Posted on 09/20/2017 3:16:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jack Ma knows artificial intelligence will change the world.
The Alibaba founder and chairman doesn't think we should be scared. But he does think we should be prepared for major disruptions to the job market.
"In the last 200 years, manufacturing (has brought) jobs. But today -- because of the artificial intelligence, because of the robots -- manufacturing is no longer the main engine of creating jobs," Ma said Wednesday in a speech at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York City.
Moving forward, Ma said he believes the service industry will be the largest engine of job creation.
Ma's stance is starkly different from the economic vision espoused President Donald Trump, who campaigned on an "America First" populist agenda and has repeatedly made promises to restore U.S. manufacturing jobs.....
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healthy manufacturing = healthy middle-class
No everything electronic is made by Chinese slave labor. Those are the robots.
I don’t see any use for manufacturing, except of course in all the countries that now make our stuff.
Healthy manufacturing = more secure country.
Do we really want to leverage our ability to produce goods necessary for our national defense to potential enemies?
Because only the ChiComs can have any manufacturing operations, right?
I am no luddite, but I have some level of concern about automation. It will decrease the need for human labor.
But not all humans are capable of being systems analysts, AI programmers or network architects.
I think we might want to look into forming self-sustaining communities where people know how to farm, build houses, create and maintain machines. Not so much because they need these skills to survive — automation is likely to create a post-scarcity world where you have “stuff” and way too much time. Back to the land movements can be good because the alternative is to sit and home and watch The View on TV all day long.
Basic skills, it seems to me, are always a good thing to teach.
Are robots going to fix your car or build your house?
When I was a supervisor at the unemployment office you should’ve heard the shouting if I turned off the TV in the lobby.
Eventually yes, of course they will.
He’s right. Automation is taking manufacturing jobs away around the world. You can bring back the manufacturing but the jobs will stay gone. If you look at gross output the manufacturing sector in America is quite strong, it’s only when you start looking at the job numbers that things get rough. And that’s not improving.
>>I know his won’t be a popular opinion here.
Because most people don’t read past the headline or understand the purpose of the John Dewey method of education.
School, and undergrad college, teaches people to color inside the lines, to regurgitate facts, and to follow set schedules. It makes productive and compliant little citizens, not innovators. It rewards the loud extroverts and declares the introspective to be broken.
We will never be a manufacturing nation again (until the Progressives/Globalists destroy our way of life and force us to accept Third World wages).
“Moving forward, Ma said he believes the service industry will be the largest engine of job creation.”
We heard that already, right before our middle class got wiped out.
Until that happens as more than a prototype it’s BS, like the flying car.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
America is vastly overpopulated, especially with imbeciles and illiterate, unskilled “immigrants”, who will be nothing but a drag on our economy and fiscal well-being for a long time. Obama even let in NATIVE Central Americans who don’t even speak Spanish! They came in by the tens of thousands, wrecking schools and social services. We need to end chain migration for ALL immigrants, stop unskilled immigration cold and adopt a New Zealand-like filter. We also need to stop subsidizing childbearing with tax breaks and the unearned “Earned Income Tax Credit” with Additional Credit. Why do we want stupid people reproducing? If they do, cut off welfare at the last child’s level. Automation changes EVERYTHING as far as population growth feeding the pension system. That is all over. Yet idiot libertarians continue to spew that nonsense.
Stupid.
Let the robots try biomanufacturing.
Or prototyping (i.e., making anything new.)
Or customized products.
BIG FAIL!!!!
We cannot become a nation of McDonald’s or Walmart workers in the “service industry”. Or those who treat elders as trash as “assisted living” workers. This is a recipe for a downward standard of living, among other things. PHOOEY!!!!
Actually, robots will take those jobs soon enough.
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