even.
Once a Chinese person can be shown to understand basic instructions and produce well, they leave for a place paying a lot more. Interestingly, China doesn’t let people freely move from town to town for work, so labor is relatively fixed.
They regretted having done the whole “exercise.”
Nope—bigger, better, faster hw is useless unless systems are updated to make use of it.
If you don’t think IT has advanced productivity, well, I guess there is nothing I can do to persuade you. I already gave two simple examples above.
Sure, there is inefficiency in coding and design, just like there is inefficiency in everything. More than a few companies have onshored after offshoring. But more than a few companies have been able to design, produce and maintain competitive solutions and innovations with the use of cheaper, yes, talent abroad.
“Driverless vehicles...what kuldip go wrong?”
Traffic jams of empty cars diving circles around blocks waiting for owners instead of paying for expensive parking.
(My family went to NYC. They enjoyed the sights & stops while I drove in circles all day. Looking forward to owning a Tesla that will drive in circles without me.)
“I am getting burned out in IT.”
As an embedded systems and/or mobile app developer, I keep sane by increasingly living “back to basics” / “off the grid” at home.
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