Skip to comments.
Oxford Professors: Robots And Computers Could Take Half Our Jobs Within The Next 20 Years
TEC ^
| 09/30/2013
| Michael Snyder
Posted on 09/30/2013 12:37:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 09/30/2013 12:44:51 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
[history]
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-37 next last
To: SeekAndFind
I’m just glad I have a tech job....
for now...
2
posted on
09/30/2013 12:39:49 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: SeekAndFind
I keep saying it -- humans need to put some serious thought to a world in which human labor is largely unneeded. Sure, some professions will continue, some few humans will have meaningful work -- but the vast majority of people will essentially contribute nothing to society.
What is that going to look like?
3
posted on
09/30/2013 12:40:23 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: SeekAndFind
So, Flo from Progressive really does have cause to worry?
4
posted on
09/30/2013 12:40:49 PM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
Computers should replace university professors first. They could certainly be programmed to spew the Leftist line just as 95% of professors do.
6
posted on
09/30/2013 12:41:36 PM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: SeekAndFind
Just you wait, the Dims will be the first to lobby for “Sentient Robot Vopting Rights” and all the robots covered will be the ones built and programmed by State Supported Unions.....
7
posted on
09/30/2013 12:41:41 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: anyone
8
posted on
09/30/2013 12:44:06 PM PDT
by
guido911
(Islamic terrorists are members http://www.freerepublic.com/foof the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
To: ClearCase_guy
I keep saying it -- humans need to put some serious thought to a world in which human labor is largely unneeded. Sure, some professions will continue, some few humans will have meaningful work -- but the vast majority of people will essentially contribute nothing to society.
What is that going to look like?
![](http://www.tylkoprogramy.pl/screen_prog/matrix_code_emulator.gif)
Maybe we can put all the "Takers" into the Matrix while the Makers abandon them by moving to the stars....
9
posted on
09/30/2013 12:44:33 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: rightwingintelligentsia
TWILIGHT ZONE: 1964 --
The Brain Center at Whipple's
![](http://www.rodserling.com/images/pubWhipple01.jpg)
To: SeekAndFind
Robo-receptionist: "Good morning, Mr. Drill. Are you ready for your colonoscopy as mandated in Section 12,304 part 111b, subsection 5248c in the 0bamacare program?"
BtD: "Yeah, sure. So where's the Doc?"
Robo-receptionist: "That function is no longer carried out by human doctors, Mr. Drill, as delineated in Section 31,562, part 214j, subsection 9153h in the 0bamacare program. Now please drop yer britches and get in line."
BtD: "Uh, waidaminnud. That thing is an oil drill."
Robo-receptionist: "We naturally have had to repurpose technology now banned by the EPA. Do not be alarmed. This unit has a clean track record of success."
BtD: "At colonoscopies?"
Robo-receptionist: "At drilling for oil. Spread 'em."
To: SeekAndFind
Especially Oxford professors!
Record their lectures, and can them!
To: SeekAndFind
One of these people is really a robot... guess who...
To: SeekAndFind
Those horrible tractors took almost all the farming jobs!
Ban Tractors!
14
posted on
09/30/2013 12:49:07 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Ted Cruz for President!)
To: SeekAndFind
It is time to outlaw all Technology like in that movie Wizards.
15
posted on
09/30/2013 12:50:15 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
To: ClearCase_guy
What is that going to look like? I'm just going to look out my front window and I'll let you know.
16
posted on
09/30/2013 12:53:20 PM PDT
by
Stentor
("Liberalism seeks out the eccentric to justify control over the normal." nathanbedford)
To: ClearCase_guy
What is that going to look like?
You will have irresistible demands for Government make-work projects to pay people for creating art and such. (the Nancy Pelolsi "Obamacare will free you to pursue your dream of becoming a street mime" paradigm). Of course with that much automated labor the cost of making anything we need may be driven so low it won't matter.
To: SeekAndFind
These proclamations are reminiscent of those made by my AI professor 40 some years ago. He was all lathered up about how AI would put us all out of work in a handful of years. It all seems grossly out of step w/ reality. Oh, wait, college and reality don’t really go together. I think these guys need to get real jobs and the press needs to be more discriminating on what they publish. Anyway, in the Idiocracy we’re slouched to who’s going to have the brains to run all this advanced tech?
18
posted on
09/30/2013 1:01:50 PM PDT
by
556x45
To: txrefugee
Computers should replace university professors first. They could certainly be programmed to spew the Leftist line just as 95% of professors do."Actually I think that's true of most education. From grade school through college.
Get the best instructors, on tape. Then computerize it with quizzes and progress indicators.
There is absolutely no reason we need hundreds of thousands of math instructors, when computers could teach better, cleaner, consistently at the rate of the student, as opposed to the rate of the slowest student.
19
posted on
09/30/2013 1:07:53 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: txrefugee
Computers should replace university professors first. They could certainly be programmed to spew the Leftist line just as 95% of professors do."Actually I think that's true of most education. From grade school through college.
Get the best instructors, on tape. Then computerize it with quizzes and progress indicators.
There is absolutely no reason we need hundreds of thousands of math instructors, when computers could teach better, cleaner, consistently at the rate of the student, as opposed to the rate of the slowest student.
20
posted on
09/30/2013 1:07:54 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-37 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson