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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Are robots going to fix your car or build your house?
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“In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”
Who knows what the next 500+ years will
bring in terms of life, manufacturing, etc.
“-——— Or those who treat elders as trash as “assisted living” workers. “
How,exactly,do assisted living workers treat elderly like trash?
Assisted living workers cover a VERY broad range of care.
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If you don’t have the manufacturing processes, then you don’t have the robotic processes either.
It’s not going to be an instant transition from skilled labor to robotics.
Someone has to service the robots. Someone has to program the robots. Someone has to design the product. Someone has to design the manufacturing process.
We need as much manufacturing in this country as we can get. And we can worry about the transitions later.
Seems like only yesterday I was reading an analysis of the devastation wrought on carriage and buggy whip manufacturing by introduction of the automobile.
My understanding is that the US economy has yet to recover from the event.
A San Francisco startup 3D printed a whole house in 24 hours
Danny Noonan: Where did it land?
Ty Webb: Right in the lumberyard.
Alvin Toffler got there way way before you jack.
The way I see it is we’ll develop into two classes. The Gentry and the Serfs. The Gentry will propagate through inheritance and legacy acceptance into major universities and corporate board.
The printer won’t put that house on a lot.
At least some do! You gotta admit it!!!!
“Who knows what the next 500+ years will
bring in terms of life, manufacturing, etc.”
It will bring us Idiocracy. But maybe we are already there.
I recently retired from being one.
Very few folks seem to be getting the education they need for the field.
I think we can and should restore some manufacturing jobs, but I don't think the workers at these plant will enjoy the same level of prosperity that factory workers enjoyed in, say the 1960's.
Robots are already taking over manufacturing and inventory here and everywhere. Your average manufacturing joe, who’s either just out of prison or a High School drop out will be out of a job and skills in about 5-10 years. That’s how fast this is moving.
Even “thinking” jobs are rapidly being replaced by robots, AI, and other programs. Cars, forklifts, cranes, rail, even kitchens/restaurants will replace people with robots in a few short years unless something impedes the progress of the technology.
Yeah, the globalists need to get some new lines.
This article is especially ridiculous because China’s economic rise is entirely due to labor intensive manufacturing. The only reason Jack Ma’s company exists is because so much of the world’s manufacturing has relocated to China. Because China is a deeply corrupt dictatorship with no functioning judicial system and a culture of rip offs, he serves as an intermediary that allows non-Chinese to buy Chinese manufactured products with some protections. This racket would fall apart instantly if China’s share of world manufacturing dropped to 80’s levels. Ma’s wealth and power is dependent on manufacturing staying in China. This is classic advice given in bad faith.
We were being fed this line of crap in the 1980’s.
Trump must be worrying the crap out of Ma.
What a dummy! America is swirling the drain because too many people have bought into this already!
But in the last 50 years the USA has off shored much of it's manufacturing base to Asia and Mexico.
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